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Source: www.hinduismtoday.com One of the most beautiful compensations of this life is that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.    Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: conferences.ted.com KAUAI, HAWAII, July 18, 2009: Hinduism Today is seeking someone knowledgeable about the coming “Ted Talks” program in India (see program below). We would like to get in direct contact with the organizers. Please email ar@hindu.org For those who don’t know, TED stands for “Technology, Education and Design.” and its 18 minute presentations by various speakers have been…

Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Whenever you have the chance, laugh as much as you can. By this all the rigid knots in your body will be loosened. But to laugh superficially is not enough; your whole being must be united in laughter, both inwardly and outwardly. Do you know how this is to be expressed? You literally shake with merriment from head…

Source: conferences.ted.com KAUAI, HAWAII, July 18, 2009: Hinduism Today is seeking someone knowledgeable about the coming “Ted Talks” program in India (see program below). We would like to get in direct contact with the organizers. For those who don’t know, TED stands for “Technology, Education and Design.” and its 18 minute presentations by various speakers have been very popular on…

Source: www.dnaindia.com USA, July 16, 2009: Unemployment has hit America’s human workforce hard, but with the growing affluence of 2 million Hindu-Americans, well-mannered elephants are much in demand for weddings, temple consecrations and re-consecrations. Last week Minnie, a magnificent-looking 37-year-old elephant–dolled up with a gold-studded shield on her forehead and a Hindu priest armed with a parasol astride her —…

Source: www.murugantemple.org LANHAM, MD, USA, July 18, 2009: Coinciding with festivals in Nallur, a two day festival honoring Lord Murugan at the Murugan Temple of North America will happen on August 7th (Friday) and 8th (Saturday). The festival will have a holy chariot for the Deity — a ratham — modeled after Nallur’s. The festival will commence with a Ganapathi…

Source: blog.taragana.com PATNA, INDIA, July 15, 2009: A group of “kanwarias”, devotees of Lord Shiva, are drawing wide public attention for carrying a 54-feet long kanwar –a wooden carrier fitted with water pots on both ends of the pole — in Patna city. Hundreds of thousands of devotees take an arduous on-foot religious journey to express their devotion for Lord…

Source: epaper.hindustantimes.com RAJASTHAN, INDIA, June 28, 2009: The one million strong community of Cheetah-Kathat Mehrat, spread over the four districts of Ajmer, Bhilwara, Pali and Rajsamand in Rajasthan, are in a unique predicament over their religious identity. Descendants of the Chauhan rulers, the community half-converted to Islam about 700 years ago, adopting only three practices of the many practices of…

Source: www.nytimes.com PITTSFORD, N.Y., USA, July 9, 2009: The Sisters of St. Joseph, an order of Roman Catholic women, have created a retirement community in this Rochester suburb which lends itself to successful aging and a gentle death. Factors include a large social network, intellectual stimulation, continued engagement in life and spiritual beliefs, as well as health care guided by…

Source: www.nytimes.com UNITED STATES, July 17, 2009: HPI note: Yesterday’s HPI article entitled “Efforts at Regulation Have Yoga Teachers Bent Out of Shape” was unclear in stating the exact nature of the regulations enforced by some U.S. states. In fact, the proposed regulation applies only to teacher training courses, not to ordinary classes.