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March, 1998

22 articles

Blessed Blisters
Temples & Pilgrimage

Blessed Blisters

By RAJIV MALIK, NEW DELHI In Delhi I am used to a very comfortable lifestyle,” said Delhi businessman Navin Yadav,…

March 1, 1998
The Goodness of Guggal
Health & Ayurveda

The Goodness of Guggal

Alternative medical practitioners share a common fate in America–they often serve as a “last resource”…

March 1, 1998
The Breath of God Is Our Breath of Life
Philosophy & Scripture

The Breath of God Is Our Breath of Life

By PARAMAHAMSA HARIHARANANDA God is all-pervading, omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent. Where is He not? He is present i…

March 1, 1998
March, 1998

Digital Dharma

CD-ROM Yummy for the Tummy Solve that quandary of what to cook tonight by tapping Indian culinary queen Tarla Dalal&apos…

March 1, 1998
March, 1998

Briefly

SUNDERLAL BAHUGUNA ENDED his fast at the work site of the controversial Tehri Dam on the Ganges River in the […]

March 1, 1998
March, 1998

EVOLUTIONS

PASSED ON: Sadguru Sant Keshavadas, age sixty-three, at 2:20pm on December 4, 1997, in Vishakhapatnam, India, where he h…

March 1, 1998
Diaspora
March, 1998

Diaspora

GUADELOUPE Roving Pandit As a symbol of Guadeloupe’s nascent Hindu renaissance, visiting Pandit Dwivedi Shastri pr…

March 1, 1998
Everyone Has a Guru, Knowingly or Not
Publisher's Editorials

Everyone Has a Guru, Knowingly or Not

BY SATGURU SIVAYA SUBRAMUNIYASWAMI Sri Sri Sri Vishvaguru Maha-Maharajji is seen in the picture to the right with me in …

March 1, 1998
One Day My Religion Will Rule the World
Philosophy & Scripture

One Day My Religion Will Rule the World

By the Editor Harvard University’s groundbreaking project on religious pluralism in America [see “Stirring U…

March 1, 1998
Stirring Up the Melting Pot
Philosophy & Scripture

Stirring Up the Melting Pot

By LAVINA MELWANI, NEW YORK You are about to go on a pilgrimage. Not to India’s Kashi or Vrindavan, but […]

March 1, 1998
Letters
March, 1998

Letters

DECEMBER 25TH’S PAGAN ROOTS In reference to your editorial [it’s Chrismastime in the Ashram Again, December,…

March 1, 1998
March, 1998

Quotes & Quips

"THERE IS ENOUGH IN THIS WORLD FOR EVERYONE'S NEED, BUT THERE IS NOT ENOUGH IN THIS WORLD FOR EVERYONE'S …

March 1, 1998
Let’s Go Beyond Tolerance
Philosophy & Scripture

Let’s Go Beyond Tolerance

By LAVINA MELWANI, NEW YORK Imagine being covered in colors from head to toe and having to walk several blocks [……

March 1, 1998
Call for Military Ministers
Philosophy & Scripture

Call for Military Ministers

Armies since ancient times have required the services of religious guides. Consider, for example, Lord Krishna on the ba…

March 1, 1998
The Weaver
Philosophy & Scripture

The Weaver

The Tirukural, “holy couplets,” is a treasury of Hindu ethical insight and a literary masterpiece of the Tam…

March 1, 1998
No Cameras Allowed
Temples & Pilgrimage

No Cameras Allowed

Attending South India’s majestic Hindu temples, such as Madurai’s Meenakshi citadel, evokes profound reveren…

March 1, 1998
Aahh, That’s the Spot!
Environment

Aahh, That’s the Spot!

By Hema Shukla, Associated Press Under the shade of a mango grove in eastern India, four men leisurely haggle over [&hel…

March 1, 1998
Not for Women Only
Philosophy & Scripture

Not for Women Only

By POORNIMA NARAYANAN, DELHI On a mild winter evening i walked into the home of Madhu Kishwar–social activist, int…

March 1, 1998
Ethical Economics
Philosophy & Scripture

Ethical Economics

By MEENAL PANDYA, Massachusetts At the heart of Hindu economics is this: the test of every policy is not profit, [&helli…

March 1, 1998
March, 1998

God’s Word, Sages’ Voices

Let us now invoke for our aid the Lord of Speech, the Designer of all things that are, the Inspirer […]

March 1, 1998