Dear Devotees,   Swami Ramakrishnananda Jayanti will be celebrated at our Math on Sunday, 4th of August 2013, as per the programme given below. You along with your relatives and friends are cordially invited to participate and receive the blessings of the Lord.   With best Wishes Swami Pramatheshananda Adhyaksha   PROGRAMME   Morning   […]

A mahout took an elephant to the Ganga and gave it a nice bath for over an hour. He applied pounds of soap and scrubbed its whole body nicely. He was thoroughly satisfied. He took it out of the water and was driving it home. The moment the elephant reached the bank of the Ganga, […]

Among path finders to the Eternal, Sankara stands out. He spent his entire life, short though it was, in urging his felowmen to move from the ephemeral to the abiding, from the fleeting panorama of temporal life to the spiritual felicity of life eternal. So far as earthly living and its demands go, there is […]

Source QUANZHOU, CHINA, July 2013 (The Hindu): For the residents of Chedian, a few thousand-year-old village of muddy by-lanes and old stone courtyard houses, she is just another form of Guanyin, the female Bodhisattva who is venerated in many parts of China. But the Goddess that the residents of this village pray to every morning, […]

Source ATLANTA, GEORGIA, July 14, 2013: This year more than 8,000 Hindu youths attended the BAPS North American Youth Convention hosted at the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Atlanta, Georgia.The 11-day event, unprecedented in the history of Hindus in North America, took place from July 4th to July 14th and consisted of three separate conventions, […]

Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, July 14, 2013 (New Kerala): The thoughtful construction style of the Kedarnath temple in Uttarakhand saved the 11th century structure from any serious damage during last month’s devastating floods, says an Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) official, adding that a barrier would be constructed to protect the shrine from any future […]

Source INDIA, July, 15th July, 2013 (by R. Sujatha, The Hindu): (HPI Note: readers wishing to comment on this report may email ar@hindu.org). Subadra Muthuswami, who has a master’s degree in public health from Columbia University, hoped to pursue her interest in Hinduism when she returned to India but discovered that no university in India […]

Hinduism Today NEW DELHI, INDIA, July 15th, 2013(Rajiv Malik, Hinduism Today Correspondent): “Government control of Hindu temples should end and Hindus themselves should be allowed to manage them.”- Swami Dayananda Saraswati. At a day-long symposium on the subject- “Government Control Of Temples- Constitutional Issues,” organized by the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha [HDAS] at New Delhi’s […]

Source UNITED KINGDOM, July 11, 2013 (The Independent): Landmark legislation to ban caste discrimination in Britain is being deliberately thwarted by the Conservative equalities ministers in charge of getting it on the statute book, a leaked document indicates. Discrimination on the basis of caste was outlawed in April as part of the Equality Act, after […]

Source HOUSTON, TEXAS, July 3, 2013 (Indo American News): When the parents of two young Hindu American boys contacted community leaders for help in getting answers from school authorities about the incessant bullying their children were facing at their Humble district school, the Hindu community rallied quickly to support the family and help find solutions […]