Source INDIA, October 18, 2013 (domain-b.com): India and Hungary have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote and develop traditional systems of medicine, especially the Indian system of Ayurveda. India has already signed such agreements with Malaysia and Trinidad and Tobago and is in the process of signing agreements with Russia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Serbia and Mexico in…
Source BARISAL, BANGLADESH, October 12, 2013 (The Daily Star): The fifth annual reception for “Pauls and Kumars” (sculptors and artisans of statues) was held in Barisal city yesterday with a call to patronize these traditional statue makers, mainstream them into society, and give them professional recognition. “Mritshilpi Sammelon O Sammanona Udjapon Parishad,” an association in Barisal promoting the hard-up, unsung…
Source DHAKA, BANGLADESH, Octoer 15, 2013 (The Daily Star): The five-day-long Durga Puja, the greatest of all Hindu festivals, ended yesterday with solemn immersion of the murthis of the goddess Durga across the country. Thousands of Hindus in the capital marched with spectacular truck processions carrying murthis of Durga towards the Buriganga for immersion. The young and the elderly joined…
Source The whole world is your school. See that all are you. You are the commander. You are the Commander-in-Chief! All are commanders; there is no greater or lesser. All are God. God sees God, God talks to God.— Satguru Yogaswami (1872-1964), Sri Lanka’s most revered contemporary mystic
Source Life is meant for God-realization. If you die without attaining God-realization, your life is in vain. Even having one hundred gurus will not help, unless the disciple has a great desire for liberation and tries to get rid of all that stands in the way.— Swami Chidananda (1916-2008), President of Divine Life Society
Source KARACHI, PAKISTAN, October 13, 2014 (Business Standard): Hindus in Pakistan celebrated the community-based Durga Puja festival in one of the country’s oldest temples here. The 150-year-old Swami Narayan Mandir is located in the violence-prone old quarter of Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city. “The Durga Puja was completed on Saturday after being held for nine days and is a big occasion…
Source DHAKA, BANGLADESH, October 14, 2013 (Dhaka Tribune): The five-day-long Hindu festival of Durga Puja will come to an end today through the celebration of Vijaya Dashami, in which the main ritual is the immersion of Durga statues in rivers. Devotees will bring out Vijaya Dashami processions carrying statues of the deity Durga and her children Lakshmi, Saraswati, Kartik and…
Source Do you realize now the sacred significance and the supreme importance of the guru’s role in the evolution of man? It was not without reason that the India of the past carefully tended and kept alive the lamp of guru-tattva. It is therefore not without reason that India, year after year, age after age, commemorates anew this ancient concept…
Source MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA, October 13, 2013 (BBC): Some 91 pilgrims, mostly women and children, have been killed in a stampede at a Hindu festival in central India, local officials have said. Many were crushed after panic broke out on a bridge near the Ratangarh temple in Madhya Pradesh state. Others died when they jumped from the bridge. Officials said…
Source BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, October 13, 2013 (Times of India): Organizers clearing debris from broken puja pandals, government officials clearing roads of snapped branches of trees and people queuing up before water tankers summed up the scene at Bhubaneswar and Cuttack a day after severe cyclone Phailin made landfall near Gopalpur. Puja pandals (temporary road-side temples set up for a festival)…