Source UNITED STATES, April 13, 2019 (CNN): For the first time “No Religion” has topped a survey of Americans’ religious identity according to a new analysis by a political scientist. The non-religious edged out Catholics and evangelicals in the long-running General Social Survey. Ryan Burge, a political scientist at Eastern Illinois University and a Baptist pastor, found that 23.1% of…
Source PURI, INDIA, April 10, 2019 (Odisha Bytes): In the wake of Supreme Court’s proposal to hand over the management of the Jagannath temple to the Shankaracharya of the Gobardhan Peeth in its recent hearing, the latter is of the view that from the spiritual and religious perspective, the management of the temple should remain in his charge. “There will…
Source Should the perfect virtue of perfect men ever diminish, this mighty Earth would bear our burdensome weight no more. — Tirukural 990
Source UNITED STATES, April 13, 2019 (Forbes): The world has focused first on energy in its effort to stop greenhouse gas emissions, but former Energy Secretary Steven Chu puts agriculture at the top of his list of climate challenges–particularly animal agriculture. The Nobel Prize winning physicist surveyed the world’s carbon-polluting industries in a lecture at the University of Chicago, and…
Source INDIA, April 11, 2019 (CNN by Dr. Sanjay Gupta): As an Indian kid growing up in the States, my parents did everything they could to create a little feeling of their ancestral land in our small Midwestern town. And, although neither of my parents was a doctor, they often treated me and my little brother with home remedies passed…
Source Can he rectify false weight whose own scales are uncertain? Can you enlighten your neighbor while you yourself have no light? — Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886), 19th-century mystic and guru to Swami Vivekananda
Source INDIA, April 9, 2019 (DNAIndia): The Supreme Court Monday asked as to why should government officials manage religious places and temples in the country while taking note of the fact that several devotees visiting the Jagannath temple in Puri were being harassed. A bench of Justices SA Bobde and SA Nazeer observed this while hearing a plea which has…
Source Stop identifying with the world created by your mind and a new world will open up before you. — Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, spiritual leader, guru, humanitarian of Kerala
Source UNITED STATES, April 5, 2019 (New York Times): Mindfulness — the practice of using breathing techniques, similar to those in meditation, to gain focus and reduce distraction — is inching into the military in the United States and those of a handful of other nations. This winter, Army infantry soldiers at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii began using mindfulness to…
Source BENGALURU, INDIA, April 8, 2019: Excellent video of Rajiv Malhotra’s keynote address to a conference organized by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bengaluru and IGNCA Regional Centre, Bengaluru. We suggest started at about 2:50 where he discusses “the general problem of colonization.” YouTube description: “Hindu performing arts are facing extinction due to rapid distortion in the name of modernization into Christian,…