Source VARANASI, INDIA, January 25, 2017 (Times of India): Two distinguished persons of the city are among the recipients of this year’s Padma awards in the field of literature and education. Noted Sanskrit scholar Professor Devi Prasad Dwivedi has been felicitated with Padma Bhushan, while another scholar, Harihar Kripalu Tripathi, has been honoured with Padma Shri award. “It is the…
Source Hinduism is such a joyous religion, freed of all the mental encumbrances that are prevalent in the various Western faiths. It is freed of the notion of a vengeful God. It is freed of the notion of eternal suffering. It is freed from the notion of original sin. It is freed from the notion of a single spiritual path,…
Source INDIA, January 24, 2017 (International Journal Dharma Studies, by Drs. G. Anand and S. Menon): A new study of the Tirumandiram, the earliest known Tamil treatise on yoga, while elaborating on its monistic theism and metaphysics, also examines the shared philosophical thoughts between the monistic Kashmir Saivism and Tamil Siddha mystics. It describes Tirumular’s analysis of consciousness, the impurities…
Source The tragedy of human history is that there is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts. — Swami Chinamayananda, (1916-1993)
Source INDIA, January 17, 2017 (Christianity Today): “We want to be honest with you, there is very little hope.” So wrote Compassion International to its 130,000 sponsors of Indian children this past Friday. One week after sharing the good news of four nations no longer needing child sponsors due to the passion of millennials, the ministry shared the bad news…
Source UNITED KINGDOM, January 19, 2017 (BBC): India’s caste system is among the world’s oldest surviving forms of social stratification. However, some British Asians say they still experience discrimination due to their caste. So, why are so many Hindu bodies in the UK opposed to this being made illegal? Sudesh Rani was shopping in the Home Counties two years ago…
Source Whatever good you wish to do, do it now and here. Do not wait for the tomorrow. A day will come whose tomorrow we shall not see. Dada J.P. Vaswani,–head of Sadhu Vaswani Mission
Source UNITED KINGDOM, January 9, 2017 (Anti-Caste Legislation Committee, an editorial): You will be aware of the government’s impending consultation on whether the clause on caste in the Equality Act should be implemented. The caste law is being promoted as a way to attack some ordinary but significant aspects of the Indian traditions and will create a great deal of…
Source There is a proverb in our language: “If I want to be a hunter, I’ll hunt the rhinoceros; if I want to be a robber, I’ll rob the king’s treasury.” What is the use of robbing beggars or hunting ants? So if you want to love, love God. — Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)
Source WASHINGTON D.C., January 20, 2017 (Asian Age): A Hindu priest will be among various religious leaders who will offer prayers at the National Prayer Service of Donald Trump on Saturday, a day after he is sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. Narayanachar L. Digalakota from the popular Sri Siva Vishnu Temple in Lanham, Maryland will…