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Posted on 2010/5/7 7:03:01 ( 551
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INDIA, April 22, 2010: The 7-ft
murti of Lord Anjaneya (a name of Hanuman) at the famous Anjaneyar Ashram
in Salem now has a golden vimana. The first of its kind for the God, the
Swarna Vimana was consecrated recently. The beautiful ashram also has
sannidhis for Sri Rama, Sakkarathazhwar, the 13 Azhwars, and Sri Ramanuja
and Desikan.
The ashram was established in 1976 in Vijayaraghavan Nagar in Jagir
Ammapalayam village by S. Vijayaraghavan and Vanavaasi Srinivasan along
with devotees. The area which once wore a deserted look, was transformed
into an idyllic setting thanks to the efforts of R. Nagarajan, a social
worker and spiritual speaker.
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Posted on 2010/5/7 7:02:01 ( 324
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 8, 2010: (by
Vamsee Juluri) I wonder if the followers of any other faith in America have
to live with the absurdity of hearing constantly that their religion does
not exist. Add to that an irony: you see images from the religion that
supposedly does not exist showing up everywhere, as ornaments, as New Age
paraphernalia, and, insultingly, even on toilet seats. Worse, there's an
exception to the general denial of your religion: when it does get talked
about, it is only to get blamed as the sole cause of every evil in the land
of your birth.
That is how it feels as a Hindu in America today, and that is the right
context to see the debate between Dr. Aseem Shukla and Dr. Deepak Chopra.
The issue is not whether Hindus "own" Yoga as much as the growing
denial of Hinduism in American media and intellectual culture. This denial
exists in many forms; in bookstores, where we find shelves for Islam and
Christianity but not for Hinduism, in academic writing, where the word
Hindu is quote-marked into high degrees of concerned irony to imply that it
is nothing more than a fabrication of fascist fundamentalists, and of
course, in the booming new age culture of America where
"Namastes" are heard but never the word "Hindu."
Like many Hindus, I believe in the plurality of Hinduism and its basic
belief that all faiths lead to God. But as an academic who studies the
causes and consequences of media misrepresentation, I feel that there is a
growing culture of Hindu denial. Curiously, this culture has found its
sustenance from opposite ends of the American political-intellectual
spectrum. Religious conservatives condemn Hinduism as paganism, much as the
first colonizers did when they set forth to save us. But what is new is
that enlightened New Age liberals, American and South Asian, shun its
mention as if every person who identifies as Hindu is a fundamentalist.
The reasons for this response lie partly in recent Indian politics. But
what these debates often forget is the American context. America sees the
world sharply in terms of religious identity (unlike in India where other
identities also matter). It saw more Hinduness in Indian immigrants than
even we ever did, and not always kindly.
Many great Hindu spiritual leaders have, in the best spirit of their faith,
rarely enjoined the use of the term "Hindu." However, we must
also not unwittingly de-Hinduize them. It has become fashionable to
"borrow" from one of Hinduism's many traditions and then disavow
it altogether, as if Hinduism only refers to the residue of undesirable
stuff that got added onto some pristine preexisting spiritual condition
like the practice of Yoga.
It is neither accurate nor ethical to speak of Hinduism as a reality only
when criticizing it while denying its existence altogether when enjoying or
exploiting, as the case may be, its gifts of wisdom to the world.
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Posted on 2010/5/7 7:01:01 ( 376
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Source: HPI
KAPAA, HI, May 8, 2010: A writer,
photographer and mother of three in Mauritius is inspired to bring some of
the great modern stories about Hinduism into the pages of Hinduism Today
magazine. Kavita Mardeemootoo is inviting all HPI readers (and their families
and friends) to send her your testimonies and tales. She will do all the
editing and preparations for the editors in Hawaii. All you have to do is
share. Here is Kavita's invitation in her own words:
"We all need a little help as we stumble through life's experiences.
We can help each other find strength through sharing stories that have
secured our own faith. Maybe there is a reasoning to your thoughts that
help you take on each challenge. Why do you believe what you believe? What
is your daily mantra or yoga practice? How has dharma guided you through
difficult times? By sharing your favorite ideas, beliefs and stories you
are helping others to become stronger, to understand better and to dance
easier to the drums of Siva's cosmic dance."
