{"id":10306,"date":"2011-07-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/07\/21\/dr-kalam-launches-book-on-hinduism\/"},"modified":"2011-07-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T12:00:00","slug":"dr-kalam-launches-book-on-hinduism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/07\/21\/dr-kalam-launches-book-on-hinduism\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Kalam Launches Book on Hinduism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release <\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, July 1, 2011 (Press Release): An inaugural evening function of the book, &#8220;Hinduism, An Introduction&#8221; by the BAPS Swamianrayan Sanstha took place in the presence of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam at Swaminarayan Akshardham, New Delhi on 1 July 2011. The author, Sadhu Vivekjivandas of the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha spoke about the salient features of various beliefs, traditions, festivals, divine incarnations, holy places and sacred texts in Hinduism.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kalam praised the content of the book saying, &#8220;Hinduism is indeed a natural religion. It&#8217;s virtues of tolerance and righteousness have produced a civilized race. When I studied the book, I really find that Hinduism is life a great river that tenaciously moves like a great river. The book brings out the underlying and universal concepts of Hinduism. All religions preach common values.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pramukh Swami Maharaj&#8217;s blessings were read out, saying &#8220;May all be blessed with righteousness, peace and faith in life, which represents the essential principles of Hinduism. Hinduism is a comprehensive dharma that strives for the good of all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release NEW DELHI, July 1, 2011 (Press Release): An inaugural evening function of the book, &#8220;Hinduism, An Introduction&#8221; by,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}