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…
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, January 29, 2011: Archaeologists of Jaffna University, led by Prof. Pushparatnam, have discovered the ruins of a 15th-century Hindu temple buried in the sand in the middle of a thick jungle in Pooneryn in North Sri Lanka, which could unravel a part of Sri Lankan history in which the Pooneryn area of the Wanni was on the…
India is the cradle of the human race, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grandmother of tradition. The most valuable and the most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only. %26nbsp;%26nbsp;%26nbsp;Mark Twain (1835-1910), American writer Source
UNITED STATES, January 2011, (by Chitra Raman): A recent essay by Wendy Doniger on the website of The Christian Post (December 30, 2010) is titled: Is Yoga a form of Hinduism? Is Hinduism a form of Yoga? More amazing to me than Doniger’s inventiveness is her reputation as an infallible authority on Hinduism. In discussing the origins and evolution of…
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, January 22, 2011: India barbers in Malaysia plan to make lots of money from the sale of hundreds of kilograms of hair shaved off by devotees during Thai Pusam. ‘Instead of throwing the hair away, local businessmen can make big bucks by selling it to international wig makers. Hair is worth between $200 and $300 per kg.…