Source ALLAHABAD, INDIA, January 2013 (The Hindu): It’s two days to the first auspicious dip at the Kumbh mela. The fair’s lost-and-found bureau is not open for business — the tin sheds and canvas tents are up, but it isn’t yet hooked up to the 4,000-odd public address speakers spread around the confluence of the Ganga and the Yamuna that…
Source The sages, being filled with universal love for all beings, did not want to keep their enlightenment to themselves. They declared to all: “O mortals, striving and struggling upon this Earth plane, weeping, wailing, buffeted by the vicissitudes of life: we have come upon a great discovery. There is something beyond these appearances, these vanishing names and forms that…
KAUAI, HAWAII, January 30, 2013: Hinduism Today’s team, correspondent Rajiv Malik and photographer Thomas Kelly are settled in for the next ten days at the Kumbha Mela. They report it is an inspiring event spread over a huge area–for a few days it will be one of the largest cities in the world! We are trying to reach a wide…
UNITED KINGDOM, January 30, 2013 (BBC): Ditching meat and fish in favour of a vegetarian diet can have a dramatic effect on the health of your heart, research suggests. A study of 44,500 people in England and Scotland showed vegetarians were 32% less likely to die or need hospital treatment as a result of heart disease. Differences in cholesterol levels,…
Source PEGOGNAGA, ITALY, January 27, 2013 (Gazzetta Di Mantova): The two-day festival of the Hindu community of the Po River Lowlands began on Saturday with the “Shoba Yatra,” the procession of the divine statues, followed by a crowd of devotees through the streets of Pegognaga. The religious event, which was promoted by the “Shri Hari Om Mandir” in collaboration with…
Source UNITED STATES, January 2013 (gawker.com): A Taco Bell ad chastising party-poopers who bring veggie platters to Game Day has been pulled following a Twitter campaign launched by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. “Veggies on game day is like punting on fourth and one — it’s a cop out,” the ad’s narrator sneers, before touting Taco Bell’s…
Source GEORGE TOWN, MALAYSIA, January 25, 2013 (Free Malaysia Today): About a million people are expected to throng the Waterfall vicinity here to celebrate the four-day annual Thaipusam festival, the state’s biggest Hindu event of the year. The Waterfall area is where several temples of Lord Muruga, the Nattukottai Chettiar community’s Sri Thandayuthabani Kovil and the Balathandayuthabani Kovil, are located.…
Source Before I came on this earth, I was the same. As a little girl, I was the same. I grew into womanhood, but still I was the same. And, even now, I am the same. Though the dance of creation will ever change around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same.— Sri Anandamayi Ma, (1896-1982),…
Source SOUTH JORDAN, UTAH, January 19, 2013 (Deseret News): When a member of Utah Gov. Gary Herbert’s staff first contacted Indra Neelameggham about giving the invocation for the governor’s inaugural ceremony earlier this month, one thought came quickly to her mind. “You must be looking for our priest,” said Neelameggham, one of the stalwarts of the Sri Ganesha Hindu Temple…
Source Years ago, I used to walk for miles to meet my Guru. The distance appeared no longer than a few furlongs.— Dada J.P. Vaswani