Source: www.hinduismtoday.com The future is the continuing summation of all our past actions and reactions, for there is only the moment in which we live. The eternal now is the only consciousness we have when living in the higher states of mind. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Source: www.thehindu.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 15, 2010: The Supreme Court on Friday asked Parliament to revisit the provision relating to cruelty and dowry harassment, pointing out that large number of frivolous complaints are filed and courts are flooded with such matrimonial cases. Writing the judgment, Justice Bhandari said “The criminal trials lead to immense sufferings for all concerned. Even…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com In one stroke, one can destroy a rock but not a pillow, even so a humble man can never be destroyed, though the man with ego can be! Swami Sadananda Saraswati
Source: HPI KAUAI, HAWAII, August 26, 2010: Raimon Panikkar embodied endless contradictions, though he saw none. He was a devout Christian, who said he had become a Hindu and later a Buddhist. He was a Roman Catholic priest who used zealous reason to pursue the unfathomable mysteries of faith. He married at age 70, but continued to think of himself…
Source: www.monstersandcritics.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 3, 2010: An Australian woman had her last wishes fulfilled when a clerk in the northern Indian state of Haryana travelled hundreds of miles to scatter her ashes in the Ganges River. Jill Villers was born in 1945 in Lahore, a city in pre-partition India which now lies in Pakistan. She passed away at…
Source: expressbuzz.com BANGALORE, INDIA, August 5, 2010: The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board on Thursday called on Bangaloreans to celebrate Ganesha festival in an eco-friendly way. Tupil Venkatesh, an environmental consultant, said there was a need for 12 million Ganesha statues for the 60 million population in the state. “An average murti weighs about 4.4 lbs. and contains around 7…
Source: www.nbcmontana.com MONTANA, U.S., August 19, 2010: The 14 crosses erected along Utah roads to commemorate fallen state Highway Patrol troopers convey a state preference for Christianity and are a violation of the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court said Wednesday. The ruling reverses a 2007 decision by a federal district judge that said the crosses communicate a secular message…
Source: Religion News Service WASHINGTON, August 2010: When the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the 12-foot crosses erected to honor fallen Utah state troopers violate the Constitution’s Establishment Clause, which prohibits government endorsement of religion, it said “We hold that these memorials have the impermissible effect of conveying to the reasonable observer the message that the state…
Source: pakistannewsblog.com KARACHI, PAKISTAN, August 22, 2010: Divinity triumphed over disaster, claimed the people of Ghouspur after seeing what they called a miracle. One temple and one mosque were completely unaffected amid the ravaging flood that hit Ghouspur. The town in Kashmore district is completely submerged. However, local residents report that floodwater could not reach the Hindu temple and the…
Source: www.malaysianmirror.com KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, August 22, 2010: The Sri Maha Mariamman temple, the oldest functioning Hindu temple in Kuala Lumpur, has been given the honor of being the first ever temple portrayed on a postage stamp. The stamp was launched Saturday by MIC president Datuk Seri S.Samy Vellu to commemorate the temple’s sixth consecration ceremony to be held tomorrow.…