Source ABBOTSFORD, BC, CANADA, May 3, 2011 (The Times of Canada) :An Abbotsford Hindu temple suffered an estimated $250,000 in damages after a fire on Wednesday morning. Abbotsford Fire Rescue Service was called out to the Fraser Valley Hindu Society Temple at around 10:45 a.m. Fire crews arrived to find smoke and fire coming from the rear of the one-storey…
Source The learned have prescribed penance for the murderer of a pious man, a drunkard, a thief or for one who has violated a solemn vow. But there is no pardon for the ungrateful.— The Panchatantra
Press Release MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, May 2011: In continuation of a 14 year tradition, this year the ICCT Memphis temple is performing Ashtottara Satakundatmaka Sri Rama Raksha Ashtakshari Maha Yagnam from May 25th to May 29th. The Yagnam is being performed with 108 Homakunds and 108 priests coming from various parts of the world and is under the blessings and guidance…
Source SOUTH AFRICA, April 23, 2011 (The Times Live): Thousands of Hindu devotees will visit temples this weekend in accordance with a practice started by indentured Indian sugar-cane labourers about 100 years ago. The Isipingo Mariamman Temple and the Shri Mariammen Temple in Mount Edgecombe will be bustling as devotees from across the country pay homage during the Easter week…
Source NEW DELHI, INDIA April 18, 2011 (Telegraph India): Mariners from India’s east coast exploited monsoon winds to sail to southeast Asia more than 2,000 years ago, an archaeologist has proposed, challenging a long-standing view that a Greek navigator had discovered monsoon winds. Sila Tripati at the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa, has combined archaeological, meteorological, and literary data…
Source The world is divided into two kinds of people: the wise and the otherwise.
Source A wicked person, though powerless himself, instigates others to injure people. A piece of stone, itself incapable of cutting, whets the edge of a sword. — Subhasita Ratnabhandagaram
Source Life should be dynamic, full of movement, flowing endlessly like the mighty Ganges. Life’s movement should be channelled in the right direction. Life becomes a burden for many people because it has lost its dynamism. For them life is not like a flowing river. It is a static, turbid puddle.Understand that action gives movement to life, knowledge gives it…
Source When we engage every moment without the cares and fears of the beyond, we are able to harness the spirit of sadhana, and every moment is filled with Divinity. Swamini Mayatitananda Saraswati, spiritual head of Wise Earth Monastery and Mother Om Mission, Candler, North Carolina
Source Knowing others is wisdom; knowing the Self is enlightenment. Mastering others requires force; mastering the Self needs strength.— Lao-Tsu (ca 600 bce), Chinese philosopher who inspired Taoism