{"id":1680,"date":"2002-02-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/02\/22\/2002-02-22-hindu-university-good-karma-for-central-florida\/"},"modified":"2002-02-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-02-22T12:00:00","slug":"2002-02-22-hindu-university-good-karma-for-central-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/02\/22\/2002-02-22-hindu-university-good-karma-for-central-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu University &#8220;Good Karma&#8221; For Central Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/orlandosentinel.com\/features\/lifestyle\/orl-livhinduu09020902feb09.story\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>ORLANDO, FLORIDA, February 19, 2002: The developers of Orlando&#8217;s Hindu University of America are certain of one thing: the unique institution they are planning already has plenty of good karma. &#8220;When you are doing God&#8217;s work, He makes things happen,&#8221; says Hindu University chairman, Braham Aggarwal, 66. In Hinduism, the faith of nearly a billion people, the concept of karma dictates a world in cosmic and individual balance. Soon after the university acquired a ten-acre site on Econlockhatchee Trail for the school, officials received an unsolicited gift from an absentee neighbor who donated an adjoining 2.5-acre parcel of land. The school&#8217;s present core curriculum includes principles of Hinduism, practice of Hinduism and basic Sanskrit. Ultimately, the curriculum will be a mixture of academic and nonacademic disciplines, from the study of the sacred Vedas, to yoga, meditation and astrology. Aggarwal believes the need for such an institution is critical, especially for a faith that does not proselytize. &#8220;Hinduism is the least understood philosophy in this country,&#8221; he says.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE ORLANDO, FLORIDA, February 19, 2002: The developers of Orlando&#8217;s Hindu University of America are certain of one,&#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-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","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=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}