Source: www.derwesten.de GERMANY, June 14, 2010: The inaugural celebration for the renovation of the Hindu temple at the Robert-Koch-Strasse is in full swing. Anyone who accepted followed the friendly invitation removed their shoes and entered the long, single-story building to have a look at another world. A new statue of the Goddess Durga, the wife of Shiva, was set up…
Source: www.bbc.co.uk The amount of phytoplankton – tiny marine plants – in the top layers of the oceans has declined markedly over the last century, research suggests. Writing in the journal Nature, scientists say the decline appears to be linked to rising water temperatures. The final tally included 445,237 data points spanning the period 1899-2008. “This study took three years,…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com There is one thing God cannot do. He cannot separate Himself from the soul. Yogaswami of Jaffna (1872-1964)
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com CHENNAI, INDIA, July 21, 2010: It was the collapse of the temple tower at Srikalahasti in Andhra Pradesh that spurred experts to inspect the rajagopurams characteristic of Chennai’s temples. What they discovered were not cracks or fissures but rare sculptures including one of the Maratha king Shivaji, which embellish the intricate carvings on these structures. “While climbing up…
Source: www.globalvisas.com UNITED STATES, July 21, 2010: It has emerged that professionals from India took a third of the available US work visas under the H-1B category last year. Among foreigners living in the US on a temporary basis, India made up the largest group, second only to Mexicans. Last year there were 364,757 non-immigrant Indians residing in the US…
Source: www.hafsite.org UNITED STATES, July 22, 2010: If you missed the winning essays of the Hindu American Foundation’s second annual NextGen Essay Contest, here is your chance to read what the next generation of Hindus is thinking. The question asked was, “How do you live your Hindu identity differently than your parents live theirs?” Contestants, in two categories based upon…
Source: in.news.yahoo.com INDIA, July 11, 2010: Security hassles at Kashi Vishwanath Temple have cut down the influx of daily devotees at the world famous temple by nearly 50 per cent, said Acharya Dr. Harihar Kripalu Tripathi, chief of Kashi Vishwanath Temple Trust. “The ever expanding security, which is inevitable owing to the sensitive nature of our complex, has reduced the…
Source: www.google.com FIJI, June 23, 2010: [HPI note: While the editorial staff of Hinduism Today works on an article about 2012, the Mayan calendar and World-End prophecies, we noticed this piece in the news. It is remarkable how fast a rumor can spread. Fiji is an unstable nation right now, which recently went through a military coup. The prophecy, fortunately,…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com This body is a world, a universe just like the one outside, and that is why great beings all say to look there, inside. If you look outside of yourself, you won’t find anything. But what is it that has its eternal source in God? Certainly not the body. The scriptures talk of the angustha purusha (thumb-sized body)…
Source: HPI KAPAA, HI, USA, July 23, 2010: Sri Swami Bua Maharaj, one of the world’s greatest yogis, passed away today. Robert Spalding Newcomb, a logtime student of Swami, reported that Swami was hospitalized in Bengaluru two days ago and left his body shortly after that. Swami Bua was a legendary hatha yogi. True to his spirit of sannyas, he…