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 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, October 9, 2013 (A Journey Through NYC Religions): Anantanand Rambachan is professor of religion at St. Olaf College, Minnesota. This article is taken from his keynote address to the Hindu Caribbean Conference of America in New York on October 6, 2012. The abolition of the slave trade created a labor shortage that threatened the survival…
Source Just as a big banyan tree sprouts from a tiny seed, so the wide universe with names and forms sprouts forth from the heart.— Sri Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950), South Indian mystic
Source NEW YORK, NEW YORK, October 5, 2013 (by Prof. Gregory Berns for the New York Times): For the past two years, my colleagues and I have been training dogs to go in an M.R.I. scanner — completely awake and unrestrained. Our goal has been to determine how dogs’ brains work and, even more important, what they think of us…
Source KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, October 7, 2013 (PRWEB): The sixth Asian Vegetarian Congress which opened here today was told that the global population has the power to help reduce global warming by turning towards a vegetarian diet that would help make a difference to the planet. In his keynote address, prominent Asian Entrepreneur, Dato Sri Vijay Eswaran, said limiting or…
Source PUURS, BELGIUM, October 3, 2013 (Wall Street Journal): HPI Note: From what we see of these events on YouTube (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JlZx2oFFlU), they are a mix of rave and Holi traditions and have little to nothing to do with religion. Holi fell in March in 2013. Teens and 20-somethings congregated in this Belgian hamlet on Aug. 31 to celebrate Holi,…
Source Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived, both inwardly and outwardly.— Swami Sivananda (1887-1963), founder of Divine Life Society
Source BANGALORE, INDIA, October 7, 2013 (BBC): Two widows have been ordained as priests in a centuries-old Hindu temple in the southern Indian city of Mangalore in Karnataka state. Lakshmi and Indira formally began performing rituals at the Kudroli Shree Gokarnanatheshwara Temple on Sunday. Hundreds watched the ceremony and musicians played as the widows entered the temple in a grand…
Source Find the One everywhere and in everything and there will be an end to all pain and suffering.— Sri Anandamayi Ma (1896-1982), Bengali mystic and saint
Source ARA, JHARKHAND, INDIA, October 1, 2013 (New York Times): Jharkhand has been the center of a religious tug-of-war since the 18th century, when a predominantly tribal state saw a flurry of Christian missionaries set up base there. The first Christian missionaries to arrive in the Chotanagpur plateau, which is most of Jharkhand today, were not the Catholics but German…