Source SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, July 31, 2013 (Union Tribune): In a quiet Wednesday morning meeting that featured none of the fireworks of earlier hearings on the same subject, trustees in the Encinitas Union School District accepted a $1.4 million grant to expand a yoga program that had garnered national attention and sparked a lawsuit about religious freedom. The yoga program…
Source INDORE, INDIA, July 31, 2013 (Times of India): Yoga education will be made compulsory in schools of the state from class 1 to V. Addressing a meeting of Madhya Pradesh Yoga Parishad, Chief Minister directed to prepare course for practical and theory for Yoga education. Chouhan said that yoga education should be imparted from childhood so that its foundation…
Source DEHRADUN, INDIA, August 2, 2013 (The Hindu): “Prayers in the Kedarnath temple will start from September 11,” said Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna here on Friday. Ganesh Godiyal, president of the Badrinath-Kedarnath Temple Committee, said, “A meeting will be held between August 25 and 30 to review the situation of the Kedarnath Valley and a final decision will be…
Source Do everything with full attention. Nothing should be done without reverence, for everything is really done unto God. You should not worship God carelessly. It is not that God will punish you, but that you will destroy your own fine sense of values. Don’t trample on greatness in any form. One should have reverence for whatever one does, even…
Source PUNE, INDIA, July 29, 2013 (Times of India): A city-based social enterprise that produces eco-friendly figures of Ganesh Deities is wrapping up its first batch for shipping overseas. The Deities are made of papier-mache. Starting out with a mere 60 clay Deities, the enterprise has now grown to 3,500 Deities this year. “For years, we received requests from devotees…
Source If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.— Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa (1836-1886)
Source UNITED STATES, May 11, 2009 (Gori Girl): Want to settle the debate on how much interracial marriage there is in the US? I know I’m tired of hearing the occasional uninformed comment on how South Asians just don’t marry people outside their ethnicity, and isn’t it downright odd that my supposedly proud-of-his-Indian-heritage husband would do so? Well, the statistics…
Source KATHMANDU, NEPAL, August 1,2013 (Malay Mail Oline): The UN’s cultural body has voiced alarm at the building of a giant crematorium within a fabled temple complex in Nepal, worried it will become an eyesore at one of the world’s holiest Hindu sites. Pashupatinath, a temple complex which sprawls over a 2.6 square-kilometer area near Kathmandu on the banks of…
Source If you believe everything you read, you had better not read.— Japanese Proverb
KAUAI, HAWAII, August 1, 2013: Is there an issue with a Hindu angle you’d like to see investigated? Hindu organization profiled? Influential Hindu leader interviewed? Inspiring story to reveal about ordinary Hindus? A part of our great Hindu heritage to explore? Let us know at Hinduism Today and we may add the suggestion to our 2014 roster of stories. Contact…