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Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Not yet settled in a permanent home, the soul takes temporary shelter in a body.    Tirukural, Verse 340

Source: himalayanacademy.com KAUAI, HI, USA, June 26, 2009: Tirumala’s Lord Venkateshwara Temple has recently announce plans to golf-plate much of its most sacred areas. It is a project of gigantic proportions, using 300kg of gold. But it is possible to make your temple look golden with much less than that–actually, at an affordable price. Kadavul temple, on the island of…

Source: www.hinduonnet.com DINDIGUL, TAMIL NADU, INDIA, June 22, 2009: A glass bead-making unit and an Iron Age graveyard, both about 2,500 years old, have been unearthed during the ongoing excavation in and around Porunthal, Tamil Nadu, an archaeology expert said. The excavation made at Paasi Medu (bead mound) venue, a site spread over 13.5 acres on the ancient East-West Trade…

Source: news.bbc.co.uk June 24, 2009: If you want to get someone to do something, ask them in their right ear, say scientists. In three differently designed tests, researchers found that requests spoken into to the right ear were more effective than those spoken into the left ear. “These results seem to be consistent with the hypothesized specialization of right and…

Source: www.hinduonnet.com DINDIGUL, TAMIL NADU, INDIA, June 22, 2009: A glass bead-making unit and an Iron Age graveyard, both about 2,500 years old, have been unearthed during the ongoing excavation in and around Porunthal, Tamil Nadu, an archaeology expert said. The excavation made at Paasi Medu (bead mound) venue, a site spread over 13.5 acres on the ancient East-West Trade…

Source: positivediscipline.ning.com USA, June 25, 2009: Jane Nelsen, an expert in education and the author of “Positive Discipline,” is launching in her website a group for Hindu parents seeking advice on how to educate their children. They can share their experiences and ask for expert guidance, connecting with loving parents everywhere. Hinduism Today’s founder, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, years ago started…

Source: www.hinduismtoday.com The learned have prescribed penance for the murderer of a pious man, a drunkard, a thief or for one who has violated a solemn vow. But there is no pardon for the ungrateful.    The Panchatantra

Source: www.hinduonnet.com DINDIGUL, INDIA, June 22, 2009: A glass bead-making unit and an Iron Age graveyard, both about 2,500 years old, have been unearthed during the ongoing excavation in and around Porunthal, an archaeology expert said. The excavation made at Paasi Medu (bead mound) venue, a site spread over 13.5 acres on the ancient East-West Trade route linking Tamil Nadu…

Source: internationalreporter.com NEW ZEALAND, June 22, 2009: Indian students might prefer New Zealand for higher studies and immigration after they were being targeted in Australia. Though New Zealand is close to Australia, there is marked difference in the country’s attitude towards multi-ethnic society and tolerant towards Asian race. New Zealand has a society more favorable to Indian Hindus,according to New…

Source: news.bbc.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, June 22, 2009: In Hereford, Texas, the Panda Energy Company, which has a series of successful plants across the United States, wanted to use the town’s plentiful supply of manure–courtesy of the hundreds of thousands of cattle that use its massive feed yards–to power the process of extracting ethanol from corn. Hereford’s feed yards would lose…