Source SAO PAULA , BRAZIL(by Shoban Saxena, Times of India): Alameda Sarutaia is a quiet street just off Avenida Paulista, the main avenue that runs through the center of this megalopolis. Cross a couple of buildings, you come across an old villa and the sounds coming from inside, tabla beats mixing with the strains of sitar and an Indian voice…
Hinduism Today NEW DELHI, INDIA, July 15th, 2013(Rajiv Malik, Hinduism Today Correspondent): “Government control of Hindu temples should end and Hindus themselves should be allowed to manage them.”- Swami Dayananda Saraswati. At a day-long symposium on the subject- “Government Control Of Temples- Constitutional Issues,” organized by the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha [HDAS] at New Delhi’s prestigious India International Centre on…
Source UNITED KINGDOM, July 11, 2013 (The Independent): Landmark legislation to ban caste discrimination in Britain is being deliberately thwarted by the Conservative equalities ministers in charge of getting it on the statute book, a leaked document indicates. Discrimination on the basis of caste was outlawed in April as part of the Equality Act, after Business Secretary Vince Cable secured…
Source Self-surrender is the supreme condition of winning the universal life. Men will part with their wealth, their rights, and even their lives, at the call of religion. But when you ask them to exchange their human self for the divine self, which is exactly what all great religions want them to do, they refuse. For the wine of mortality…
Source To give love is true freedom; to demand love is pure slavery.— Swami Chinmayananda
Source TORONTO, CANADA, June 10, 2013 (Press Release): The 8th annual Hindu Mandir Executives’ Conference (HMEC 2013) will be held in Toronto from September 20-21, 2013. HMEC is the largest annual conference for Hindu Organizations in North America with an average of 100 temples participating across the USA and Canada. The theme of this years’ conference is “The Role of…
HPI KERALA, INDIA, July 12, 2013, (by GK Nair for HPI): The Santhananda Mutt Rishijnana Sadhanalayam Trust, has embarked on a project to set up a Sadhanalayam complex on the summit of a rocky hill facing the Achankovil River in the outskirts of Pathanamthitta town on the way to Sabarimala. It is the fulfillment of a long cherished wish to…
Source At a national and international level, we will enjoy more peace as we become more tolerant. Religious leaders can help by teaching their congregations how to live in a world of differences without feeling threatened, without forcing their ways or will on others. World bodies can make laws which deplore and work to prevent crimes of violence. It is…
Religion News Service NAGALAND, INDIA, July 2013 (RNS): Christian groups in India’s northeastern state of Nagaland are working to quell the rapid growth of Satanism after reports that thousands of teenagers from churches had taken up devil worship in recent months. The Vatican’s Fides news agency recently reported that more than 3,000 young “worshipers of Satan” have been identified in…
Source HOUSTON, TEXAS, July 3, 2013 (Indo American News): When the parents of two young Hindu American boys contacted community leaders for help in getting answers from school authorities about the incessant bullying their children were facing at their Humble district school, the Hindu community rallied quickly to support the family and help find solutions to prevent such suffering from…