KAUAI, HI, USA, May, 1996 (by Hinduism Today’s Editor-in-Chief): Nations are defined, in practical reality, not by their financial clout or military strength, not by cultural heritage or natural resources, nor even by their political system and history. They are defined by their traffic. Show me a nation’s roads, and I’ll show you its very soul. There are the world’s…
NEW YORK, January 28, 2011: ‘Taxi Yoga,’ declares the flier. ‘No more Road Rage. Become a Road Sage!’ The flier is one of more than 3,000 that Andrew Vollo had sent or handed out to promote his Taxi Yoga class. He had visited mosques, Sikh gurdwaras, Hindu temples and had been interviewed on the cable show ‘India Talks.’ For this…
KATHMANDU, NEPAL, January 30, 2011: A Nepalese Hindu has dragged the government to court over its decision to open the main treasury of Nepal’s famous Pashupatinath Temple, that is believed to have remained padlocked for centuries. Bharat Jangam, a Hindu activist and writer, has filed a petition in the Supreme Court, pleading to strike down the decision taken by the…
SOUTH AFRICA, January 30, 2011: A Priest from the United States has been enlisted to help a local organisation with it’s Hindu revival campaign. Pandit Chunelall Narine, founder and head priest of the Shri Trimurti Bhavan in the U.S., was invited to the country by the South African Hindu Dharma Sabha to help with their Hindu Renaissance Festival. Narine, also…
India conquered and dominated China culturally [through Buddhism] for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. %26nbsp;%26nbsp;%26nbsp;Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to the United States Source
NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 25, 2011: Severe criticism of its remarks over conversion has forced the Supreme Court to expunge its controversial observations on the subject of conversion. As reported by HPI on January 23, The Supreme Court on Friday held that conversion from one religion to another had no justification in ‘secular’ India as it amounted to interference in…
INDIA, January 23, 2011: (by By Gopalakrishnan Nair) Swami Purushottamananda, one of the senior disciples of Pujya Swami Chinmayananda, attained Mahasamadhi on January 17, 2011. He served as the Resident Acharya of Chinmaya Mission, Kolhapur and Chinmaya Mission’s Regional Head for Maharashtra, Goa and Gujarat. He was trained and taught by Swami Chinmayananda at the first Vedanta course conducted at…
Man arrives at immortality by breaking beyond the limitations not only of his physical self, but of his mental and his ordinary psychic nature into the highest plane and supreme ether of the Truth: for there is the foundation of immortality and the native seat of the triple infinite. %26nbsp;%26nbsp;%26nbsp;Sri Aurobindo (1879-1950) Source
BHUTAN, January 28, 2011: Authorities in Bhutan have signaled that they will permit the registration at least one Christian organization in the landlocked Asian nation. Currently, Christians are permitted to worship in their homes but are forbidden to gather in public or spread the Gospel. Two Indian missionary orders are preparing to enter Bhutan if the government allows them to…
TRINIDAD, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, January 30, 2011: Mahatma Ghandhi departed his mortal form on January 30th 1948 while chanting the name of the Lord, ‘Ram, Ram.’ He was world renowned for promoting peace and non violence and acceptance of all races and religions. It was quite fitting that Chinmaya Mission Trinidad and Tobago hosted their annual Shanti Yatra or Peace…