Source BALI, INDONESIA, June 18, 2013 (The Jakarta Post):The second World Hindu Summit has agreed to establish the World Hindu Parisad, a Hindu organization discussion and deliberation forum aiming to expand the network of Hindu devotees around the globe. In addition, the 500 Hindu leaders and scholars from all over the world also established the World Hindu Center, the implementing…
Source In the house of the seer there are five cows (the five senses), which without a cowherd wander everywhere. If they were controlled and their thirst quenched, they would give milk.— Tirumantiram, a sacred mystical treatise by Rishi Tirumular.
Source KAUAI, HAWAII, June 18, 2013 (HPI): The July/August/September, 2013, edition of Hinduism’s award-winning spiritual magazine, Hinduism Today, has been released in digital form and is now available for free on your desktop. You can read articles online or download the PDF or ePub and enjoy it on your iPad. We broke most of our rules in this one. And…
Source One does not suddenly reach a point where desire goes away. Desire is life. Desire can be directed according to the personal will. Through sadhana you can gain mastery over all the forces of your mind and body.— Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001), founder of Hinduism Today
Source UNITED KINGDOM, June 14, 2013 (BBC): India’s population is forecast to continue to grow until 2050, according to the United Nations. India looks set to overtake China as the world’s most populous country from 2028, according to the United Nations. At that point, both nations will number 1.45 billion people each. Subsequently India’s population will continue to grow until…
Source BUTTERWORTH, MALAYSIA, June 14, 2013 (nst.com): A 100,000 strong crowd — largely made up of Hindu devotees, while people of other faiths included locals and tourists from Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Nepal and India — thronged the Arulmigu Sree Maha Mariamman Devasthanam temple for the annual seven-day fire-walking festival here recently. The festival started with a fire-walking ritual…
Source By practicing tolerance of those who insult us, we will feel honor and insult as the same. Just as we feel good when someone praises us, we should feel just as good when we are insulted. Stability in honor or insult is the ability to still have love for our aggressor.— Sri Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Spiritual Guru of BAPS…
Source JAMAICA, NEW YORK, June 1, 2013 (press release): The 2nd Hindu Mandir Priests’ Conference concluded at the Shri Surya Narayan Mandir here in Jamaica. The Conference was hosted by the Shri Surya Narayan Mandir, in collaboration with the Bhavaanee Maa Mandir, the New York Sanatana Mandir and the United Community Mandir under the auspices of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad…
Source AIZAWL, INDIA, May 23, 2013 (Mizo News): The Assam Rifles temple inside the Assam Rifle Compound in Aizawl was attacked on Thursday morning around 1:30 am with a gelatin bomb. No casualties have been reported in the incident. However, the bomb destroyed 26 glass panes, sources said. As soon as the report reached the police they rushed to the…
Source You may develop a thousand virtues and be reckoned as the greatest in the land. But the lotus of your heart will not blossom until you receive the grace of the Guru, the grace of God!— Dada Sadhu Vaswani