Source LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS, December 4, 2013 (brill.com): The five-volume Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism -with first volume published in 2009 and to be completed in 2013 with Vol. 5- is a thematic encyclopedia, presenting the latest research on all the main aspects of the Hindu traditions in original essays written by the world’s foremost scholars on Hinduism. The Encyclopedia explicitly…
Source ALLAHABAD, INDIA, December 3, 2013 (Indian Express): A red sandalwood rosary, which is said to have been given to Sant Kabir in the 15th century by his guru, has gone missing from the sanctum of Kabir Ashram in the Chetganj area of Varanasi. A monk and two of his accomplices, said to be hailing from Thailand and regular visitors…
Source “Think twice before you talk. Think thrice before you act.”— Sri Sri Sri Sivaratnapuri, Tiruchi Mahaswamigal, spiritual head of Kailasa Ashrama, Bangalore
Source BANGALORE, November 16, 2013 (New Indian Express): It may be of considerable interest in these days of national awakening to consider in brief the theory of nationalism propounded by Swami Vivekananda, one of the greatest of India’s national leaders in modern times. Under the state of affairs obtaining at present in our country, we are accustomed to equate a…
Source MALAYSIA, 03 Dec 2013,(by Lim Guan Eng, Malaysia Chronicle): Malaysians are shocked that an ancient Hindu temple (Candi) belonging to the Sri Vijaya era, about 1200 years, was demolished by a developer to make way for a housing project in Sungei Batu area of Kedah. This was one of the temples rebuilt in the 1970s using materials from the…
Source Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.— Rabindranath Tagore, (1861-1941) celebrated Bengali writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.
Source PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FLORIDA, November 30, 2103 (Jacksonvill.com): The distance was short but the trip was long, with music, dancing and “I love Puja and Deepak” (the bride and groom) sunglasses. It took half an hour or more for Tiny — an elephant — to carry Deepak Dugar across a Ponte Vedra Beach parking lot Saturday to meet his…
Source PUNE, INDAI, November 24, 2013 (Indian Express): Leading up to Sadhu Vaswani’s 134th birth anniversary on November 25, a five-day celebration commenced on Wednesday with a peace march. On Saturday, a Rath Yatra, a chariot of peace for the unity of all religions, was also organized from Sadhu Vaswani’s Sacred Samadhi. Carrying the life-like statue of Sadhu Vaswani, the…
Source PEARLAND, TEXAS, November 14, 2013 (Indo American News): Sri Meenakshi Temple is celebrating the renovation of its original Ganesh Temple with the newly constructed granite sanctum and facility. As dictated by the traditional religious mores of Agama Sastras, consecration and sanctification of the new Sannidhi will be dedicated through the ritualistic grandeur of the Kumbabhishekam. The festivities are planned…
Source SELANGOR, MALAYSIA, November 26, 2013 (The Star): The Selangor government has decided to only award financial assistance to Hindu temples registered with the Malaysian Hindu Sangam. In announcing the decision, Selangor executive councillor for poverty and estate affairs V. Ganabatirau said the Negri Sembilan, Perak and Malacca state governments had already implemented this. “Hindu Sangam is the umbrella body…