{"id":3368,"date":"2003-08-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/08\/03\/2003-08-03-august-festivals-and-resources\/"},"modified":"2003-08-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-03T12:00:00","slug":"2003-08-03-august-festivals-and-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/08\/03\/2003-08-03-august-festivals-and-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"August Festivals and Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HPI<\/P><P>KAUAI, HAWAII, August 3, 2003: Our thanks to M P Bhattathiry (mpmahesh@asianetindia.com) for providing the following list of festivals and related resources. In this month, August 2 is Naag Panchami, 4 is Tulsidas Jayanti, 12 is Raksha Bandhan, 15 is Sri Aurobindo Jayanti, 19 is Sri Krishna Jayanti, 31 is Ganesh Chaturthi.<BR><br \/>\n <BR><br \/>\n1.Sri Aurobindo&#8217;s words &#8211; excerpts from the book India&#8217;s Rebirth. It has helped me understand India.<BR><br \/>\n<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.esamskriti.com\/html\/new_inside.asp?cat_name=greatmen&#038;cid=426&#038;sid=106\">source<\/a><BR><br \/>\n <BR><br \/>\n2. Significance of Sri Krishna Jayanthi &#8211; <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.esamskriti.com\/html\/new_inside.asp?cat_name=festivals&#038;cid=239&#038;sid=40\">source<\/a><BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n3. Significance of Ganesh Chaturthi &#8211; <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.esamskriti.com\/html\/new_inside.asp?cat_name=festivals&#038;cid=241&#038;sid=42\">source<\/a><BR><br \/>\n <BR><br \/>\n4. Enshrining Ganesha &#8211; published by Jnana Prabhodini. This piece gives the manual of worship of Shri Ganesha, the rites to be performed before the immersion of the image. <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.esamskriti.com\/html\/new_inside.asp?cat_name=cultphil&#038;cid=420&#038;sid=8006\">source<\/a><BR><br \/>\n <BR><br \/>\n5. Sacred Trees of the Hindus &#8211; by Dr Satish Kapoor. Gives mythological &#038; social linkages.<BR><br \/>\n<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.esamskriti.com\/html\/new_inside.asp?cat_name=qanda&#038;cid=236&#038;sid=91\">source<\/a><BR><br \/>\n <BR><br \/>\n <\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HPIKAUAI, HAWAII, August 3, 2003: Our thanks to M P Bhattathiry (mpmahesh@asianetindia.com) for providing the following list of festivals and,&#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-3368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368","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=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}