Daily Inspiration

Source: www.hinduismtoday.com An old brahmin priest spoke with his Lord Siva about heaven and hell (which is called Narakaloka in Sanskrit and differs from other hells in not being eternal, but a temporary state of souls between births). The Lord said to the aging pandit, “Come, I will show you hell.” They entered a room where a group of people…

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Free Clinic opens in Yankin Township in Burma Sponsored by Hindus

Source: Source: www.burmalibrary.org/docs6/NLM2009-01-23.pdf YANGON, MYANMAR, January 23, 2009 — A free clinic founded by Tamil Hindu Religious Trust Fund was opened in Yankin Township on 18 January. Located at No. 66, Building No. 2 on Mogaung Road in Yankin Township, the clinic is open from 10 am to noon daily except Sundays and gazetted holidays. Those wishing to donate medicines…

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Daily Inspiration

Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Youth are blamed for being careless and useless, but in reality I feel that they are cared for less and are used less, and as a result the costliest resources of the society are getting wasted.    Brahmachari Atma Chaitanya of Chinmaya Mission, Kerala

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Six Malaysian Muslims Charged with Insulting Hindus

Source: www.google.com SHAH ALAM, MALAYSIA, September 18, 2009: Six Malaysian Muslims have been charged with sedition for parading the severed head of a cow–the holiest animal in Hinduism–to protest the planned construction of a Hindu temple. The men were charged Wednesday in a district court in Shah Alam, the capital of Selangor state, where they had marched with the cow…

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Texas’ K-12 Curriculum Revision Process Comes Under Scrutiny

Source: newsweek.washingtonpost.com TEXAS, September 1, 2009: (HPI note: The Washington Post invited Aseem Shukla to offer a Hindu point of view on the curriculum revision now under way in Texas.) Post introduction: “The Texas Board of Education, the nation’s second largest purchaser of public school textbooks, is revising its K-12 social studies curriculum and deciding how to characterize religion’s influence…

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Divine Energy for the Colosse Temple of Reunion

Source: www.clicanoo.com REUNION, September 7, 2009: The Hindu temple of Colosse near St. Andre on Reunion Island has celebrated its kumbhabhishekam. A thousand worshippers attended the three-day consecration organized by the Pandialee Association. Many dignitaries were present for the big day, including the Consul of India (RS Badwal), the mayor of Saint-Andre (Eric Fruteau), the president of the Federation of…

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Indian State High Court Stays Government Funds for Church Repairs

Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA, September 8, 2009: At a hearing of a writ petition on Monday, a two-member bench of the AP High Court directed authorities to maintain status quo on government funds for building or repairing churches. The petition, filed by Tripuraneni Hanuman Chowdary, complained that the state government was engaging itself in the promotion of a religion…

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Texas State Board of Education Keeps Christmas in Sixth Grade Schoolbooks; May Add Diwali

Source: www.chron.com AUSTIN, TEXAS, September 18, 2009: Christmas will stay in Texas textbooks, State Board of Education members said Thursday while reviewing early recommendations for new social studies standards. The board will not approve the new curriculum standards for public schools until next year, but wanted to assure constituents they will not accept a recommendation to yank Christmas. “We have…

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Panama Ganesh Festival

Source: www.laestrella.com.pa PANAMA, September 6, 2009: A millennial celebration, full of color and traditions, is remembered every year by about three thousand Hindus living in Panama, who first came as nineteenth century immigrants. This year was the first time the Hindu temple celebrated the Ganesh festival with a five foot tall clay statue that was brought from India. The statue,…

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