Culture & Society
Faiths in Conflict
By Ashok Singhal A follow-up report: Millennium World Peace summit of religious and spiritual leaders, August, 2000, New…
Topic
May/June, 2001
26 articles
The Arts
The Krishna Plays
By Kumud Mohan Suddenly there was pin-drop silence. A refined gentleman in a silk kurta and dhoti, a tika, or […]
The Arts
Spreading Joy through Dance
On October 23, 2000 at the famous Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, New York, Sharanya Mukhopadhyay won the Princess [&…
Health & Ayurveda
We Need a Different Sexual Revolution
By Swami Brahmeshananda Etymologically, the word brahmacharya means to dwell in, to be attuned with and to realize one&#…
May/June, 2001
Digital Dharma
RESOURCE Basic Yogas Are you befuddled by the seemingly endless paths and kinds of yogas? Treat yourself to the "Il…
Health & Ayurveda
Schooling the Blind
Since its establishment in 1979, the Navajeevan Blind Relief Centre, located in the famed temple town of Tirupati in Sou…
Saints & Sages
Yogaswami’s World Tour
The 125th birth anniversary of Satguru Siva Yogaswami (1872-1964), the 161st Jagadacharya of the Nandinatha Sampradaya a…
May/June, 2001
How Nice is Spice?
By Tara Katir Many of us today take for grant-ed favorite flavors and foods once unique to small communities across [&he…
Teaching & Parenting
Hindu Girl’s Retreat
By Neesha Alahan In late December, 2000, 13 young devotees of Satguru Sivaya Subramuniya, publisher of Hinduism Today, g…
May/June, 2001
DIASPORA
USA Chinmaya’s New England Estate Andover, Massachusetts, will soon be the site of the Chinmaya Mission Boston. Ob…
Opinion
Nepal’s Meateaters
By Deepa Bhat Last summer for two-and-a-half months I had an eye-opening experience in Nepal, the birthplace of Lord Bud…
Publisher's Editorials
Self-Transformation Through a Daily Vigil
BY SATGURU SIVAYA SUBRAMUNIYASWAMI When we study and practice our religion, we are not necessarily performing deep sadha…
Temples & Pilgrimage
Kumbha Mela 2001
Seventy million Hindus from around the world–the largest human gathering in history–worshiped at the conflue…
May/June, 2001
The One… Tad Ekam
In a period where information has reached its saturation point, when it is practically impossible to know and understand…
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor 5-2001
New High School In Nepal I came to know about the ideals and objectives of your prestigious magazine, HINDUISM TODAY. [&…
Quotes & Quips
QUOTES & QUIPS
"Yoga is love. It is nonviolence at the extreme edge." Mahatma Gandhi Most people, most of the time, are under…
Temples & Pilgrimage
How the Mela Measured Up
How shall we summarize the mela? like the bottom line of an accounting sheet, numbers get right to the point. […]
Temples & Pilgrimage
Our Tour of a Lifetime
By Kailash Dakshinamurthi Pilgrimage. I’ve always begun one with spiritual preparation and an understanding of wha…
Hindu Festivals
Voices From The Mela
The aim should be to establish a kind of life in society by which our whole system of living is […]
Hindu Festivals
How The Media Covered the Mela
Sooner or later, some conscience-struck journalism student will finally send Hinduism Today a copy of “The Journal…
Hindu Festivals
A Mela History
One typical mela pilgrim, an illiterate woman, traveled with her family by crowded bus from West Bengal, slept in the [&…
Philosophy & Scripture
SACRED SAMSKARAS
The best rendering of samskara in English is made by the word “sacrament,” which means “religious cere…
Temples & Pilgrimage
Ram, Ram, Sita-Ram!
By Vatsala Sperling I once asked Jagadguru Jayendra Saraswati, Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, how there coul…
Food & Vegetarianism
Blessed Rice
Deep down beneath the granite mountains of Colorado, where you might expect to find a secret US Defense Department stock…
Teaching & Parenting
Value of Samskaras
By Swami Veda Bharati Excerpts from an interview conducted by Hinduism Today correspondent Rajiv Malik at the 2001 Maha …
Environment
Tesla: Electricity’s Mastermind
By Mark Hawthorne Nikola Tesla is not as famous as his contemporary, Thomas Edison, but his inventions brought the world…