Daily Inspiration
Source To define God is grinding what is already ground; for He is the only being we know.— Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), founder of the Ramakrishna Mission
Dr. Koenraad Elst on the California Textbook Controversy
Source BELGIUM, June 29, 2013 (Hindu Human Rights): HPI Note: Following is the introduction to Dr. Elst lengthy and insightful analysis of the 2005-2006 fight over the portrayal of Hinduism in the 6th grade textbooks in use in California schools. Already the younger generation asks what the California textbook affair was. Now that California has been endowed with a Hindu…
California Judge Rejects Claim That Yoga In Schools Is Religious Instruction
Source LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, July 1, 2013 (LA Times): A San Diego Superior Court judge Monday rejected a claim by parents in the Encinitas elementary school system that teaching yoga in the schools is an improper attempt at religious indoctrination. The ruling by Judge John Meyer, who heard the case without a jury, means that the Encinitas Union School District…
Daily Inspiration
Source Enquire: ‘Who am I?’ and you will find the answer. Look at a tree: from one seed arises a huge tree; from it comes numerous seeds, each one of which in its turn grows into a tree. No two fruits are alike. Yet it is one life that throbs in every particle of the tree. So, it is the…
Issues Bringing In Hindu Priests, Musicians to Malaysia
https://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/233838 MALAYASIA, June 24, 2013 (Malaysia Hindu Sangam Press Release): The Malaysia Hindu Sangam has been receiving numerous complaints from local Hindu temples relating to the problems these temples face in applying, renewing or adding the duration of the professional visit pass for their temple priests, musicians and sculptors to the Department of Immigration and Ministry of Home Affairs. Based…
Amarnath Yatra Begins Amid Tight Security
Source SRINAGAR,, INDIA June 28, 2013( The Hindu): The annual Amarnath Yatra began on Friday amid tight security, with pilgrims starting their journey for the 3880-meter-high cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas. Amidst chants of Bam Bam Bole, the first batch of pilgrims started on the arduous 45-km trek from traditional Pahalgam route, and 13-km from Baltal simultaneously, in the…
Daily Inspiration
Source The fragrance of the flower is never borne against the breeze, but the fragrance of human virtues diffuses itself everywhere.— Ramayana
Kalakad Sundaram Sathi Passes Away in Toronto
Source TORONTO, CANADA, June 25, 2013 (Toronto Star): Kalakad Sundaram Sathi died peacefully at home, surrounded by his loving family, after a brief but courageous experience with cancer. He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Shanthi, his daughters Nalini Valliere (David), Sulekha Sathi (Steven O’Rourke) and Nandini Sathi (Neal Weinstein). He leaves his five grandchildren: Nisha, Yashoda, Maya,…
South Asians Advised to Exercise More to Lower Diabetes Risk
Source GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, June 28, 2013 (ANI): People from South Asian countries like from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are urged to exercise more than white Europeans to achieve the same levels of fitness and reduce their risk of diabetes. Researchers at the University of Glasgow have found that lower fitness levels in middle-aged men of South Asian origin are contributing…
Court Forbids Management from Purchasing Cars with Temple Offerings
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…