{"id":10642,"date":"2011-11-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/11\/16\/foreigners-flock-to-haridwar-for-hinduism\/"},"modified":"2011-11-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T12:00:00","slug":"foreigners-flock-to-haridwar-for-hinduism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/11\/16\/foreigners-flock-to-haridwar-for-hinduism\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreigners Flock To Haridwar For Hinduism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ianslive.in\/index.php?param=news\/380841\/Specials\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HARIDWAR, INDIA, November 3, 2011 (ians live): They come here from Russia, Malaysia, Belarus, South Korea and the U.S., lured by Hinduism which they say answers questions that have plagued them for years.<\/p>\n<p>Foreigners flocking to Haridwar, one of the holiest Hindu holy spots, are mostly the educated, both men and women, from all parts of the globe, and have a spiritual commitment that amazes many Indians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today the Orthodox Church in Russia is like the old Communist rulers,&#8221; said Moscow resident Victor Shevtsov. &#8220;They don&#8217;t allow questions. They don&#8217;t reply to questions. You have to obey them. This repels many.&#8221; &#8220;Here, in India and in the East, religious leaders talk to you, they answer questions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like so many foreigners, Dasom Her, a 22-year-old South Korean who studies here, was floored after reading &#8220;Autobiography of a Yogi&#8221;, a gem in spiritual literature that Paramhansa Yogananda authored in 1946 and which still sells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source HARIDWAR, INDIA, November 3, 2011 (ians live): They come here from Russia, Malaysia, Belarus, South Korea and the U.S.,,&#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-10642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642","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=10642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}