JAKARTA, INDONESIA, January 17, 2011: Powerful flows of volcanic mud carried by rivers from Mount Merapi that have destroyed bridges, houses, farmlands and other structures along river banks also pose a threat to the Prambanan Temple. The famous Hindu temple complex, located in Prambanan on the border of Yogyakarta and Central Java provinces, sits 100 meters from the banks of…
NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 14, 2011: Primary school students have slipped over the past year in math, a subject for which Indian brains are tapped globally in research and technology firms, one of the country’s most credible non-government surveys of the nation’s rural schooling system has found. The decline in mathematics and in the ability to perform routine calculations expected…
If even a single one of the senses is uncontrolled, all knowledge leaves a person just as water drains from a leaking water vessel. %26nbsp;%26nbsp;%26nbsp;Manu Samhita, Verse II.99 Source
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com At this time in the Kali Yuga, ignorance is equally distributed worldwide, and wisdom has become an endangered species. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001)
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apKfMTasN_I&hd=1 KAUAI, HI, USA, November 30, 2010: Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, publisher of Hinduism Today, addresses the subject of perfection in his latest Publisher’s Desk article. How to reach it? Watch the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apKfMTasN_I&hd=1
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com KAUAI, HI, USA, December 1, 2010: The January/February/March edition of Hinduism Today, Hinduism’s flagship magazine, has been released in digital form and is now available for free on your desktop. You can read it on our website or download it. In this issue we deliver two monumental Educational Insights, a major feature story on the famed Gold-Clad Temple…
Source: www.nytimes.com NEW YORK, November 22, 2010 (an editorial from the New York Times): President Obama has issued an executive order revamping the rules covering religious-based and neighborhood programs receiving federal dollars. It makes some good changes to better ensure that the faith-based initiative begun by George W. Bush and extended by Mr. Obama respects religious liberty. But the revisions…
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com ROHTAK, INDIA, November 24, 2010: A rare 1200-year-old sandstone sculpture of a Hindu Goddess has been discovered from an archeological site near Kaleshwar temple in Kurukhsetra. According to historians, the sculpture signifies the prevalence of worship of female Gods during the Pratihar and pre-Pratihar era. The 66 lb. sandstone sculpture of Goddess Shakti could be from the Shakti…
Source: community.nytimes.com USA, November 30, 2010: [HPI note: The New York Times article “A Debate Over Yoga’s Soul,” summarized on November 28’s edition of HPI, spawned a prolific and intelligent debate among the readers, who posted hundreds of comments. You can see them here . Some examples are below, edited for brevity. reader Manas, from San Francisco:Chopra, Debbie Desmond and…
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apKfMTasN_I&hd=1 KAUAI, HI, USA, November 30, 2010: Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, publisher of Hinduism Today, addresses the subject of perfection in his latest Publisher’s Desk article. How to reach it? Watch the video here.