Source: HPI KAUAI, HI, USA, September 18, 2010: Hinduism’s dearest and most rotund God was celebrated with pomp all over the world. The worship of Lord Ganesha is increasingly international. Below HPI brings you short summaries of celebrations around the world, with links. Ganesh festival celebrated in Lyon, France (link) Yesterday nearly 200 devotees and onlookers attended the fifth annual…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Many think of God only after receiving blows from the world. But blessed indeed is he who can offer his mind, like a fresh flower, at the feet of the Lord from his very childhood. One should practice renunciation in youth. Sri Sarada Devi (1853-1920)
Source: HPI KAUAI, HI, USA, September 18, 2010: Hinduism’s dearest and most rotund God was celebrated with pomp all over the world. The worship of Lord Ganesha is increasingly international. Below HPI brings you short summaries of celebrations around the world, with links. Ganesh festival celebrated in Lyon, France
Source: HPI PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD, August 22, 2010: Amid chants of Agni, Varuna, and Rudra, with oblation in sacrificial fire pit at the lawns of beautiful St. Augustine Campus of University of West Indies in Trinidad, were sitting some of the highest academic, scholars, and intellectuals to explore the meanings of these ancient practices and to make sense of them for…
Source: mailto:dclem@hometownlife.com DETROIT, MICHIGAN, September 5, 2010 (by Darrell Clem): Esteemed spiritual leaders from as far away as India joined thousands of metro Detroiters in song, prayer and upbeat ceremonies that ended Sunday as the new Hindu Temple of Canton formally opened amid a three-day celebration of what many lauded as one of the nation’s premier Hindu places of worship.…
Source: sify.com JAMMU/KASHMIR, September 9, 2010: The Vaishno Devi Shrine Board is to provide US$108,000 for the relief of victims of the cloudburst and flash floods in Leh. At least 180 people were killed in the August 6 flash floods and mudslides. The money is being released by the shrine board on the directions of Governor N.N. Vohra, chairman of…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Many advances in the sciences that we consider today to have been made in Europe were in fact made in India centuries ago. Grant Duff, British historian of India
source: http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/society/article621158.ece KOCHI, INDIA, September 8, 2010: Gloria Arieira, a Brazilian and an authority in Sanskrit has translated the Bhagawad Gita and parts of the Vedas to Portuguese, enabling her students across Brazil and Portugal to access the depths of this great philosophy. If you are seeking spirituality in the holiday resort of Copacabana, Rio, then you will find it…
http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/society/article621158.ece KOCHI, INDIA, September 8, 2010: Gloria Arieira, a Brazilian and an authority in Sanskrit has translated the Bhagawad Gita and parts of the Vedas to Portuguese, enabling her students across Brazil and Portugal to access the depths of this great philosophy. If you are seeking spirituality in the holiday resort of Copacabana, Rio, then you will find it at…
source: http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/agriculture/article623309.ece INDIA, September 2010: Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling said he hopes to make the state a fully organic state. “Though the task ahead is challenging, we are absolutely committed to go totally organic by 2015,” Chamling told Director of FIBL Institute of Organic Research Centre of Switzerland, Urs Niggli. The Chief Minister hoped to receive all the possible…