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 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…
Source KATHMANDU, NEPAL, July 24, 2013 (Himalayan Times): Nepal’s royal priest (Rajguru) Madhav Prasad Bhattarai was allegedly harassed at the main entrance of Jagannath Temple in Puri of Orissa yesterday. Times of India reported that Rajguru Bhattarai was harassed by a police constable, who, “suspecting his religion,” did not let him enter the famous Hindu shrine. The incident took place…
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 Are you depressed? Remember, within you is the Power. If you will but release a fraction of it, you can make the impossible possible.— Dada J.P. Vaswani
Source TAMIL NADU, INDIA, July 22, 2013 (The Hindu): “I have known girls (friends and relatives) of our community to fall in love with boys from other communities and marry them. It not only affected them but also their families that were pushed to shame from which they were unable to recover even many years after the marriage,” says P.…
Source THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS, June 29, 2013 (Nieuwsbank): Following an intensive two years renovation the Hindu Sewa Dhaam Center in the Hague, Laakkwartier (Spoorwijk), opened its doors officially on June 29, 2013. The total project cost US$2.8 million and was funded entirely by private donations. Thanks to the eleven brand new domes of an Indian design, Sewa Dhaam is the…
Source The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. When egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon you.— Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa (1836-1886), guru of Swami Vivekananda