Source How can one realize that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. Reality alone will remain, and we will be That.— Sri Ramana Maharishi (1879-1950), South Indian mystic
Source TORONTO, CANADA, July 26, 2013 (Inside Toronto): The glory of Lord Ganesha will be celebrated in Scarborough this Saturday, July 27, as a gigantic hand-carved chariot circles the parking lot of a Kennedy Road temple. As part of an annual Hindu Chariot Festival, the Deity will emerge from Sri Varasiththi Vinaayagar at 9 a.m. and ride outside for about…
Source DURNTEN, SWITZERLAND, July 20,2013 (Bezirk Hinwil): For more than a week now the fourth annual festival of Sri Vishnuthurkkai-Amman temple in Durnten has been in full swing. As in previous years, several hundred faithful were expected daily. The core of the festival is the homage of the Gods. The Deity that is the focus of worship may differ in…
Source LONDON, ENGLAND, July 26, 2013 (Express): A Historic Hindu temple which was the first of its kind to be built in Europe is celebrating its momentous Silver Jubilee in Willesden, London this week. People from as far afield as Australia, India and America travelled to the UK for the 25th anniversary of the landmark Shree Swaminarayan Temple. The temple…
Source In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit man’s stupidity.
Source LONDON,July 26, 2013, (Press Trust of India): Scientists have found evidence that human sleep patterns are timed to the phases of the Moon, and that people sleep 20 minutes less on an average during a full Moon. Many people complain about poor sleep around the full Moon and the study offers some of the first convincing scientific evidence to…
Source KUALA LUMPUR , MALAYSIA, July,25, 2013(AFP): A Malaysian court on Thursday ruled against the 2009 conversion of three Hindu children to Islam without their mother’s knowledge, a verdict welcomed by non-Muslim groups. A high court in the northern city of Ipoh declared the conversion of Indira Gandhi’s children, now aged five, 15 and 16, by their father to be…
Source A person’s growth begins with dissatisfaction. Not content with the world, he seeks satisfaction by prayers to God; this purifies his mind and he longs to know God more than to satisfy his carnal desires. Then God’s grace begins to manifest. God will take the form of a guru and appear to the devotee, to teach him Truth so…
Source QUANZHOU, CHINA, July 2013 (The Hindu): For the residents of Chedian, a few thousand-year-old village of muddy by-lanes and old stone courtyard houses, she is just another form of Guanyin, the female Bodhisattva who is venerated in many parts of China. But the Goddess that the residents of this village pray to every morning, as they light incense sticks…
Source PURI, INDIA, July 24, 2013 (Deccan Hearld): The woman constable involved in an incident with Madhav Prasad Bhattarai was suspended pending an inquiry. The woman constable stopped him and started scolding him, presuming him to be a non-Hindu and foreign national. The incident has turned out to be a major embarrassment for the Puri temple administration as the shrine…