Source: www.reuters.com WASHINGTON, DC, USA, November 9, 2009: WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama may be in for a nasty surprise when he reaches the final pages of the best-selling book Life of Pi, which he said on Monday he was reading with his 11-year-old daughter Malia. In an interview with Reuters, Obama called it a “wonderful…
Source: Religion News Service VATICAN CITY, November 13, 2009: Surprised when an ultra-traditionalist bishop whom he had welcomed back into the Catholic Church turned out to have been a fervent and public Holocaust-denier, Pope Benedict XVI declared in March that he had “learned the lesson” that the Vatican would have to “pay greater attention” to the Internet. Eight months later,…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com “I think it would be a good idea.” Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) when asked what he thought of Western civilization
Source: epaper.hindustantimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 13, 2009: Countless tourists descended to enjoy the serene surroundings and stupendous architecture of the Akshardham Temple every month, but the average Delhiite, when not on the occasional pilgrimage, stayed away from it just because it took long to get there. But now things will be different “With a metro station right at our…
Source: wheels.blogs.nytimes.com UNITED STATES, November 11, 2009: A United States District Judge has struck down a Christian-themed license plate that had been approved by the South Carolina Legislature, reports the BBC. Judge Cameron Currie ruled that the plate was a violation of the First Amendment, which prohibits Congress from making a law “respecting an establishment of religion.” The South Carolina…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com According to karma yoga, the action one has done cannot be destroyed until it has borne its fruit; no power in nature can stop it from yielding its results. If I do an evil action, I must suffer for it; there is no power in this universe to stop it or stay it. Similarly, if I do a…
Source:¬†http://www.expressb uzz.com/ BHADRACHALAM, INDIA, November 3, 2009: Almost 60 temples in Bhadrachalam division of Khammam district are all set to have archakas to conduct the daily poojas. It is estimated that more than 80 temples, some more than 100 years old, have been lying unattended, due to a lack of priests to look after them and conduct the daily poojas.…
Source: HPI MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, November 12, 2009: Spiritual teacher, Mother Maya (Swami Mayatitananda) comes to Australia this November & December, as the guest of honor at the Parliament of World Religions in Melbourne, where the publisher of Hinduism Today, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, is also a key speaker. Swami Mayatitananda is acknowledged as one of the “12 Living Saints of India.”…
Source: www.nytimes.com LONDON, ENGLAND, November 8, 2009: The questions before the judges in Courtroom No. 1 of Britain’s Supreme Court were as ancient and as complex as Judaism itself. Who is a Jew? And who gets to decide? On the surface, the court was considering a straightforward challenge to the admissions policy of a Jewish high school in London. But…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Make the mind always remain poised, like a hummingbird over a flower, so that you begin to live in the eternal now constantly, permanently. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001)