Source USA, September 23, 2011: [HPI note: Quite some time has passed since The Atlantic, a literary and cultural commentary magazine for the intellectual elite, first used the word “Hindoo.” It was in 1857, the year the magazine started, used in the context of a commentary on British colonialism. The Hindu — or “Hindoo” — religion was mentioned as such…
Source JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, September 16, 2011 (deccanherald.com): In response to growing interest, India will set up Ayurveda chairs at two South African universities by early next year. “The chair in Ayurveda at the Durban University of Technology and one in Unani at the University of the Western Cape will help institutionalize training in this very important field,” said Indian…
Source You don’t want to see God. You must feel God. God is you. Just be that.— Satguru Siva Yogaswami (1872-1964) of Sri Lanka
Source USA, September 25, 2011: Himalayan Academy’s panchangams for over 240 cities are now available for 99 cents, in both pdf and iCalendar formats. iCalendar panchangams may be imported into iCal and Google calendars. The 2012-2013 calendar begins on May 7, 2012 and ends on April 26, 2013. Click on source, above.
Source LEICESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND, September 7, 2011 (Leicester Mercury): Some schools in Leicestershire are asking the Government to change a requirement that they provide collective Christian worship every day. Current law requires all state schools to provide a daily act of collective worship for their pupils, such as a prayer or hymns, which must be wholly or mainly of a Christian…
Source JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, September 16, 2011 (deccanherald.com): In response to growing interest, India will set up Ayurveda chairs at two South African universities by early next year. “The chair in Ayurveda at the Durban University of Technology and one in Unani at the University of the Western Cape will help institutionalize training in this very important field,” said Indian…
Source Science sometimes runs the risk of not seeing the truth, because it does not want to know about miracles.— Jacques Cousteau, explorer
Press Release September 7, 2011, (by Juli L. Gittinger): Over two thousand people gathered at Montreal’s Palais de Congres for the 2nd Global Conference on World Religions after 9/11 to listen to a variety of speakers and scholars address the ongoing project to educate and inform the public about religious traditions other than their own. Starting off the morning with…
Source NAGPUR, INDIA, SEPTEMBER 12, 2011: No housewife remained coy and no schoolgirl was bashful when the city saw off its favorite guest on Sunday: Lord Ganesha, who came for His festival. Instead everybody had been dancing and shouting chants requesting Ganapati Bappa to visit them soon the next year. Smeared with gulal, swaying to the beats of sandal, the…
Source PARIS, FRANCE, September 15, 2011 (AFP): After ten years of work, publisher Diane Selliers has launched an impressive work, the “Ramayana”, a masterpiece of Indian literature, illustrated with 660 miniatures selected from museums and collectors around the world. It comes as seven volumes in a red box, carefully wrapped in a protective bag “like sacred objects,” said Selliers. “This…