Daily Inspiration
Source Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralyzing ones.— Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)
Preliminary List of Temples with Live Streaming
Source KAUAI, HAWAII, April 18, 2020 (HPI): With help from our readers, we’ve assembled a preliminary list of temples that offer either continuous live streaming or live streaming of specific events during the day. By far the most intense is the famed Somnath temple in Gujarat, which live streams from the front of the inner sanctum 24/7. When the temple…
Daily Inspiration
Source Hinduism is the most skeptical and the most believing of all religions. The most skeptical because it has questioned and experimented the most and the deepest, rejecting nothing but insisting on testing and experiencing everything. From this comes our scriptures and our beliefs: the Vedas, the Vedanta, the Gita, the Upanishads… But the most authoritative scripture is in the…
Help Us Find On-Line Temple Worship and Events
KAUAI, HAWAII, USA, April 17, 2020 (HPI): Hinduism Today is requesting readers to help us assemble a list of URLs to access either regular pujas or special events at Hindu temples around the world during this time of lockdown on account of the Corona virus. For example, the BAPS Neasden Temple is doing live webcasts once each day here: https://youtu.be/YfQrsxVo430.…
Israel’s Prime Minister Encourages “Namaste” Greeting in Place of Handshakes During Coronavirus Outbreak
Source ISRAEL, March 5, 2020 (newsweek.com): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about the spread of coronavirus in Israel at a Wednesday press conference, suggesting that Israelis forego the normal greeting ritual of shaking hands and instead adopt the Indian meeting tradition of the Namaste. Netanyahu claimed the Namaste may help to slow the person-to-person spread of coronavirus on Israeli…
Daily Inspiration
Source In thinking “This is I” and “That is mine” one binds himself with himself, as does a bird with a snare.— Krishna Yajur Veda, Maitreya Upanishad 3.2
New Statue Of Lord Hanuman Installed At Ram Janmabhoomi Site, Old Damaged Statue Immersed In Saryu River
Source INDIA, April 13, 2020 (Swarajyamag): A new statue of Lord Hanuman has been installed at the makeshift Ram Janmabhoomi temple site here. The old statue was damaged but could not be replaced till now due to the Supreme Court directive for maintaining “status quo” owing to the pending case on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. The old statue has…
First Hindu University in Muslim-Majority Indonesia Named after Sugriva
Source BALI, INDONESIA, April 13, 2020 (Sunrise Read): The first Hindu university has been opened in Indonesia in the name of Sugriva, a character from the Ramcharit Manas. Indonesia has converted an institute in Bali into the first Hindu university in the country. Under the Presidential Regulation, Hinduism State Institute of Denpasar, Bali has been made the first Hindu State…
Volunteers Feed Hungry Animals at Nepal’s Revered Shrine
Source KATMANDU, NEPAL, April 13, 2020 (Brownsville Herald): In this photo, a Nepalese volunteer carries a sack of corn to feed pigeons at Pashupatinath temple, the country’s most revered Hindu temple, during the lockdown in Kathmandu, Nepal. Guards, staff and volunteers are making sure animals and birds on the temple grounds don’t starve during the country’s lockdown, which halted temple…
Coronavirus Pandemic Hits Hindu Priests Hard in Bengal, over 200,000 Lose Job
Source KOLKATA, INDIA, April 13, 2020 (Deccan Herald): Over 200,000 Hindu priests in West Bengal have become jobless as various social functions, rituals and religious festivities have either been cancelled or postponed to prevent public gatherings in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, a pandits’ organization spokesperson said on Monday. “If there are no pujas and other religious functions in…