Source BANGKOK, THAILAND, April 11, 2011 (Bangkok Post): Girish Giridhara’s arms are tattooed with Hindu Gods, Goddesses and sacred mantras. The spiritual designs are intricate but also hardly surprising for a man who once trained to be a priest. The 36-year-old tattoo artist was an exhibitor at the Indian Ink tattoo convention. The exhibition in Mumbai this weekend is billed…
Source MADURAI, INDIA, April 15, 2011 (THe HIndu): A state-of-the-art control room to operate 32 Internet-Protocol Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras, which will monitor all the entrances and exits and detect suspicious movement of visitors to Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple here was commissioned on Friday. All the cameras can be accessed and controlled through the Internet. The cameras have the platform…
Source If our country is to produce robust, intellectual, and long-lived children who believe in God, we must, in my humble opinion, learn ways to control our sense organs. Sri K. — Pattabhi Jois, from his book Yoga Mala
Source INDIA, April 2011: Teenagers who spend hours plugged into their MP3 players are at greater risk of depression than their friends who prefer reading, new research by a team of American scientists suggests. Adolescents who excessively listen to music are over eight times likelier to suffer major depressive disorders than those who hardly listen to music, according to the…
Source KASHMIR, April 18, 2011: Though the Kashmir valley has for centuries had a Muslim majority, its Hindu population – commonly known as Pandits – were always an integral part of the community. Hindus claim their history here dates back thousands of years. When a separatist militancy gathered pace two decades ago, up to 400,000 Hindus either fled or were…
Source According to karma yoga, the action one has done cannot be destroyed until it has borne its fruit; no power in nature can stop it from yielding its results. If I do an evil action, I must suffer for it; there is no power in this universe to stop it or stay it. Similarly, if I do a good…
Source RISHIKESH, INDIA, April 2, 1011 (by Sonal Srivastavaon): Western medicine is very effective for trauma care and in dealing with life-threatening conditions. But it is of little help when it comes to educating people on how to live healthy so that they can avoid diseases. For many decades, people were terrified of cholesterol so they ended up consuming lots…
Religion News Service WASHINGTON, U.S., April 2011 (Religion News Service): A New York minister will soon fill the Obama administration’s long-vacant position to oversee international religious freedom after the Senate voted to confirm the Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook for the post. Thursday’s (April 14) voice vote positions Cook to become the first female and the first African-American in the post.…
Source PUTTAPARTHI, INDIA, April 26, 2011 (Times of India): An ocean of humanity with streams of devotees flowed from all directions on Tuesday, as hectic preparations were on for the mahasamadhi of Sri Sathya Sai Baba. Number 9 was Sathya Sai Baba’s favorite and lucky number. When the clock strikes 9 in the morning, the final rituals will start and…
Source [HPI note: Although Sai Baba was born to Hindu parents, raised in a Hindu community, took a Hindu name, wore the saffron-colored vestments of a Hindu sannyasin, will be honored by Hindu funeral rites; though he quoted from Hindu scriptures and directed an overwhelmingly Hindu following to sing traditional Hindu devotional songs, even so, he did not profess to…