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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…

Source A Swiss devotee visited Ramana Maharishi (1879-1950), the sage of Arunachala. She was disturbed from having a vision of Siva. “Is He not the Destroyer?” she asked. The mystic replied, “Yes, He is the destroyer of sorrows. Siva is the embodiment of auspiciousness. Have you got a form? That is why you think of Siva’s form. The Self is…

Source WASHINGTON D.C., U.S., June 18, 2013 (Care 2): Washington D.C. will soon be the home of a piece of yoga history. The Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian’s Museums of Asian Art will host the first large exhibition of yoga-related art. The show, titled “Yoga: The Art of Transformation,” takes a look back at yoga’s history as far back as…