Please send your testimonies to Kavita at hinduexperience@yahoo.com
(text and photos are welcome).
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Posted on 2010/5/7 7:00:01 ( 439
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In the whole world there is no
study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been
the solace of my life--it will be the solace of my death.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German
philosopher and writer.
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Posted on 2010/5/6 7:03:01 ( 437
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NEW DELHI, INDIA, May 1, 2010: With
an aim to ensure that ayurveda is accessible to the rural community,
especially women, efforts are being made to make the discipline a part of
primary health centres and create awareness about it.
A new program has been created to clear myths and generate suggestions for
policy formulations for incorporating ayurveda in National Rural Healthcare
systems for women.
"We propose to understand the science and logic behind traditional
lifestyles and know the different options available for affordable and
alternative means of good health for our rural populace," an NGO
participating in a seminar on ayurveda in New Delhi said.
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Posted on 2010/5/6 7:02:01 ( 424
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UNITED KINGDOM, May 3, 2010: A
taste of India came to south Essex when more than 1,500 worshippers came to
a Hindu festival. The miserable weather failed to dampen the spirits of the
festival-goers who flocked to East Beach in Shoebury.
They braved the wind and rain for the Purshottum Maas festival, where they
enjoyed folk dancing, traditional music and Indian food. It is the first
time the festival, which takes place every three years, has been held in
the U.K. on such a big scale.
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Posted on 2010/5/6 7:01:01 ( 400
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HARIDWAR, INDIA, April 19, 2010:
[HPI note: This is an article in two parts.]
The advertisement, in Sanskrit, was small, tossed to the extreme right of
the newspaper page: "Sanskrit-dwitiyarajbhashayuktam deshashya
prathamrajyam Uttarakhandam" (Uttarakhand is India's first state to
have Sanskrit as its second official language).
The language of ancient Indian religious texts and epics is being revived
and popularized, thanks to bipartisan efforts in Uttarakhand. Some schools
and universities are taking Sanskrit beyond purely scriptural relevance to
address a variety of modern subjects.
In January, the Uttarakhand government adopted Sanskrit as the second
official language--Hindi remains the first--after the state legislature
cast a unanimous vote. Mahavir Agrawal, vice-chairman of the Uttaranchal
Sanskrit Academy (USA), leans forward in his chair to enunciate, first, the
visual difference on the newspaper page. On the left page are news reports,
all in English, interspersed with advertisements in the same language. On
the right, the Sanskrit ad. "How often do you see an advertisement in
Sanskrit in the 'English-and-Hindi' media? I have taught for decades in the
language, but haven't seen anything like this." he says.
The Uttaranchal Sanskrit Academy also helps set up Sanskrit libraries,
collection centres for manuscripts, and edits and publishes rare
manuscripts and books in the language in collaboration with the National
Mission for Manuscripts, a central body under the ministry of tourism and
culture in New Delhi for creating a national database of manuscripts.
The Indian Constitution lists Sanskrit as an official language under its
eighth schedule, along with 22 other languages, including Maithili, Tamil,
Oriya and Punjabi, though most states use Hindi, English, Urdu or the
respective regional languages as their first or second official languages.
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Posted on 2010/5/6 7:00:01 ( 435
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In the garden of the soul, plant
the seed of the Word (Lord's Name). Water the soil with love and humility
and reap the fruits of Divinity.
Guru Granth Sahib
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Posted on 2010/5/3 7:04:01 ( 440
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NEPAL, April 28, 2010: In Nepal, as
law makers approach the May 28 deadline for completing a draft of a new
constitution, tensions increase over whether the country will remain a
secular state. In 2006, Parliament passed a resolution providing that the
country would no longer formally be known as a Hindu nation.
Last week, Christians rallied in Kathmandu demanding that the new constitution
ensure their rights by keeping Nepal as a secular state. Cath News India
reports that Christians are pressing for provisions in the constitution
that protect their right to form Christian NGOs and church trusts easily.
