Source: Official Aid to Kailas Mutt Trust NASHIK, INDIA, January 19, 2010: Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan has announced financial assistance of US$ 21,563 to city-based 100-year-old Kailas Mutt Trust to help in its efforts of boosting the Vedas and lauded the Mutt’s work in the field of social and cultural activities. Inaugurating a three-day All India Vedic Conference Monday…
Daily Inspiration
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Don’t put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket. Swami Chinmayananda
President Obama Praises Hindu Americans For Service
Source: www.mynews.in WASHINGTON, D.C., USA, January 26, 2010: Joshua DuBois, executive director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and Special Assistant to President Barack Obama, has lauded Hindu Americans for promoting inter-faith dialogue and cooperation through service in the United States. In an exclusive interaction with the Hindu American community, 26-year-old DuBois — a political strategist…
Balagangadharanath Swami Among Padma Awardees
Source: www.daijiworld.com BANGALORE, INDIA, January 26, 2010: Eminent doctors, scientists, head of a religious math and a theatre exponent among others from Karnataka were included in the list of Padma awards announced on Monday. Among the awardees is Balagangadharanath Swami, pontiff of Adichunchanagiri Mutt in Mandya district. The mutt has been into many social service including disseminating education to masses…
Advanced Booking of Cremation Ceremonies
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, January 26, 2010: In Kerala, a tourist destination marketed as God’s own country, soon one’s journey to the hereafter could begin much before one passes away. People in Palakkad, concerned about whether or not their last rites would be carried out in proper religious fashion, now have the option of making an advance booking of their…
When Chakras and Chocolate Collide
Source: www.nytimes.com NEW YORK, January, 2010: 30 people signed up for a strange new hybrid of vigorous yoga, followed by a multicourse dinner of pasta, wine and chocolate, served on the yoga room floor. This almost seamless transition was designed to allow yogis to taste, smell and digest in a heightened state of awareness. Friday’s event at Exhale Spa was…
Over 100 Hindu Religious Heads Meet at the Dharma Acharya Sabha
Source: www.hindujagruti.org HYDERABAD, INDIA, January 10, 2010: The Dharma Acharya Sabha’s fourth meeting took place in Hydrabad. When announcing the 2010 meeting date, the organizer of Acharya Sabha, H.H. Swami Dayanand Saraswathi, said “Religious heads recognize that Hindu religion is sacred and ancient. But we still have a long way to go in getting our rights back as a majority…
Thousands of Devotees Expected for “Cavadee” Festival
Source: www.clicanoo.com REUNION ISLAND, January 25, 2010: The ten-day celebration of the festival called Tai Poussam Cavadee (commonly spelled as Thai Pusam Kavadi in English, a celebration of God Murugan) has begun at the Hindu temples in Saint-Andre and Saint-Louis on Reunion Island, located 120 mile southwest of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. Cavadee is celebrated each year by the…
Stop Eating Meat and Save the Planet
Source: www.nytimes.com BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, January 25, 2010: Delegates arriving at the gates of the climate conference in Copenhagen last month were met by women in furry animal suits holding placards showing pictures of lambs, cows and pigs and warning, “Don’t Eat Me.” These activists say that one of her principal goals is to fight environmental disasters, and her representatives in…
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Source: www.hinduismtoday.com If even a single one of the senses is uncontrolled, all knowledge leaves a person just as water drains from a leaking water vessel. Manu Samhita, Verse II.99