Source CHENNAI, INDIA, January 19, 2014 (The Hindu): Property worth US$4 million in the heart of the city belonging to the Kapaleeswarar temple was recovered by the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department on Saturday. Encroachments, including a mechanics shop, were removed from the property on Bughs Road in R.A. Puram near Greenways Road. A compound wall is being constructed…
Source I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England. After my return, every particle of dust of this land seems sacred to me.— Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)
Source BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, January 23, 2014 (Narthaki, by Dr. Sunil Kothari, photos at source): The Mukteswar Dance Festival was held in Bhubaneswar in a specially constructed open air auditorium with the backdrop of the 10th century Odishan architectural marvel of Mukteswar Temple. With the winter chill, the mystic ambience and surrounding small temples created a visual treat. It was Sankaranti…
Source NETHERLANDS, October 10, 2012 (SAND): This video is a lecture by physicist Menas Kafatos given and the 2012 Science and Nonduality Conference held in the Netherlands. It is quite a startling comparison of discoveries and concepts in Quantum Physics with ancient Hindu views of the universe and consciousness. Well worth watching.
Source TAMIL, NADU, INDIA, January 20, 2014 (The Hindu, by Dr. Subramanian Swamy, is a former Union Minister and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party): The Supreme Court delivered a landmark judgment on January 6, 2013, allowing my Special Leave Petition that sought the quashing of the Tamil Nadu Government’s G.O. of 2006 which had mandated the government takeover…
Source VELLORE, INDIA, January 23, 2014 (The Hindu): Residents of Ayyanur, about three miles west of Ambur, thought of a novel but hi-tech idea of retaining a small 300-year-old Amman temple when the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) decided to demolish it to facilitate the widening of the four-lane Chennai-Bangalore National Highway into a six-lane highway. R. Moorthy, president…
Source UNITED STATES, January 26, 2014 (youtube): This 2008 video describes Super Brain Yoga as a simple and effective technique to energize and recharge the brain. It is based on the principle of subtle energy and ear acupuncture. The exercise is intended to pump up cell and neuron activity in the brain. Alzheimer patients, seniors looking to stave off memory…
Source UNITED STATES, January 27, 2014 (The Hindu): The Iowa-based institutions of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi have confirmed that at least 130 Indian religious scholars known as Vedic pandits have gone missing in recent years, after arriving in the U.S. to pursue programs of religious learning, even as one of the institutions’ officials described some media reports alleging ill-treatment as “replete…
Source CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, January 26, 2014 (NDTV): In a shocking revelation, as many as 163 Indians, most of them brought to the US as teenagers from villages in northern India to be trained into Vedic Pandits by two institutions set up by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi of transcendental meditation fame, appear to have gone missing over the last 12 months. Of…
Source Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.— Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)