However yesterday's London Guardian reports that there are increasing
pressures, fueled by Hindu nationalists in India, to once again declare
Nepal a Hindu state.
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Posted on 2010/5/3 7:03:01 ( 404
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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, April 28,
2010: The first ever Hinduism Summit (Hindu Dharmasabha) in Australia, will
be held on the auspicious occasion of Akshay Trutiya, 5112 ( May 16, 2010)
at the Shirdi Sai Baba Temple, Camberwell, Melbourne. The Hinduism Summit
will be held by the Forum for Hindu Awakening (FHA) and Hindu Janajagruti
Samiti (HJS), with support from noteworthy Hindu and spiritual
organizations and leaders from Australia. This Summit welcomes anyone and
everyone interested in understanding, living and preserving Hinduism.
This Hinduism Summit follows the success of recent similar summits held in
the last half of 2009 by FHA in Virginia, USA and jointly with HJS in New
Jersey, USA and London, UK. The event will be webcast live on FHA and HJS
websites.
Among the saints blessing the event are: Her Holiness Mata Amritanandamayi
(Amma) of Ammachi, His Holiness Vaishnavacharya Goswami Shri Dwarkeshlalji
Mahodaya, Pujya Guruji Shri Ashwinkumar Pathak of Jai Shree Ram Sundarkand,
Jagadguru Shankaracharya Swami Jayendra Saraswati of Kanchi Kamkoti Peeth,
His Holiness Pande Maharaj of Sanatan Sanstha, and His Holiness Sri Sri
Ravi Shankar of The Art of Living International Center.
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Posted on 2010/5/3 7:02:01 ( 388
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NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 25, 2010:
As a first step in implementation of the amended Ancient Monuments and
Archaeological Sites and Remains Act 2010, the government has come up with
draft rules for the proposed National Monument Authority.
The proposed body will work towards categorization and classification of
monuments protected by the ASI. It would also be the ultimate authority to
grant permissions related to by-laws for construction in
Centrally-protected monuments.
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Posted on 2010/5/14 7:01:01 ( 367
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NEW DELHI, INDIA, May 3, 2010:
India has said that at the Commonwealth Games mega sports meet in New Delhi
in October where athletes from 71 nations are scheduled to participate, no
beef will be served but instead the participants will be provided with
nutritious meals and snacks.
"Commonwealth Games Federation's requirement from the organizing committee
is to provide to a quality 24 hour catering service offering nutritious
meals and snacks to the athletes and their team officials during
Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010, taking into consideration cultural dietary
requirements and the need for variety and rotation of menus," the
games organizers maintained. The slaughtering of cows is banned in most
Indian states.
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Posted on 2010/5/14 7:00:01 ( 454
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It is better to keep your mouth
closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all
doubt.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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Posted on 2010/5/11 7:03:01 ( 427
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LIVERMORE, CA, USA, May 11, 2010:
Following a turbulent public hearing that raised questions about whether
certain types of land use restrictions impede religious practices, the
Livermore City Council voted 4-1 Monday to allow the Shiva-Vishnu Hindu
Temple to enlarge its facilities.
The council's approval of the 31,000-square-foot assembly hall expansion
and new multipurpose and administration buildings came with a long list of
conditions -- including a rule barring the temple from having any amplified
music, prayer or other sound outdoors.
The condition was included even after the city attorney warned it may be
regarded as a hindrance to religious expression.
"It could potentially (be viewed) as discriminating" against the
temple, City Attorney John Pomidor said.
More than 240 people attended the nearly five-hour meeting, forcing city
officials to open a second room in the multiservice center next door to the
council chamber.
On one side of the issue were neighbors who feared the project would worsen
existing traffic, noise, vermin, pollution and other problems they have
long claimed stem from the temple. In hundreds of letters to the city,
opponents said the 27-year-old Shiva-Vishnu has had a poor track record
with neighbors, often failing to respond to their concerns.
The temple, which was incorporated in the early 1980s when there were fewer
houses around it, has grown from several hundred devotees to a regional
destination. Its largest events can draw up to 10,000, though typically not
all at once.
