The Arts
Dharma’s Puzzle Pioneer
If you find it difficult to solve the special crossword puzzle on the right, (please see hard copy) consider yourself [&…
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July, 1997
20 articles
Temples & Pilgrimage
Puja: With Honor, Offer Everything
BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR Honoring is a sign of divine love. That honoring is called puja. The ceremony of […]
The Arts
Reborn as An Artist
By LAVINA MELWANI, NEW YORK You can call it his brush with death. Three years ago, noted Delhi artist Satish […]
July, 1997
Digital Dharma
PROTECTION WEB POLICE The World Wide Web's doors have been wide open to anyone, including children, who want to pla…
Teaching & Parenting
Precious Precepts
Be they in India or transported to other cultures of the world, today’s Hindu youth are routinely tempted by Weste…
Publisher's Editorials
Meditation: the Key Is Preparation
BY SATGURU SIVAYA SUBRAMUNIYASWAMI Meditation is a long journey, a pilgrimage into the mind itself. Generally, we become…
Culture & Society
Cult Status Denied
By the Editor From the Office of Cult Regulation and Licensing United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC To Ac…
July, 1997
Letters
IMPACTING INDIA The Publisher’s Desk articles are fantastic. Gurudeva is really bringing forward the pure teaching…
July, 1997
Diaspora
SRI LANKA War’s Ravages Finally Told For years media observers were barred from entry into the war-torn Jaffna are…
July, 1997
Quotes & Quips
"We should yearn for the Divine Spirit with confidence and with a feeling of closeness as to a father and [……
Personal Practice
This Suicide Got No One to Heaven
BY SWAMI BRAHMAVIDYANANDA SARASWATI For the media to associate the lunacy of Heaven’s Gate suicides with Eastern b…
Philosophy & Scripture
That Old-Time Religion
By JESSICA SAUNDERS, Associated Press Judge Roy Moore displays a plaque of the Christian Ten Commandments in his courtro…
July, 1997
Briefly . . .
H.H. SHANKARACHARYA Jayendra Saraswati, Peethadiswar of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, visited Nepal "to offer his bl…
Temples & Pilgrimage
Kerala Siva Temples
By VRINDAVANAM S. GOPALAKRISHNAN Two thousand and more timber temples dot Kerala’s verdant landscape. Devotee̵…
Philosophy & Scripture
The Spaceship Suicide
On March 23, 1997, the first 15 members of Heaven’s Gate, a self-described “cult of cults,” mixed phen…
Culture & Society
Reaching Out
By LILADHAR J. BHARADIA, KENYA With garlands in hand, Hindus and non-Hindus, VIPs and well-wishers gathered on January 1…
The Arts
Hindu Protest Forces Sony to Remake CD
Aerosmith’s latest cd, “Nine lives” went straight to the top of the pop charts when it was released Ma…
July, 1997
Evolutions
AWARDED: Dr. Purushottamlal Bhargava by Indian President Shankar Dayal Sharma, for his eminence in Sanskrit scholarship …
Teaching & Parenting
To Beat or Not to Beat?
He calls it the conspiracy of silence: the universal and chronic use of corporal punishment in America. Prof. Murray A. …
Health & Ayurveda
Ayurvedic Principles For Pubescence
By Devananda Tandavan We have emphasized that exercise is very important for boys and girls going through puberty. Exerc…