www.yomiuri.co.jp TOKYO, JAPAN, March 6, 2009: An increasing number of famous temples that attract large numbers of visitors have banned smoking throughout their premises, echoing antismoking measures adopted by public facilities in recent years. Some temples have merely restricted smoking to designated areas inside their grounds; but at the Sotoshu sect’s Koganji temple in central Tokyo–popularly known as Toge-nuki Jizo-son–a…
www.hinduismtoday.com O Mother! Let all my speech be your prayer; let all my crafts and technology be your worship and be the mystic gestures of my hand, adorning you. May all my movements become your devotional circumambulating. May everything I eat or drink be oblations to you. Let my lying down in rest and sleep be prostrations to you. Mother!…
www.hinduismtoday.com Refuse to be miserable. Swami Swaroopananda, Chinmaya Mission, Australia
www.hinduonnet.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, March 5, 2009: For the first time in Nepal’s history, the young girl worshipped as a living goddess by Hindus and Buddhists alike (and a major attraction for foreign tourists) has discontinued her much-awaited daily public appearances. Also for the first time, tourists have been stopped from entering her palace. “We took the decision Monday to protest…
www.hinduonnet.com BALI, INDONESIA, March 5, 2009: Despite all the talks about the ban on certain elements of yoga by the country’s top Muslim body, Indonesia formed its first yoga association on Thursday at the International Bali India Yoga festival. Formed under the aegis of Somvir, an Indian spiritual guru and academic who formed the Bali India Foundation to teach yoga…
Religion News Service NEW YORK, U.S., March 5, 2009: More than 40 years after they traveled to India to study transcendental meditation, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will reunite for the cause. The only two surviving Beatles, who rarely appear in public together, will perform at “Paul McCartney and Friends: Change Begins Within,” an April 4 benefit at New York’s…
www.organiser.org INDIA, March 03, 2009 : India is a secular republic, and secularism commands separation of state and religion. Yet State governments have taken over all prominent Hindu temples and shrines. This is an anti-secular act–and it is clearly discriminatory and anti-Hindu, since no Christian church or Muslim mosque has been touched, only Hindu temples. Article 25 of the Indian…
www.hindu-blog.com PURI, INDIA, March 3, 2009: Gobinda Dwadasi is an auspicious day which falls on the 12th day during the waxing phase of the moon in the Phalguna month. Gobind Dwadasi is considered highly auspicious by Vishnu devotees. In 2009, the date of Gobinda Dwadasi is March 8, which is of great significance at the Puri Jagannath Temple, because a…
www.hinduismtoday.com The future is the continuing summation of all our past actions and reactions, for there is only the moment in which we live. The eternal now is the only consciousness we have when living in the higher states of mind. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
www.theatlantic.com In October 1908, a brilliant article discussing India’s new nationalist movement appeared in The Atlantic. A summary follows; read the whole article at “Source” above. BOSTON, USA, January 1908: What is India’s Nationalist Movement? What has brought it into existence? What does it portend for the future of India, and the future relations between India and Great Britain? India…