Originally, a 70,000-square-foot expansion was planned, but neighbors'
complaints and economic factors led temple leaders to scale down the
project. Shiva-Vishnu officials say more than $1 million has been spent
trying to appease the city and neighbors; the temple conducted two traffic
studies, agreed to relocate the kitchen, planned curbside improvements and
has taken other mitigation measures.
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Posted on 2010/5/11 7:02:01 ( 472
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MURSHIDABAD, INDIA, May 2, 2010: A
dirty little secret that most Indian politicians don't discuss is the
thriving cow smuggling trade from their Hindu-majority nation, home of the
sacred cow, to Muslim-majority Bangladesh, where many people enjoy a good
steak.
India has outlawed cattle exports, but that hasn't prevented well-organized
traffickers from herding millions of the unlucky beasts each year onto
trains and trucks, injecting them with drugs on arrival so they walk
faster, then forcing them to ford rivers and lumber into slaughterhouses immediately
across the border. Most cows pass through West Bengal state, which shares a
1,300-mile border with Bangladesh.
Estimates suggest 1.5 million cows, valued at up to $500 million, are
smuggled annually, providing more than half the beef consumed in
Bangladesh. The cows come from as far as Rajasthan, about 1,000 miles away.
Many trade hands several times en route. The profits can be significant. A
$100 medium-size cow in Jharkhand is worth nearly double that in West
Bengal and about $350 in Bangladesh.
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LONDON, UK, April 24, 2010: This
May, a plethora of Indian designers will land in London for Indian Premier
London Fashion Week, the first event of its kind, to introduce their
designs to London's fashion buyers.Their timing couldn't be better, for
western catwalks and red carpets are currently replete with references to
India's celebrated sartorial trademark: the sari.
When Gwyneth Paltrow took to the red carpet in March for an awards
ceremony, her look paid homage to the key sari motifs of asymmetry, subtle
draping and intricate embroidery. Elizabeth Hurley, actress, model and wife
of Indian textile heir Arun Nayar, chose to wear a sari at this year's Love
Ball during London fashion week. Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai has worn
her national dress not only on home territory but also at a recent
appearance on the US television show Oprah.
On the spring/summer catwalk the references are equally noteworthy. Carolina
Herrera, Kenzo, and Chanel couture featured vivid colors typical of Indian
fabrics, as well as one-shoulder styles. Then there was Amanda Wakeley:
"I was passionately inspired by traditionally dressed Indian men and
women," says the British designer of her spring/summer 2010
collection. "The way the women wear their saris with such creative
ease; the soft silhouette; the flowing fabric; the layering of textures and
flashes of embellishment."
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Posted on 2010/5/11 7:00:01 ( 415
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People rarely disclose their
character so clearly as when they describe someone else's.
Anonymous
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Posted on 2010/5/10 7:04:01 ( 450
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KANSAS CITY, U.S., May 7, 2010: The
Hindu Temple and Cultural Center of Kansas City is holding a special
spiritual ceremony, "World Peace Maha Yagna," through May 16 at
the temple. An elaborate fire pit has been created, and each day during the
ceremony, priests make offerings of grain, fruit and other items to the
fire God while chanting mantras from the Vedas.
Maha Yagna is performed on a grand scale, where the whole community takes
part in seeking peace and harmony for the common good of humanity, said
Debabrata Bhaduri, a member of the temple board.
"Yagna is a Sanskrit word derived from the root 'yaj,' which has a
three-fold meaning: worship, unity and charity," said Arvind Khetia, a
member of the Hindu community. "As the Yagna begins, fire is ignited,
and the mantra is chanted, 'Into you I place fire that consumes the oblation
that will be offered, so that everywhere all who are sustained by food are
nourished and live in happiness' " he explains.
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USA, May 8, 2010: Patheos.com, a
website created to foster global dialogue about religion and spirituality
and to explore and experience the world's beliefs, has now a Hindu Portal.
You can visit it above and read about your faith and participate in many ways.
