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…
Source You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God’s creative principle works in you.— Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), founder of Self Realization Fellowship
Press Release CANADA, October 2, 2013 (Canadian Public Opinion Poll): The last of three national surveys about values and religion in Canada shows English and French Canadians most favorable towards Christianity and least favorable towards Islam. Favorability of all religions is down since 2009. The results from the last of three comprehensive national surveys about religion, religious freedom and values…
Source FIJI, November 19, 2013 (Fiji Sun): The Vishwa Hindu Parishad Fiji says comments by Cook Islands bishop, Tutai Pere, condemning Diwali celebrations held in the island nation are saddening. VHP Fiji national president Jay Dayal said the bishop was forgetting the values of Christianity. “At the same time, we in Fiji are fortunate and so ever thankful to our…
Source There are three kinds of devotees. The inferior devotee says, “God is out there” and thinks God is different from His creation. The mediocre devotee says, “God is antaryami, the inner guide who dwells in everyone’s heart;” thus the mediocre devotee sees God within. But the superior devotee sees that God alone is everything, for He has become the…