Source INDIA, April 22, 2020 (Vivekananda International Foundation, by Prof. Hari Bansh Jha): Nepal and India, though closest neighbors, represent a contrasting scenario. Nepal has land borders with both India and China, one an open border and the other controlled and regulated; the two being the most populous countries in the world. One would have normally expected some common characteristics…
Source CHENNAI, INDIA, April 21, 2020 (Times of India): Monday onwards, the city’s pious who have had to cancel their temple visits and summer pilgrimages in light of the Covid-19 outbreak, can be rest assured to not miss out on the year’s most anticipated temple festivals. Thanks to Hindu religious and charitable endowments (HR&CE) department, which after much contemplation, has…
Source INDIA, April 20, 2020 (Business Standard): As the divine reverberations of Om followed by the chants of the Shiva Panchakshara Stotram — na-mah-shi-va-ya and shi-va-ya-na-mah — permeate Varanasi’s Kashi Vishwanath temple, a solitary priest in the sanctum sanctorum housing the sacred Shiva Lingam continuously pours milk over it. Overhead, a brass receptacle ensures a steady stream of Ganga water…
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)
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…