Patheos is calling for Hindu bloggers who can write articulate and
well-informed posts about Hinduism. The website has a group blog for each
tradition and is looking for contributors to the Hindu portal. Those
interested can e-mail the editor at HinduPortal@Patheos.com
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INDIA, May 8, 2010: The national
Indian government is pondering if it will include caste in the national
census after a gap of 79 years, as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised a
decision soon. "I am aware of the views of the Members of Parliament
belonging to all sections. I assure you that the cabinet will take a decision
shortly," Singh said in a brief statement in the house on Friday.
The latest move concludes a serious onslaught by backward leaders, who
brought Parliament to a halt over the last few days to demand that the
census include caste as a criterion in the survey. The demand picked
momentum through the week, with an across-the-board consensus in its favor
and the mood reflected in the union cabinet on Wednesday, when a large
section of ministers reportedly argued in favor of such a headcount.
Inclusion of caste in the census would mark a watershed in independent
India, where a conscious decision was taken not to enumerate castes except
scheduled castes and scheduled tribes.
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DYERSBURG, TN, USA, May 3, 2010:
For 15 years, Eddie Anderson, a farmer, has been a strict adherent of
no-till agriculture, an environmentally friendly technique that all but
eliminates plowing to curb erosion and the harmful runoff of fertilizers
and pesticides. But not this year. On a recent afternoon here, Mr. Anderson
watched as tractors crisscrossed a rolling field -- plowing and mixing
herbicides into the soil to kill weeds where soybeans will soon be planted.
Just as the heavy use of antibiotics contributed to the rise of
drug-resistant supergerms, American farmers' near-ubiquitous use of the
weedkiller Roundup has led to the rapid growth of tenacious new superweeds.
To fight them, Mr. Anderson and farmers throughout the East, Midwest and
South are being forced to spray fields with more toxic herbicides, pull
weeds by hand and return to more labor-intensive methods like regular
plowing. "We're back to where we were 20 years ago," said Mr.
Anderson.
Farm experts say that such efforts could lead to higher food prices, lower
crop yields, rising farm costs and more pollution of land and water.
"It is the single largest threat to production agriculture that we
have ever seen," said Andrew Wargo III, the president of the Arkansas
Association of Conservation Districts.
The superweeds could temper American agriculture's enthusiasm for some
genetically modified crops. Soybeans, corn and cotton that are engineered
to survive spraying with Roundup have become standard in American fields.
However, if Roundup doesn't kill the weeds, farmers have little incentive
to spend the extra money for the special seeds. Roundup -- originally made
by Monsanto but now also sold by others under the generic name glyphosate
-- has been little short of a miracle chemical for farmers. It kills a broad
spectrum of weeds, is easy and safe to work with, and breaks down quickly,
reducing its environmental impact.
Monsanto created its brand of Roundup Ready crops that were genetically
modified to tolerate the chemical, allowing farmers to spray their fields
to kill the weeds while leaving the crop unharmed. Today, Roundup Ready
crops account for about 90 percent of the soybeans and 70 percent of the
corn and cotton grown in the United States. If frequent plowing becomes
necessary again, "that is certainly a major concern for our
environment," Ken Smith, a weed scientist at the University of
Arkansas, said. In addition, some critics of genetically engineered crops
say that the use of extra herbicides, including some old ones that are less
environmentally tolerable than Roundup, belies the claims made by the
biotechnology industry that its crops would be better for the environment.
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Whenever I have read any part of
the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated
me. In the greatest teachings of the Vedas, there is no touch of
sectarianism. It is of all ages, climes and nationalities and the royal
road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American
naturalist, philosopher and writer
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WASHINGTON, DC, May 8, 2010: HAF is
excited to launch its second annual NextGen Essay Contest, open to all
writers between the ages of 17 and 27 years. The theme this year is,
"How do you live your Hindu identity differently from how your parents
live theirs?"
As the Foundation continues its advocacy efforts, it is also aware of the
need to reach out to the future of Hindu American leadership. The annual
NextGen Essay Contest aims to engage this generation by urging them to
focus on their Hindu identity.
