Source ATHENS, GREECE, June 3, 2020 (Urdu Point): Greece’s influential church on Wednesday said it strongly frowned upon the use of yoga to combat quarantine stress, calling it “absolutely incompatible” with Christian faith. The Orthodox Church is one of the most powerful institutions in Greece, with influence in politics and justice, and actively tries to avert perceived proselytizing by other…
Source MANDSAUR, INDIA, June 14, 2020 (Business Insider): As religious places are being reopened for devotees after easing of restrictions, a famous Shiva temple in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur has installed a bell with a sensor, which can ring without the need for physically touching it. This contactless bell, developed by an elderly Muslim man, has been fitted at the famous…
Source UNITED KINGDOM, July 14, 2015 (youtube): India’s share of the world economy when Britain arrived on its shores was 23%, by the time the British left it was down to below 4%. Why? Simply because India had been governed for the benefit of Britain. Britain’s rise for 200 years was financed by its deprivations in India and other colonies.…
Source Do you realize now the sacred significance and the supreme importance of the guru’s role in the evolution of man? It was not without reason that the India of the past carefully tended and kept alive the lamp of guru-tattva. It is therefore not without reason that India, year after year, age after age, commemorates anew this ancient concept…
Source USA, June 3, 2020 (HPI): This short video recounts the first atomic bomb test, July 16, 1945, in New Mexico, and includes video of Robert Oppenheimer explaining why he quoted from the Bhagavad Gita following the successful explosion of the first atomic bomb. Oppenheimer was a student of Sanskrit. Wikipedia states: Oppenheimer later recalled that, while witnessing the explosion,…
Source MANGALURU, INDIA, June 1, 2020 (Times of India): The temples coming under the Muzrai department in Karnataka suffered a loss of nearly US$79.5 million revenue during the lockdown period due to the pandemic, state Muzrai minister Kota Srinivas Poojary said Monday. Addressing reporters here, he said the Kollur Sri Mookambika temple alone lost a revenue of at least $1.854…
Source Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with wool to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.— Sri Ramana Maharishi (1879-1950), South Indian mystic
Source HOUSTON, TEXAS, May 26, 2020 (India Herald): Since the early days of the pandemic, Hindus of Greater Houston (HGH) has channeled the community’s combined resources into multiple food drives, distribution of PPE’s and actively fundraising to help Houstonians impacted by the economic shutdown. About $100,000 has been raised by HGH to date for Sewa International and other organizations for…
Source GEORGETOWN, MALAYSIA, May 29, 2020 (The Star): The Penang Hindu Endowment Board (PHEB) will recommend to the state government against the reopening of temples in Penang. PHEB chairman Dr P. Ramasamy said the board would submit the recommendation during the state Covid-19 meeting on June 2. “The conditional movement control order (MCO) is still in force and reopening the…
Source Enquire: ‘Who am I?’ and you will find the answer. Look at a tree: from one seed arises a huge tree; from it comes numerous seeds, each one of which in its turn grows into a tree. No two fruits are alike. Yet it is one life that throbs in every particle of the tree. So, it is the…