Source MIDDLETOWN, MD, USA, May 20, 2011: Thousands of people around the country have spent the last few days taking to the streets and saying final goodbyes before Saturday, Judgment Day, when they expect to be absorbed into heaven in a process known as The Rapture. Nonbelievers, they hold, will be left behind to perish along with the world over…
Source NEW YORK, May 3, 2011: The population of the world, long expected to stabilize just above 9 billion in the middle of the century, will instead keep growing and may hit 10.1 billion by the year 2100, the United Nations projected in a report released Tuesday. Growth in Africa remains so high that the population there could more than…
Source CHENNAI, INDIA, May 9, 2011: Keeping alive the legacy of Swami Chinmayananda’s service to mankind, the Chinmaya Mission of Chennai has established an informative archive comprising an audio-visual exhibit and a rare collection of images on the life and works of Swami Chinmayananda. The project, “Call of the Rishi,” is an initiative by his devotees to express their gratitude…
Source The food of the soul is silence. If we don’t practice silence, we are starving ourselves.— Dada J.P. Vaswani, spiritual head of Sadhu Vaswani mission
Source UNITED KINGDOM, May 4, 2011: “Love comes after the marriage,” says Murugavel Janakiraman, the founder and chief executive of one of India’s largest matrimonial website companies, BharatMatrimony. The entrepreneur believes it is a philosophy ingrained in Indian culture and one of the reasons Indians place more importance on matching other “various criteria” before tying the knot – “religion, language……
Source NAIROBI, KENYA, March 30, 2011: The Hindu Council of Kenya officials led by chairman Vanraj Sarvaiya said that, as a patriotic community, they would strive to improve Kenyans’ welfare. “We are in the social arena where our activities include poverty alleviation programs such as paying fees for deserving cases, contributing towards famine relief, supporting charitable organisations and extending medical…
Source LONDON, ENGLAND, May 1, 2011: In less than a decade, Ayurveda has made a huge impact on many Londoners as more of them turn away from invasive allopathic treatment. But a new ruling comes as a blow to both the industry and patients, making it hard to obtain the medicines. Director of Ayuspa Ayurvedic centre Muneet Dohil said, “We…
Source JAMMU, INDIA, May 16, 2011: Jammu got a replica of the famous Ganesh Nandikishwar Temple, located in South Kashmir, today. “We have set up a replica of famous grand Ganesha Temple of south Kashmir’s Hanand Chawalgan area,” Secretary of the Temple Trust Professor O N Koul told reporters here today. Amid prayers, a maha yagya and hymns, a black…
Source Self-surrender is the supreme condition of winning the universal life. Men will part with their wealth, their rights, and even their lives, at the call of religion. But when you ask them to exchange their human self for the divine self, which is exactly what all great religions want them to do, they refuse. For the wine of mortality…
Source SPAIN, May 14, 2011 (HPI): “TORERO, las tres ultimas suertes de Antonio el Macareno,” a 80-minute tragicomic play written by David Desola and Arturo Ruiz and directed by Esteve Ferrer, is now touring Spain. The premise is that a famous bullfighter refuses to enter the bull ring, even though the place is packed with his fans, because he has…