Source BENGALURU, INDIA, August 20, 2018 (New Indian Express): The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is planning to launch a crack down on the use of statues made of plaster of paris to minimise the environmental impact of the Ganesha festival on September 13. Commissioner Manjunath Prasad said the civic body has joined hands with the pollution control board to…
Source SOUTH AFRICA, August 21, 2018 (Rising Sun Overport): The Lord Ganesha Float Procession held its annual awards and launch at the Shri Mariammen Temple in Mount Edgecombe on Friday. The organization awarded various devotees and sponsors for their dedication to the Ganesha festival over the years. This year marks the 12th procession for Lord Ganesha. Devotees and organisations who…
Source When individuals change for the better, then society will change, and when society changes, then the country will change.— Pramukh Swami Maharaj, fifth guru of BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha
Source CALIFORNIA, U.S., August 21, 2018 (CDE): The State Board of Education is seeking applications to fill three vacancies on the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC). The Invitation for Application to the IQC and the online application is available on the SBE Application Information webpage at “source above”. The IQC is responsible for advising the SBE on matters related to curriculum…
Source INDIA, July 27, 2018 (The Hindu): News of the Mahakumbabishekam of Sri Vishwanath Temple at Varanasi came as a surprise. And it was happening after two centuries, 238 years to be precise. History has it that Rani Ahalyabai Holkar of Indore built the present temple and dedicated it without much fanfare in 1780. Ever since no consecration has been…
Source That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal Religion because it embraces all others.— Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950)
Source GEORGE TOWN, MALAYSIA, August 15, 2018 (Free Malaysia Today): Penang Deputy Chief Minister II P. Ramasamy said a draft law to oversee interests of Hindus in the country will be presented to the country’s top leadership so that it can be enacted in Parliament. Ramasamy said the proposed federal law will see the creation of Hindu Endowment Boards (HEBs)…
Source MAURITIUS, July 20, 2018 (Bharata Bharati, World Hindu Foundation): We proclaim and affirm our acceptance of the unity of life and the relationship of all beings as divine and the Dharmic way of life as the way to tranquillity of the individual, family, community and world. The Dharma Shastras of Sanatana Dharma recognize that divinity resides in the heart…
Source One who is established in a comfortable posture while concentrating on the inner Self naturally becomes immersed in the Heart’s ocean of bliss.— Siva Sutras III, 16
KAUAI, HAWAII, August 15, 2018 (HPI): Hinduism Today is seeking a philosophically astute book reviewer to undertake writing a 1,200 word review of the newly released book by Swami Paramtattvadas of the Swaminarayan Fellowship. It is a scholarly work that presents the unique Vedanta of BAPS in an idiom the author developed at Oxford. A modest remuneration and full attribution…