Source: www.hindu.com VISAKHAPATNAM, INDIA, October 16, 2010: Reciting or reading 24,000 slokas in Valmiki Ramayana might take a few weeks or months, but writing them on Palmyra Leaves within six months is no mean task. This treasure of ‘Ramayana on Talapatra’, about 200-years-old, is one of the books on display at the domestic ritual of entreating Goddess Saraswati by Sanskrit…
Source: www.macaudailytimes.com.mo MACAU, October 16, 2010: Around 300 Nepalese gathered yesterday in Macau to celebrate the greatest festival of their country. During four hours in the morning and four hours in the evening, local Nepalese received the blessing with “tika” and “jamra” and joined a party full of traditional food. The five-day Dashain Festival is held in October and is…
Source: www.bbc.co.uk NAGOYA, JAPAN, October 16, 2010: “We are now close to a ‘tipping point’ – that is, we are about to reach a threshold beyond which biodiversity loss will become irreversible, and may cross that threshold in the next 10 years if we do not make proactive efforts for conserving biodiversity,” said Japan’s Environment Minister Ryo Matsumoto. A UN…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Not to do what you feel like doing is freedom. Swami Chinmayananda
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, KERALA, INDIA, October 17, 2010: Celebrating their first learning, thousands of children in Kerala entered the world of written language by scribbling their first letters on Vijayadasami day today, marking the conclusion of the Navaratri festival. The day is also celebrated as Ayudhya Puja, when all tools are blessed. Early in the morning, children, mostly aged two…
Source: www.southasiamail.com WASHINGTON, DC, October 14, 2010 (By Anju Bhargava): This October, Hindu American Seva Charities (HASC) launched UtsavSeva (festival service), an initiative to highlight the spiritual value of the major festival of that month. Since Navaratri, the nine nights to honor the Goddess, occurs in October, this month’s theme is ShaktiSeva: women-oriented service. October is also National Domestic Violence…
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com PATNA, INDIA, October 14, 2010: Isn’t it a heartening news that Durga Puja committees have been sensitized against animal sacrifice? Ranjit Bhattacharya, a purohit (priest) of a Barowari Puja Committee said, “Sacrifice is an essential aspect of the Puja, for `bali’ is the symbol of power. Bali invokes power. And since we are worshipping Durga, who is the…
Source: www.fijitimes.com FIJI, October 18, 2010: Ten days of the 105th Ram Leela festival celebrated in Bulileka, Labasa came to an end yesterday after the burning of Ravana, the ten-headed king of demons in the Hindu Ramayana. The daily theatrical enactment of the Ramayan attracted a crowd of about 500 to the Bulileka temple every day. Pundit Shiv Maharaj said…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com If our senses conveyed the whole truth to us, we would see the Earth as rivers and glaciers of electrons, each speck of dust as a rolling mass of light. Paramahansa Yogananda
source: BBC LEICESTER, UNITED KINGDOM, August 2010: Women are becoming more and more prominent as worship leaders in all faiths in England. And now a woman from Leicester is taking on the largely male strong hold of Hindu priesthood. In her fifties Chanda Vyas achieved her childhood dream, when she became the first female Hindu priest to conduct weddings in…