Source BALI, INDONESIA, November 22, 2013 (opposingviews.com): A Christian woman was sentenced to a prison term of 14 months in Bali, where the majority of people practice Hinduism, after she called offerings “dirty and disgusting,” the Supreme Court of Indonesia announced. “The defendant Rusgiani, who is also known as Yohana, has been proven validly and convincingly guilty of purposefully and…
Source Enquire: ‘Who am I?’ and you will find the answer. Look at a tree: from one seed arises a huge tree; from it comes numerous seeds, each one of which in its turn grows into a tree. No two fruits are alike. Yet it is one life that throbs in every particle of the tree. So, it is the…
Himalayan Academy KAUAI, HAWAII, November 23, 2013: Himalayan Academy is producing a series of books for Hindu youth and invites both experienced and aspiring writers alike to contribute. We’re offering US$100 to the person who submits the best short story illustrating the character trait of loyalty from a Hindu point of view. This is a part of a series on…
Source UNITED KINGDOM, November 2013 (BBC): For many people, the main concern in a yoga class is whether they are breathing correctly or their legs are aligned. But for others, there are lingering doubts about whether they should be there at all, or whether they are betraying their religion. Suspicions about yoga are shared by many Muslims, Christians and Jews…
Source INDIA, November 21, 2013 (The Hindu): Dressed in black cloths and with the customary sacred bundle (irumudikkettu) on their head, a 14-member team of Ayyappa devotees from Russia reached the holy hillock for the 12th consecutive year on Tuesday night. Induchoodan, aka Iliya Padukova, the team leader and Guruswami, said he, along with a group of devotees from St.…
Source One who is established in a comfortable posture while concentrating on the inner Self naturally becomes immersed in the Heart’s ocean of bliss.— Siva Sutras III, 16
Source WASHINGTON, D.C., November 21, 2013 (Hindu American Foundation): Persecution of Hindus and religious minorities in Bangladesh took center stage at a Congressional hearing entitled Bangladesh in Turmoil: A Nation on the Brink, hosted by the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific yesterday. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affair Committee, and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), who…
Source The sages, being filled with universal love for all beings, did not want to keep their enlightenment to themselves. They declared to all: “O mortals, striving and struggling upon this Earth plane, weeping, wailing, buffeted by the vicissitudes of life: we have come upon a great discovery. There is something beyond these appearances, these vanishing names and forms that…
Source USA, November 19, 2013 (Wall Street Journal): Since the mid-1990s, the share of people 65 years old and over living with their children or other relatives in the United States has risen from around 6.6% to 7.3% in 2013, according to an analysis of data from the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey by Jed Kolko, chief economist at Trulia,…
Source AUSTRALIA, November 2013 (press release): Bushfires raging in the Blue Mountains around Sydney as early as October is being seen by Hindu community leaders as a call to action. This call is the subject of the Hindu Climate Change Action Kit, jointly published by the Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC) and the Hindu Council of Australia, and…