Some more information about this year's topic: The beauty of Hinduism, and
a key reason for its longevity as a world religion, is its ability to
embrace modernity. While the philosophy of Hinduism is ever-relevant, the
manner in how it is applied to everyday life continues to change with each
generation. HAF wants to know the difference between your application of
Hindu philosophy to daily life and your parents' application.
Due Date: Monday, June 14, 2010 (11:59pm EST) Email address for
submissions: essay@hafsite.org
For details about the submissions, including information about the prizes,
please click on the source, above. Entries will be judged on the depth of
their content and the skill with which they are written.
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INDIA, May 7, 2010: The three
National Academies (Sangeet Natak, Sahitya and Lalit Kala) and the Ministry
of Culture are launching the National Celebrations on the 150th year of
Rabindranath Tagore, with a three-day event entitled Rabindra Pranati. This
will take place from 7th to 9th May 2010 in New Delhi.
Rabindranath's genius expressed itself in the entire array of the arts that
are represented by the three National Academies, established by the
Government in the mid-1950s. It is also appropriate that this year-long
commemoration of Rabindranath Tagore commences at Rabindra Bhavan in New
Delhi, which itself was built on the occasion of the Tagore Centenary in
1961, to house the Academies.
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UNITED KINGDOM, May 2010: Indian
children could soon be wearing canvas shoes to school rather than the heavy
leather brogues, widely viewed as relics from the British colonial era.
Indian politician Maneka Gandhi is campaigning to ban the shoes as they are
"unhealthy and uncomfortable" and "destroying" the feet
of school-goers.
"Leather shoes are really bad for our children," news agency AFP
quoted Ms. Gandhi, daughter-in-law of former Indian premier Indira Gandhi
and the widow of her younger son, Sanjay Gandhi. These shoes, originally
from Ireland and Scotland, were suitable for cold climates and not for the
heat of India, she added.
Last year, Ms Gandhi wrote to the human resource development ministry
protesting against the use of leather shoes which are mandatory for students
in most schools in India. The ministry then asked school boards for their
opinion. According to reports, the two main boards - Central Board of
School Education (CBSE) and Indian Council for Secondary Education (ICSE) -
have responded favorably to the suggestion.
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Remember, when you find yourself
arguing with a fool, he is doing the same thing.
Anonymous
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NEW DELHI, INDIA, May 9, 2010: The
Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh inaugurated "The Master's Strokes:
Art of Rabindranath Tagore" exhibition at the National Gallery of
Modern Art, New Delhi today, honoring the 150th Birth Anniversary of one of
the world's foremost cultural personalities.
Rabindranath Tagore's genius as a poet, dramatist, philosopher,
educationist and composer won him universal acclaim. His genius as a
painter is however less well known, perhaps because he began painting when
he was well into his 60s. I am thus happy that the National Gallery of
Modern Art is commencing our national celebrations by showcasing some of
these precious contributions of this versatile genius to the world of
Indian art," said Dr. Singh.
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What I feel right now is just
bliss. Daily life tires the soul as well as the body. This one day, this
one bath, is like a new birth for my soul.
Vivek Ananda Shastri, 28, teacher, after bathing
at the January 2001 Kumbha Mela
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AHMEDABAD, INDIA, May 10, 2010: An
83-year-old Indian holy man who says he has spent seven decades without
food or water has astounded a team of military doctors who studied him
during a two-week observation period. Prahlad Jani spent a fortnight in a
hospital in the western India state of Gujarat under constant surveillance
from a team of 30 medics equipped with cameras and closed circuit
television. During the period, he neither ate nor drank and did not go to
the toilet.
The long-haired and bearded yogi was sealed in a hospital in the city of
Ahmedabad in a study initiated by India's Defence Research and Development
Organisation (DRDO), the state defense and military research institute. The
DRDO hopes that the findings, set to be released in greater detail in
several months, could help soldiers survive without food and drink, assist
astronauts or even save the lives of people trapped in natural disasters.
"We still do not know how he survives," neurologist Sudhir Shah
told reporters after the end of the experiment. "It is still a mystery
what kind of phenomenon this is." "If Jani does not derive energy
from food and water, he must be doing that from energy sources around him,
sunlight being one," said Shah. "As medical practitioners we
cannot shut our eyes to possibilities, to a source of energy other than
calories."
