Source KARACHI, PAKISTAN, December 19, 2013 (Outlook India): A large number of Pakistani Hindus today joined a protest outside the Press Club here over the demolition of an 80-year-old temple in the city’s Soldier Bazar area. The Krishna or Rama Peer Mandir at Dholi Khata in Soldier Bazar has become a bone of contention between the minority Hindu community and…
Source The sages, being filled with universal love for all beings, did not want to keep their enlightenment to themselves. They declared to all: “O mortals, striving and struggling upon this Earth plane, weeping, wailing, buffeted by the vicissitudes of life: we have come upon a great discovery. There is something beyond these appearances, these vanishing names and forms that…
Source WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND, December 12, 2013 (Times Of India): The population of Indian ethnic group in New Zealand has risen by 48 percent to 155,000, latest census statistics show. The Chinese population rose by 16 percent to 171,000 while the number of Filipinos more than doubled to 40,000, reports Xinhua. New Zealand authorities said the country has more ethnic…
Source TENERIFE, CANARY ISLANDS, November 3, 2013 (By Lawrence Ylenia, La Opinion): The Adeje City Council has approved the transfer of a plot of government property measuring 7,400 square meters to the Hindu Cultural Center to build a new temple and leisure facilities. The local socialist government decision has triggered criticism from the political opposition which does not look favorably…
Source CAMBODIA, December 5, 2013 (Global Times): More than 300 national and international archeologists and cultural experts gathered here on Thursday to exchange views and design a new-decade action plan on the protection and preservation of the Angkor Wat Temple, a World Heritage site. Among the foreign guests at the Third Inter-Governmental Conference on the Angkor are French Minister of…
Source Devotion must not be like the flood of the rainy season in which all get washed away. Devotion should be like the river that retains water even in the hottest season.— Saint Kabir (1440-1518)
Source CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, December 11, 2013 (Today): Chicago’s O’Hare International, one of the country’s busiest and most stressful airports, took a decidedly Zen turn today with the opening of a yoga room in Terminal 3, adjacent to the airport’s indoor urban garden. “The yoga room provides a space for yoga practice as well as a place to relax or meditate,”…
Source CHENNAI, INDIA, December 15, 2013 (Vedic Granth): The late scholar M.R. Jambunathan’s full translations of the four Vedas are available now for free at “source” above. The following article on the pundit appeared in April, 2012, in The Hindu newspaper (http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/history-and-culture/article3273061.ece): M. R. Jambunathan (1896-1974) was born in a learned family of Vedic scholars of Manakkal, Tiruchirapalli District, Tamil…
Source UNITED STATES, December 12, 2013 (New York Times): An ancient statue of a Hindu warrior, pulled from auction two years ago because of assertions that it had been looted from a temple deep in the jungles of Cambodia, will be returned to that country under an agreement signed on Thursday by Sotheby’s, its client and federal officials. The accord…
Source The practice of yoga is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down a divine nature into the life of humanity. It is not personal ananda, but the bringing down of the divine ananda, the Satya…