Source UNITED KINGDOM, September 22, 2020 (Dezeen): The next Open House London documentary offers a glimpse of Neasden Temple, a place of worship in northwest London that was built using ancient Hindu texts and 26,000 pieces of stone. Filmed by Jim Stephenson, the documentary is one of nine videos that will feature on Dezeen throughout Open House London 2020 to…
Source CHENNAI, INDIA, September 25, 2020 (Daily Pioneer): The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday delivered a verdict with respect to the holy shrine of Lord Muruga at Palani Hills in Tamil Nadu by cancelling the tender issued by the executive officer to appoint contractors for providing house keeping services in the temple and establishments attached to…
Source Hinduism today is a religion of today and tomorrow. It is not just a religion of history books and yesterday. Our religion gives us strength today. It is a religion which worships one Supreme God, with vast scriptures that prescribe the worship and illumine our minds with knowledge about the one Supreme God. Never forget this. Never forsake your…
Source BALI, INDONESIA, September 23, 2020 (ABC News): Bebalang village is best known to tourists as a stop on Bali’s Eat, Pray, Love tour for fans of Elizabeth Gilbert’s famous memoir. But now this small village at Bangli, north-east of Ubud, is the final destination for scores of victims dying from suspected Covid-19. It is a grim turn of events…
Source On the pathway of spiritual excellence, words that discourage and those that publicize faults of others are lethal poisons.— His Divine Holiness Pramukh Swami Maharaj, spiritual head of Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha
Source UNITED KINGDOM, September 19, 2020 (BBC): Three bronze sculptures stolen from a southern Indian temple more than 40 years ago were found in the UK and returned to Indian government officials this week. The bronze sculptures represent some of Hinduism’s most revered Deities — Lord Ram, his wife Sita and his brother Lakshman, all part of the same set…
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 UNITED STATES, September 18, 2020 (Indology Academy): (HPI note: Wikipedia defines “negationism” as “a distortion of the historical record.”) Indology Academy is offering a one credit hour academic equivalent course titled “Rectifying Historiography: Diagnosing and Remedying Holy War Negationism in India”. A brief description states: Dr. Koenraad Elst teaches a course focusing on the willful distortions in the recent…
Source UNITED STATES, August 28, 2020 (New York Times): Divinity consultants are designing sacred rituals for corporations and their spiritually depleted employees. Blending the obscure language of the sacred with the also obscure language of management consulting, the agencies provide corporations a range of spiritually inflected services. A new corporate clergy has arisen to formalize the remote work life. They…
Source The atman in you is that which indwells all things.” “Tell me, Yajnavalkya, about this atman that indwells all things.” “It is that which transcends hunger and thirst, sorrow and delusion, old age and death.”— Brihadaranyaka Upanishad III, 5A