Source KAUAI, HAWAII, June 18, 2013 (HPI): The July/August/September, 2013, edition of Hinduism’s award-winning spiritual magazine, Hinduism Today, has been released in digital form and is now available for free on your desktop. You can read articles online or download the PDF or ePub and enjoy it on your iPad. We broke most of our rules in this one. And…
Source One does not suddenly reach a point where desire goes away. Desire is life. Desire can be directed according to the personal will. Through sadhana you can gain mastery over all the forces of your mind and body.— Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001), founder of Hinduism Today
Source UNITED KINGDOM, June 14, 2013 (BBC): India’s population is forecast to continue to grow until 2050, according to the United Nations. India looks set to overtake China as the world’s most populous country from 2028, according to the United Nations. At that point, both nations will number 1.45 billion people each. Subsequently India’s population will continue to grow until…
Source BUTTERWORTH, MALAYSIA, June 14, 2013 (nst.com): A 100,000 strong crowd — largely made up of Hindu devotees, while people of other faiths included locals and tourists from Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Nepal and India — thronged the Arulmigu Sree Maha Mariamman Devasthanam temple for the annual seven-day fire-walking festival here recently. The festival started with a fire-walking ritual…
Source By practicing tolerance of those who insult us, we will feel honor and insult as the same. Just as we feel good when someone praises us, we should feel just as good when we are insulted. Stability in honor or insult is the ability to still have love for our aggressor.— Sri Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Spiritual Guru of BAPS…
Source JAMAICA, NEW YORK, June 1, 2013 (press release): The 2nd Hindu Mandir Priests’ Conference concluded at the Shri Surya Narayan Mandir here in Jamaica. The Conference was hosted by the Shri Surya Narayan Mandir, in collaboration with the Bhavaanee Maa Mandir, the New York Sanatana Mandir and the United Community Mandir under the auspices of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad…
Source AIZAWL, INDIA, May 23, 2013 (Mizo News): The Assam Rifles temple inside the Assam Rifle Compound in Aizawl was attacked on Thursday morning around 1:30 am with a gelatin bomb. No casualties have been reported in the incident. However, the bomb destroyed 26 glass panes, sources said. As soon as the report reached the police they rushed to the…
Source You may develop a thousand virtues and be reckoned as the greatest in the land. But the lotus of your heart will not blossom until you receive the grace of the Guru, the grace of God!— Dada Sadhu Vaswani
Source Capetown, South Africa, June 5 2013( SABC News): One of the iconic artworks of people’s painter, Vladimir Tretchikoff, has been sold to an unknown buyer for US$138,000 at an auction in Cape Town, on Tuesday. The painter lived in South Africa from 1946 to his death in 2006. The portrait, known as “The Hindu Dancer,” bears the image of…
Source G-o-d, d-o-g. both the same. Top and bottom. See God in everything. You must do that!— Satguru Yogaswami (1872-1964), Sri Lanka’s revered contemporary mystic