Source SHIMLA, INDIA, October 16,2012 (Indo-Asian News Service): Tens of thousands of devotees assembled in different parts of Himachal Pradesh Tuesday and offered prayers on the onset of the nine-day Navratra, considered by Hindus to be an auspicious period. “We are expecting the arrival of 50,000 people daily at the Naina Devi temple during the festival,” temple office Sukhdev Thakur…
Source GEORGE TOWN, MALAYSIA, October 16, 2012 (The Star): Thousands of devotees, carrying candles and incense, thronged the Nine Emperor Gods (Kew Ong Yeah) temples in Penang to seek blessings and in typical multi-religious style, Hindu devotees marked their ‚ÄúNavarathri‚Äù (nine nights) vegetarian festival. Over in Burma Road leading to Tao Bo Kong Temple, there was a bumper-to-bumper crawl stretching…
Source To give love is true freedom; to demand love is pure slavery.— Swami Chinmayananda
Source GAYA, BIHAR, INDIA, October 14, 2012 (ANI): Hindu devotees lit earthen lamps over the weekend as an obligatory duty ahead of the annual ancestor worshipping ritual of Pind Daan, which falls during the Pitr-Paksha period (16-lunar day period as per Hindu calendar). Pitr-paksha generally falls in the month of September or October every year. Devotees were seen lighting earthen…
Source OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, October 13, 2012 (Contra Costa Times): Five years after a few pioneering families began trickling into East Oakland and Alameda, a burgeoning Bhutanese exile community is happy to have left refugee camps in Nepal but still struggling to adjust to Bay Area life, according to the first report to survey their well-being. “The community is still trying…
Source The more we are conscious of God’s presence in daily life, the more intense is the fullness of the joy we experience. God means infinitely more to our existence than the light of the sun means to the plants and trees.— Swami Omkarananda, (1930-2000), founder of Omkarananda Ashram, Rishikesh
Source KUMBAKONAM, INDIA, October 15, 2012 (India Times): The Union minister for culture, Kumari Selja on Sunday visited famous temples around Kumbakonam and said that the culture ministry has included five sites in Tamil Nadu, including the famous Lord Sri Ranganathar temple in Srirangam, in the tentative list for UNESCO world heritage status. She was on a heritage tour to…
Source New Delhi/Faizabad/Ramgarh, Oct. 16 (Asian News International): Devout Hindus queued up at various temples across India to mark the beginning of the nine-day long festival of Navratri, which is held in honor of the Goddess Durga which is observed twice a year, once in April and the second time in October. A majority of Hindu devotees fast during these…
Source Man arrives at immortality by breaking beyond the limitations not only of his physical self, but of his mental and his ordinary psychic nature into the highest plane and supreme ether of the Truth: for there is the foundation of immortality and the native seat of the triple infinite.— Sri Aurobindo (1879-1950)
Source COIMBATORE, INDIA, October 1, 2012 (India Times): It was a defining moment for Coimbatore’s dalits when several of them entered the 120-year-old Mariamman temple at Kalapatti for the first time on Sunday with the support of the Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front (TNUEF) and Communist Party of India Marxist (CPM) activists. Located three miles away from Coimbatore airport, the…