Source Just as the memory of each detail of your yesterday has flowed through you, so does intellectual knowing eventually flow through the life of the person who contains it, as a thing of only temporary value. — Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001), founder of Hinduism Today
Source It’s indescribable. That should be clear. Neti, neti. We’re not trying to describe it. Other experiences in meditation we describe. We say, “Okay let’s go from a moon-like glow inner light into a slightly more intense one.” But when it comes to the Self there’s no description except that awareness is missing. — Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, publisher of Hinduism…
Source KAUAI, HAWAII, May 17, 2019 (HPI): Hinduism today has just posted to YouTube a new music video : “Hindus Love Celebrations.” Click “source” above to see and hear. It is a song for children intended to supplement the popular History of Hindu India documentary “From Ancient Times.” The documentary and song, the third of three for this time period,…
Source CAMBODIA, May 16, 2019 (Daily Mail): Archaeologists claim to have found the remnants of nearly 100 previously undiscovered ancient Hindu temples in the jungles of Cambodia. The temples, which in many cases are just foundations, were unearthed in Kratie Province’s historical Samphu Borak area of eastern Cambodia’s Kratie Province. The team believe they date back to the 6th and…
Source Youth is not a time of life–it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of ripe cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions. It is freshness of the deep springs of life. Nobody grows old by merely living a number…
KAUAI, HAWAII, May 15, 2019 (HPI): Here at Kauai’s Hindu Monastery, headquarters of Hinduism Today, we are preparing a new edition of “Loving Ganesha,” one of Gurudeva Sivaya Subramuniyaswami’s most popular books. This will be an upgraded color edition. As part of the effort, we are seeking the help of one or more Sanskrit experts to proofread and offer corrections…
Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, May 13, 2019 (Asian Age): It may surprise many Indians but scores of Hindu Deities, including Saraswati, Lakshmi, Brahma, Ganesha, and Garuda, are actively worshiped in their temples by the Japanese, preserving Indian traditions that have practically been forgotten in India, shows a film screened in Delhi on Sunday. It revealed that there are hundreds of…
Source Whatever world the man of purified mind desires, whatever desires he wishes to fulfill, all these he attains. Therefore, let whoever is desirous of prosperity worship the man of Self Realization. The man of Self Realization knows the supreme Brahman upon which the universe is based and shines radiantly. — Atharva Veda, Mundaka Upanishad 3.1.10
Source PONDA, GOA, INDIA, May 11, 2019 (Herald): There’s a shortage of Hindu priests in Goa, and the shortfall is being made up by purohits from the neighboring States. Whether it is to celebrate marriages or at Ganesh Chaturthi, Diwali, Tulsi vivah, Laxmi poojan when priests are required to perform the rituals at people’s homes, or on a daily basis…
Source INDIA, May 10, 2019 (Devdiscourse): The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on Friday said there is no structural damage to the Konark Sun Temple, a World Heritage Site, due to Cyclone Fani, which made its landfall near Puri in Odisha on May 3. There is also no major damage to the Shree Jagannath Temple at Puri, a top Hindu…