Source: www.hinduismtoday.com “Fasting is possible. You can stay without food for a week or ten days. Feasting is also possible. You simply go and eat all you want. Many people are really fast when they end their fast. They are fast in getting to the refrigerator.” Swami Satchidananda on the need to follow the “middle path”
Source: www.hinduonnet.com [HPI note: A court in the Indian capital, Delhi, has ruled that homosexual sex between consenting adults is not a criminal act. The international media widely reported on the decision, as you can read on the NY Times here and on the BBC here. HPI brings you the religious perspective and opinions from religious leaders. DELHI, INDIA, July…
Source: happydays.blogs.nytimes.com NEW YORK, USA, June 25, 2009: There is a strong link between chronic anger and heart disease, according to a recent meta-analysis of 44 prospective studies in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. It confirms a strong relationship between anger and both the onset and outcome from coronary heart disease. Many people believe that unexpressed anger…
Source: www.sindhtoday.net GUWAHATI, INDIA, June 23, 2009: At a revered Hindu temple in India’s northeastern state of Assam, hundreds of mystics and seers make claims of performing wonders with their miraculous supernatural powers. Giri Baba, an elderly Hindu seer is among thousands of mystics gathered for the Ambubachi Mela, a four-day festival that began Monday. “One cannot deny miracles and…
Source: news.bbc.co.uk BELFAST, IRELAND, June 24, 2008: A Hindu priest and his family who live at the Indian Community Centre in north Belfast they are planning to move out, following an attack last week which they believe was racially motivated. A gang of youths tried to break down the door of the centre while the priest’s wife was alone inside.…
Source: www.hindu.com JAMMU & KASHMIR, INDIA, June 26, 2009: Indian and Pakistani troops gathered with their families to remember the 18th century saint Baba Chambliyal, highly revered on both sides of the border. There is little place for hostility as Pakistani border officials cross over to India to celebrate the three-day border festival at the nondescript shrine of Baba Dileep…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com The mystery is no mystery to the mystic. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001)
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. Dennis Wholey
Source: www.nytimes.com New York, USA, July 1, 2009: Spurred by a broad coalition of religious, labor and immigrant groups, New York’s City Council overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Tuesday to add two of the most important Muslim holy days to the public schools’ holiday calendar. But the vote, which was non-binding, put the Council in conflict with Mayor Michael R.…
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, 27 Jun 2009: Was Indian society tolerant of homosexuality before the colonial administration proscribed it in 1860? On a petition pending before the Delhi high court seeking to decriminalize homosexuality, the government said in its counter affidavit that that there were “no convincing reports to indicate that homosexuality or other offenses against the order of…