www.indiajournal.com WHITTIER, CA, USA, April 16, 2009: An atmosphere of bhakti surrounded the Whittier, California BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir as devotees of the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Sanstha celebrated the 228th birthday of Bhagwan Swaminarayan, founder of the Sampraday. Bhajans, folk dances, discourses, and inspirational skits filled the evening. The program commenced with shlokas officially inviting Bhagwan Swaminarayan into the assembly…
www.hinduismtoday.com Wealth and happiness are not related to each other as cause and effect. An attempt to secure happiness by securing wealth is as futile as it is absurd. Jagadguru Sri Chandrasekhara Bharati Mahaswamigal(1912-1954), 34th pontiff of the Sarada Peetham
computing.in.msn.com HYDERABAD, INDIA, Mrch 30, 2009: Hyderabad-based Aurona Technologies developed Hanuman: Boy Warrior, and it is the first completely India-developed game for the console Play Station 2 with localized content. The game is also Sony’s first Indian religion-based title, with an option to play in Hindi. Hanuman: Boy Warrior is about the journey of Hanuman to free up life forms…
www.hinduismtoday.com In life, to handle yourself, use your head, but to handle others, use your heart. Swami Chinmayananda (1917-1993), writer, lecturer and Hindu renaissance founder of Chinmaya Mission International
www.youtube.com KAUAI, HAWAII, USA, April 18, 2009: Hinduism Today brings to life its April/May/June, 2009 edition in our new summary video. Opening the video this time is a Wordcloud, a visual technology used to grasp the table of contents in a colorful graphic message. Click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBH_hJ21K0I&feature=channel_page to see the video. We suggest that users with high bandwidth watch the HD…
Press Release SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, April 14, 2009: The first anniversary of Sydney Veda Patasala was grandly celebrated with more than 150 people attending to hear, participate and appreciate Vedic chanting. An initiative of Vishva Hindu Parishad of Australia, the Sydney Veda Patasala was started in 2008 under the guidance of Swami Vigyananand, Joint General Secretary, VHP. Children from four Patasala…
By Paras Ramoutar, HPI Correspondent PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, APRIL 15, 2009: Thieves have again broken into a Hindu Temple in Trinidad and Tobago. This is most recent in a series of raids which have affected the Hindu places of worship here over the last years. Police reported that devotees returned to the Mon Plasir Road Hindu Temple on Monday…
www.hinduismtoday.com Man’s freedom is not in being saved troubles, but is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, and make the trouble an element in his joy. Rabindranath Tagore
www.nytimes.com FIJI, April 11, 2009: Fiji’s president revoked the nation’s Constitution on Friday, and called for fresh elections by 2014. He also abolished the judiciary. Fiji’s Court of Appeal had declared illegal the interim government of Commodore Frank Bainimarama, who became prime minister after leading a bloodless coup in 2006. Fiji’s international relations were already strained because Prime Minister Bainimarama…
RNS ARLINGTON, VA, USA, April 14, 2009: Two Sikh men say they want to report for active duty in July even as they refuse to comply with the Army’s demands to cut their unshorn beards and hair and remove their turbans. “I am willing to lay down my life for America,” said 2nd Lt. Tejdeep Singh Rattan, one of the…