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Source Anger is nothing but an attachment for an object, when expressed towards an obstacle between ourselves and the object of our attachment.— Swami Chinmayananda (1916-1993), founder of Chinmaya Mission

Source BANGLADESH, March 16,2 013 (bdnews24): Miscreants vandalized a Saraswati statue at a temple beside the residence of ruling-party Member of Parliament (MP) Mohammad Atiur Rahman Atique in Sherpur city’s Madhabpur. The Madhabpur Puja Temple committee informed the police about the incident that took place on Friday night. Hindus have been offering prayers at this temple for the past 77…

Source NEW YORK, NEW YORK, March 15, 2013 (New York Times, by Amy Karafin): My two-week trip here last June was my second visit to the Jaffna Peninsula, a 400-square-mile expanse of Technicolor temples and arid, surreally beautiful landscapes in northern Sri Lanka that have only recently opened to tourists after a 26-year civil war. I had traveled there in…

Source There is one thing God cannot do He cannot separate Himself from the soul.— Siva Yogaswami of Jaffna (1872-1964)

Source NEW YORK, U.S., January 17, 2013 (Washington Post): When Uma Mysorekar looks at the members of the new Congress, the Indian immigrant and practicing Hindu can see that, for the first time, there’s someone who shares her ethnicity and someone who shares her faith. To her surprise, they are two different people. Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii is…

Source MUMBAI, INDIA, March 16, 2013 (Times of India): (HPI Note: We are astounded as you are by this report. Perhaps one of our readers can explain what this is about. It appears that the Shiv Mandir trust itself made the claim that Shiva worship is not a religious act in order to receive a tax exemption, and that the…

Source KATHMANDU, NEPAL, March 10, 2013 (My Republica): Around one million Hindu pilgrims visited the Pashupatinath temple on the occasion of Mahashivaratri in the Capital on Sunday. The officials of Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT) said that more Hindu devotees from several other Asian countries visited the temple this year as a result of the positive impression it created about…

Source Of all the scriptures in the world, it is the Vedas alone that declare that even the study of the Vedas is secondary. The real study is “that by which we realize the Unchangeable.” And that is neither reading, nor believing, nor reasoning, but superconscious perception, or samadhi.— Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)

Source ALLAHABAD, INDIA, March 9, 2013 (Raw Story): A record 120 million pilgrims washed away their sins with plunges in an Indian holy river during the world’s biggest religious festival set to end Sunday, officials said. The two-month-long Kumbh Mela Hindu festival celebrated every 12 years at the conjunction of two sacred rivers on the outskirts of the northern Indian…

Source UNITED KINGDOM, March 10, 2013 (India Today): Hindu groups based in the UK have called on the government to enforce stricter disclosure norms after it emerged that many restaurants serving Indian food in Scotland were using the wrong kind of meat. In the wake of the Europe-wide horse meat scandal that is still under investigation, it emerged that more…