Source SHIMLA, INDIA,June 26, 2013 (Zee News): Temple offerings are for providing better facilities to devotees and not for buying vehicles for temple officials, the Himachal Pradesh High Court has ruled. It has restrained the functionaries of the Chintpurni temple, a popular Hindu shrine in Una district, from using the vehicles purchased from the temple funds. Temple officer Subhash Chand…
Source INDIA, June 27, 2013 (Headlines Today): The TV channel Headlines Today recreates flooding of the Mandakini river through Kedarnath in this program. Experts tell the exact sequence of how the flood broke loose above the Kedar dome at 12,000 feet in Uttarakhand, then moved down the river destroying first Kedarnath, then each village along its banks, all with no…
Source Like a tortoise withdrawing five limbs into its shell, those who restrain the five senses in one life will find safe shelter for seven.— Tirukkural 126
Source SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, June 26, 2013 (Union Tribune): Lengthy closing arguments in the trial challenging a yoga program in Encinitas public schools pushed back a ruling to Thursday at the earliest, a judge said Tuesday. The case is believed to be the first of its kind to test whether yoga is a secular exercise or a form of Hindu-based…
Source ILLINOIS, U.S., June 24, 2013 (The Southern): The first Hindu temple in Carbondale, Southern Illinois, represents more than a house of prayer for hundreds of people. It also establishes a center for a community to better define itself and perhaps grow, said several people celebrating the temple’s inauguration Sunday. The 4,000 square-foot temple not only gives hundreds of practicing…
Source GUPTKASHI, UTTARAKHAND, INDIA, June 27, 2013: As the mammoth rescue operations in the Uttarakhand disaster neared completion, around 2,500 survivors remained to be evacuated in Badrinath and Hershil Thursday but concerns grew over the fate of 3,000 people who were reported missing. Amid fears of epidemic outbreak, the focus shifted to retrieving bodies buried in debris and expediting mass…
Source If you have not seen your own Self, if you have not pierced the knots of your Heart and washed away the filth of your mind, then what does it matter if you are a human being?— Kabir
Source NEW YORK, NEW YORK, June 20, 2013 (DNAinfo): The smoldering heat was nothing to thousands of yogis who turned out in Times Square Wednesday for the world’s largest Bikram Yoga class. The 92-degree weather was substantially less than the 105 degrees — and 40 percent humidity — of a typical indoor Bikram class. More than 14,000 yogis spread out…
Source MADRID, SPAIN, June 15, 2013 (El Faro Digital): The priest Juan Carlos Ramchandani, of Ceuta, successfully concluded participation in the first meeting of Hindus of Spain on June 8 and 9 in Madrid, where he served as coordinator. The conference, one of the great aspirations of the community in recent years, benefited from presentations and panel discussions by leading…
Source NEW DELHI, June 26, 2013 (TNN): The most revered symbol of Lord Shiva at Kedarnath–the “bhog murthi” or the icon of the deity that must be offered daily in what is called its akhand puja (unbroken worship)–has also fallen victim to the devastating flood. But its custodian, the priest Vageshling from Davanagre, Karnataka, waded through mud and corpses to…