Source CHINO HILLS, CALIFORNIA, December 23, 2012 (baps.org): After six years of unflinching dedication and thousands of hours of volunteer work, the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, in Chino Hills, California stood glistening under the sun as the much anticipated inauguration ceremony started on the morning of December 23, 2012. Sadguru Pujya Kothari Swami (Pujya Bhaktipriya Swami) performed the consecration ceremony…
Source It is far easier to conquer others than to conquer oneself, because the former can be attained by recourse to outside means, while the latter can be achieved only with one’s own mind.— Mahatma Gandhi(1869-1948)
Source By constantly repeating, “I am free, I am free,” a man verily becomes free. On the other hand, by constantly repeating, “I am bound, I am bound,” he certainly becomes bound. The fool who says only, “I am a sinner, I am a sinner,” verily drowns himself in worldliness. One should rather say: “I praise the name of God.…
Source USA, December 18, 2012 (Washington Post): An extraordinary photo of Mount Everest has been produced by David Breashears. He has already climbed the highest mountain in the world five times. He used old images of Everest and its glaciers and combined them with new ones. The photo is part of a broader project called GlacierWorks by the mountaineer Breashears,…
Source CALIFORNIA, U.S., December 23, 2012 (Himalayan Academy): On the weekend of December 22-23, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, Publisher of Hinduism Today, and Sannyasin Senthilnathaswami attended the inauguration of the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Chino Hills, near Los Angeles, California. Saturday they toured the mandir and conducted a series of interviews for an article in Hinduism Today about the temple,…
Source Just as a big banyan tree sprouts from a tiny seed, so the wide universe with names and forms sprouts forth from the heart.— Sri Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950), South Indian mystic
Source December 18, 2012 (ndtv.com): (HPI note: This report is on the same study cited above, but with a different focus.) People with no religious affiliation make up the third-largest global group in a new study of the size of the world’s faiths, placing after Christians and Muslims and just before Hindus. The study, based on extensive data for the…
Source WASHINGTON, U.S., December 19, 2012 (Deccan Herald): Hinduism is the third largest religion of the world after Christianity and Islam and 97 per cent of all Hindus live in three Hindu-majority countries – India, Nepal and Mauritius, according to a study. Pew demographic study – based on analysis of more than 2,500 censuses, surveys and population registers – finds…
Source The mystery is no mystery to the mystic.— Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001), founder of Hinduism Today
NEW DELHI, INDIA, December 22, 2012 (India Times): Google has marked the 125th birth anniversary of Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan with a doodle. The maths wizard was born on December 22, 1887 in Erode, Madras Presidency (now Tamil Nadu), and his birthday is celebrated as National Mathematics Day by the Indian government. Ramanujan was a mathematics prodigy who was introduced…