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Source “I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.”— Mira Bai (1500-1550), princess of Rajasthan, Northwest India, a saint celebrated for her lyrical poetry dedicated to Krishna

Source KAUAI, HAWAII, April 25, 2021 (Hinduism Today, by the editor): Deep within the granite mountains of Colorado, where you might expect to find a secret Defense Department arsenal of missiles awaiting the end of the Cold War thaw, lies another kind of stockpile. It is a dark, clinically sterile series of cold chambers, kept meticulously at -18 degrees centigrade…

Source The boundless ocean of births can be crossed, indeed, but not without intimate union with Infinity’s Holy Feet.— Tirukkural

Source SRINAGAR, INDIA, April 23, 2021 (Deccan Chronicle): The registration for this year’s Amarnath yatra has been suspended temporarily in view of the grim and worrisome COVID-19 situation across the country. Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) on Thursday announced that it is constantly monitoring the situation and that the registration would be restarted once it improves. The annual pilgrimage spreading…

Source They alone dispel the mind’s distress who take refuge at the Feet of the Incomparable One.— Tirukkural

Source INDIA, April 19, 2021 (Hinduism Today, by Tirtho Bannerji): The most ubiquitous books found in Hindu households throughout India are the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita and Ramcharitmanas, often side by side with the booklet Hanuman Chalisa. A majority of these come from Gita Press in Gorakhpur. Why is that? Their nominal price is a key reason, but it’s also because…

Source AFGHANISTAN, April 19, 2021 (Up News Info): For half a century, through war, anarchy and upheaval, Afghanistan has been stripped of tens of thousands of Buddhist and Hindu antiquities, some dating back more than 1,800 years. Many of those items entered the Western market in the 1990s and early 2000s, St John Simpson, a curator at the British Museum,…

Source HARIDWAR, INDIA, April 19 2021 (Business Standard): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday had appealed to the sadhus to observe the remaining duration of the Kumbh Mela only in a symbolic manner. There is hardly any crowd now at the bathing ghats where droves of sadhus and common devotees had gathered for a dip in the river on the…

Source What has learning profited a man, if it has not led him to worship the Good Feet of Him who is pure knowledge itself?— Tirukkural

Source BELGRADE, SERBIA, January 27, 2021 (Bharata Bharati by Zvonimir Kostic): Of all the Indo-European people, Slavs are the ones who inhabit the largest territory on the Euro-Asian continent today. Also, Slavs are the most numerous ethno-linguistic group on the European continent. There are about 300 million of them today. Slavic peoples are traditionally divided into Eastern Slavs (Russians, Belarus,…