Jani has since returned to his village near Ambaji in northern Gujarat
where he will resume his routine of yoga and meditation. He says that he
was blessed by a goddess at a young age, which gave him special powers.
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NEW DELHI, INDIA, May 11, 2010: A
600-year-old statue of Lord Nataraja, estimated to be worth around US$1
million in the international market, was seized by the police in south
district from two persons who were allegedly trying to sell it. The accused
were arrested near Vikas Sadan in Kotla Mubarakpur on Sunday.
"We have seized the antique statue of Lord Nataraja and a car in which
the accused were moving around, hoping to find a customer," said DCP
Dhaliwal. Police said the 19-inches long murti weighs 34 lbs and is made of
"ashtadhatu" (eight metals). Experts at Archaeological Survey of
India have valued it at approximately US$1 million.
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KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, May 11,
2010: More than 20,000 Hindus are expected to attend the consecration
ceremony of Sri Maha Mariam man Temple in Malaysia. The 105-year-old temple
in Puchong, a suburb, is being reconstructed at a cost of more than
US$885,000.
Temple chairman A. Sevaguru said preparations were being undertaken to
ensure the temple would be ready by May 23. He said the temple's steeple
was 70-foot tall and devotees could see it from within the temple through a
glass ceiling. Sevaguru said there would be six prayer sessions for the
devotees to place gold and silver rice in the inner sanctum and an
anointment ceremony would be a rare opportunity accorded to devotees. The
temple was originally set up by South Indian contract laborers brought here
by the British in 1905.
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INDIA, May 4, 2010:
Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati stands on the banks of the Ganges, India's
holiest river, urging his fellow Hindu priests to oppose hydropower dams
the nation needs to curb blackouts and drive economic growth. "Without
electricity, you can survive. One can't survive without water,"
Saraswati tells a gathering of holy men in the Himalayan foothills where
the Kumbha Mela, a Hindu festival that draws more than 50 million devotees,
is entering its final days. "You cannot shackle the Ganges and call it
development."
Opposition from Hindu groups helped halt two dams on tributaries of the
Ganges in March and the government this month is set to decide whether to
complete a barrage that's part of a plan to add 15,600 megawatts of
hydropower by 2012. The energy shortfall forces manufacturers including
Tata Motors Ltd. and Bajaj Auto Ltd., Nissan Motor Co.'s Indian partner, to
rely on back-up generators to build cars and bikes. "The power
situation in India is a disaster," said Pradeep Shrivastava, president
of engineering at Pune-based Bajaj, which operates a motorbike factory in
northern Uttarakhand state where the Ganges flows onto the Indian plains.
"We are dependent on our internal generation."
The river also helps irrigate India's largest wheat and second-biggest
sugar producing state, Uttar Pradesh, while West Bengal, the last province
before the Ganges flows into its delta in Bangladesh, is the nation's No. 1
rice grower. The World Bank forecasts that demand for water in India will
exceed available sources by 2050.
The two dams in Uttarakhand, 125 miles from New Delhi, were scrapped on
March 25 out of what Jairam Ramesh, the environment minister, said was
"respect for sentiments of faith and culture" and possible
ecological damage as the river level falls. There's a new sensitivity in
government to dams' "environmental impact, and displacement and
rehabilitation of people," said Ashok Jaitly, director of the water
resources division at New Delhi-based The Energy Resources Institute, which
researches issues of sustainable development.
"If you want to have a manufacturing base you need surplus
power," said V. Balakrishnan, chief financial officer of Infosys
Technologies Ltd., India's second-largest software exporter.
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We are not human beings having a
spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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UNITED STATES, May 5, 2010: Last
year, the Hindu American Foundation called the Yoga Journal magazine to
question why it rarely writes the term "Hinduism" when describing
the Bhagavad Gita or the Vedas. "Honestly, Hinduism just has too much
baggage," said the receptionist who answered the phone, confirming our
suspicion: Yoga Journal was intentionally avoiding mention of
"Hinduism" or "Hindu" in its publications.
