Source COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, August 9, 2014 (SF Gate): Early this month, Sri Lankan Hindus in this country’s capital, Colombo, celebrated the Vel Hindu festival, which commemorates the victory of Sri Murugan, the Hindu God of War, over the forces of evil. Celebrations are scheduled to continue for several weeks. The festival begins with Sri Murugan’s silver-plated chariot and spear…
Source PUNE, INDIA, August 20, 2014 (ibnlive.in): One of India’s best known Yyoga gurus, BKS Iyengar, passed away on Wednesday in Pune. He was 96 years old. Iyengar was diagnosed with heart pumping failure and had suffered two heart attacks, one in 1998 and one 2000. The founder of the school of Iyengar Yoga and considered to be the father…
Source SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, August 16, 2014 (The Australian): Indian police have revealed that an 1,100-year-old Hindu sculpture of Shiva with His hands broken off was stolen from beneath a peepol tree in a Tamil Nadu temple complex, after it was taken outside for unauthorized repairs. The solid, 44 inch-high stone carving was then smuggled from India to New York, where…
Source I felt great need of a holy pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.— Saint Kabir (1440-1518)
Source INDIA, August 7, 2014 (Russia & India Report): After seeing the effects of yoga on his students, Konstantin Stanislavsky (Russian actor and theater director) quickly started using it even more: in actors’ trainings in the Second Studio (which was established in 1916) and the Opera Studio (founded in 1918), and for the work of the actors in the MAT…
Source The Eternal Religion, the religion of the rishis, has been in existence from time immemorial and will exist eternally. There exists in this Sanatana Dharma all forms of worship–worship of God with form and worship of the impersonal Deity as well. It contains all paths–the path of knowledge, the path of devotion and so on. Other forms of religion,…
Source PYIN OO LWIN, MYANMAR (BURMA), June 5, 2014 (The Irrawaddy): In Pyin Oo Lwin, a former British hill station located on the western edge of the Shan Plateau, several thousand devotees gathered in June for a festival to mark the completion of a four-year-long renovation of the town’s Hindu Ganesh temple. The festival called Shree Ma Harr Kubar Auisha…
BANGLADESH, August 15, 2014 (Sant Mahamandal): A federation of saints organization, Bangladesh Sant Mahamandal (BSM) and the Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities (HRCBM) in its joint meeting on June 15, 2014 resolved to rebuild the Ramna Kali Mandir. A joint statement will be issued to appeal to the Hindu community of Bangladesh and abroad for their cooperation and donations…
Source Do not say that you do not have time for God. The busiest of men will have the most leisure, and the laziest will always be short of time, for the former utilizes time and the latter only wastes it. If you really want God, you will find time for Him.— Sri Chandrasekhara Bharati (1912-1954), 34th pontiff of the…
Source PUNE, INDIA, August 13, 2014 (Indian Express): Yogacharya B K S Iyengar, 96, was admitted to the critical care unit of a private hospital on Tuesday afternoon after he complained of breathlessness. Doctors said he was stable and conscious and was being treated. Bellur Krishnamachari Sundararaja Iyengar, the founder of Iyengar Yoga, is considered one of the foremost yoga…