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
Source NEW ZEALAND, May 29, 2013 (Scoop Independent News): Rotorua District Community Awards were presented last night in recognition of outstanding achievements and outstanding service to the Rotorua community. This year Murali Krishna Magesan, a volunteer of Hindu Youth New Zealand, the youth division of Hindu Council of New Zealand, was one of the youth recognized by the Rotorua District…
Source NEW YORK, NEW YORK, June 3, 2013 (Wall Street Journal): Vegetarians live longer than meat-eaters, according to a study published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, a Journal of the American Medical Association. The authors tracked 73,308 members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for almost six years. The church is known for promoting a vegetarian diet, though not all of…
Source WASHINGTON, D.C., June 10, 2013 (PTI): Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, has gifted an imposing 16-foot-high statue of Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of education and wisdom, to Washington DC. The Goddess’ statue, on top of a lotus, stands in front of the Indonesian Embassy just a block away from the Indian Embassy and…