Daily Inspiration

Source A wicked person, though powerless himself, instigates others to injure people. A piece of stone, itself incapable of cutting, whets the edge of a sword. — Subhasita Ratnabhandagaram

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Daily Inspiration

Source Life should be dynamic, full of movement, flowing endlessly like the mighty Ganges. Life’s movement should be channelled in the right direction. Life becomes a burden for many people because it has lost its dynamism. For them life is not like a flowing river. It is a static, turbid puddle.Understand that action gives movement to life, knowledge gives it…

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Daily Inspiration

Source When we engage every moment without the cares and fears of the beyond, we are able to harness the spirit of sadhana, and every moment is filled with Divinity. Swamini Mayatitananda Saraswati, spiritual head of Wise Earth Monastery and Mother Om Mission, Candler, North Carolina

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Daily Inspiration

Source Knowing others is wisdom; knowing the Self is enlightenment. Mastering others requires force; mastering the Self needs strength.— Lao-Tsu (ca 600 bce), Chinese philosopher who inspired Taoism

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Thai-Cambodia Clashes Continue For 7th Day

Source PHANOM DONGRAK, THAILAND, April 27, 2011: Artillery fire boomed across the Thai-Cambodian frontier for a seventh day Thursday as fierce border clashes erupted again between the two neighbors. The border dispute has stirred nationalist sentiment on both sides. In Cambodia, field commander Col. Suos Sothea said the fighting was centering again around the ruins of two crumbling stone temples…

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Tamil Religious Lessons To Be Held In Schools Soon

Source MALAYSIA, April 15, 2011 (The Star): The Malaysia Hindu Sangam is taking the necessary action to ensure Tamil religious classes are held in schools and temples nationwide by next year. It quoted its president R.S. Mohan Shan as saying that the organization would have 2,500 locally-trained religious teachers to conduct the classes in the next five years. Shan said…

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New Methods of Proselytization

Source INDIA, April 3, 2011: Christian missionaries have adopted the latest marketing strategy to hoodwink the gullible, poor, uneducated Hindus in Bangalore by offering plain cash prizes for those who dump the photos of Hindu Gods and replace them with photos of Jesus in their houses. And a bonus cash prize will be offered to those Hindus who wear a…

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Indian Tattoos–Traces Of The Divine

Source BANGKOK, THAILAND, April 11, 2011 (Bangkok Post): Girish Giridhara’s arms are tattooed with Hindu Gods, Goddesses and sacred mantras. The spiritual designs are intricate but also hardly surprising for a man who once trained to be a priest. The 36-year-old tattoo artist was an exhibitor at the Indian Ink tattoo convention. The exhibition in Mumbai this weekend is billed…

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