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It is easy to play with a cobra. It is easy to walk over the fire. It is easy to uproot the Himalayas. But it is difficult to eradicate lust. — Swami Sivananda Saraswati Maharaj, founder of the Divine Life Society in India Source

[HPI note: The link for this announcement yesterday was incorrect. Please here to see the correct travel schedule for Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami.] KAPAA, HAWAII, March 22, 2011: Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, guru mahasannidhanam of Kauai’s Hindu Monastery and publisher of Hinduism Today, is frequently invited to speak at temples and satsangs throughout the US. He will be making a tour of…

USA, March 21, 2011 (RNS): Charities are seeing improvements in fundraising, with fewer charities reporting declines in 2010 compared with 2009, according to a report released Tuesday (March 22). But a larger percentage of organizations reported bringing in about the same amount of revenue both years, says the report by the Nonprofit Research Collaborative, a coalition of six organizations that…

CHICAGO, March 21, 2011 (Press Release): Brussels – the capital of the Belgians and of 500,000,000 Europeans – has been chosen as the host city of the Parliament of the World’s Religions in 2014. The selection of Brussels was made by the Board of Trustees of the governing organization at its March 13, 2011 meeting in Chicago. More than 10,000…

AHMEDNAGAR, MAHARASHTRA, March 10, 2011: The management of the Shani-Shingnapure Temple struck down a decades-old tradition of compelling devotees to wear wet ‘lungi’ (sarong) before praying to the Sun God here, an official said. Thousands of devotees welcomed the move, said Shani-Shingnapure Temple Trust Chairman Shivaji Darandale. The trust spokesperson Tuvar Patil said the move would help protect the murti…

Shouting to make your children obey is like using the horn to steer your car, and you get about the same results. Source

KAPAA, HAWAII, March 22, 2011: Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, guru mahasannidhanam of Kauai’s Hindu Monastery and publisher of Hinduism Today, is frequently invited to speak at temples and satsangs throughout the US. He will be making a tour of Texas, March 24-April 11, with stops in San Antonio, Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston and Midland, as well as Shreveport, Louisiana, and Phoenix,…

RISHIKESH, INDIA, March 22, 2011: The organizers and participants in the International Yoga Festival reported in yesterday’s HPI, ‘US-Style Yoga Upsets Balance at Indian Festival,’ have challenged the Telegraph newspaper report as blatantly inaccurate. A further report and numerous comments are posted at the spiritvoyage.com blog (above), including these two, the first from Sadhvi Bhagawati of Parmath Niketan, organizer of…

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, March 15, 2011: A small ethnic Indian community Chitty — that arrived in Malacca from Tamil Nadu for trade much prior to the Europeans and the Chinese in the 16th century — has demanded the Malaysian government to designate them as ‘bumiputra’ – sons of the soil. In the Malacca state, there are about 1,500 families of…

NASHVILLE, U.S., March 2011: Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior is a new exhibit at Nashville’s Frist Center for the Visual Arts that aims to introduce American art audiences to the visual beauty of the intricate ways Hindus throughout time have rendered their deities. Curator Joan Cummins, of the Brooklyn Museum, described the goals of the exhibit recently. ‘First, to introduce one…