Yoga Journal is not alone. More often than not, many Western yoga
practitioners are aghast at the very suggestion that the cherished
"spiritual practice" of yoga is firmly grounded in Hindu
philosophy. Despite asanas named after Hindu Gods or the shared goal of
moksha , yoga and Hinduism are consistently and systematically being
delinked.
HAF is proud to launch our Take Back Yoga campaign - our effort to
"Bring to light Yoga's Hindu root -- a relinking, so to speak. Visit
the link above (at source) and click on the "Take Back Yoga"
button on HAF's homepage, and you'll find HAF's official statement letters.
You will also find what the Washington Post called The Great Yoga Debate,
an exchange about Dr. Aseem Shukla and Deepak Chopra that was also the
theme for an opinion piece in a recent issue of Newsweek.
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VIETNAM, May 11, 2010: No one knows
exactly when the Indian Goddess temple called Mariamman Temple was built in
Ho Chi Minh City, but people there say it was first erected in the late
19th century by traders from Tamil Nadu, a southern state of India. The
main Goddess of this temple is Mariamman, the main South Indian mother
Goddess who is predominant in most rural areas of Tamil Nadu and other
southern states of this country.
The Hindu Temple serves Indian families who live in the city, but most of
the devotees worshiping Her are actually Saigonese non-Hindus who believe
in the power of Mariamman. The temple is regarded as a holy site and
attracts thousands of people every week.
Surrounding the outer walls of the temple are about twenty statues of Gods
such as Mahavishinu, Kaliyamman, Birman and Paramasivam. Also in District
1, there are two other Hindu Temples, Sri Thendayutthapani Temple and
Sunbramaniar Temple. These endow the city with Indian features and enrich
the spiritual life of Saigonese.
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INDIA, May 4, 2010:
Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati stands on the banks of the Ganges, India's
holiest river, urging his fellow Hindu priests to oppose hydropower dams
the nation needs to curb blackouts and drive economic growth. "Without
electricity, you can survive. One can't survive without water,"
Saraswati tells a gathering of holy men in the Himalayan foothills where
the Kumbha Mela, a Hindu festival that draws more than 50 million devotees,
is entering its final days. "You cannot shackle the Ganges and call it
development."
Opposition from Hindu groups helped halt two dams on tributaries of the
Ganges in March and the government this month is set to decide whether to
complete a barrage that's part of a plan to add 15,600 megawatts of
hydropower by 2012. The energy shortfall forces manufacturers including
Tata Motors Ltd. and Bajaj Auto Ltd., Nissan Motor Co.'s Indian partner, to
rely on back-up generators to build cars and bikes. "The power
situation in India is a disaster," said Pradeep Shrivastava, president
of engineering at Pune-based Bajaj, which operates a motorbike factory in
northern Uttarakhand state where the Ganges flows onto the Indian plains.
"We are dependent on our internal generation."
The river also helps irrigate India's largest wheat and second-biggest
sugar producing state, Uttar Pradesh, while West Bengal, the last province
before the Ganges flows into its delta in Bangladesh, is the nation's No. 1
rice grower. The World Bank forecasts that demand for water in India will
exceed available sources by 2050.
The two dams in Uttarakhand, 125 miles from New Delhi, were scrapped on
March 25 out of what Jairam Ramesh, the environment minister, said was
"respect for sentiments of faith and culture" and possible
ecological damage as the river level falls. There's a new sensitivity in
government to dams' "environmental impact, and displacement and
rehabilitation of people," said Ashok Jaitly, director of the water
resources division at New Delhi-based The Energy Resources Institute, which
researches issues of sustainable development.
"If you want to have a manufacturing base you need surplus
power," said V. Balakrishnan, chief financial officer of Infosys
Technologies Ltd., India's second-largest software exporter.
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If our senses conveyed the whole
truth to us, we would see the Earth as rivers and glaciers of electrons,
each speck of dust as a rolling mass of light.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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TIRUPATI, INDIA, May 17, 2010: The
Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) board, headed by D.K. Audikesavulu
Naidu, wanted to gold-plate the walls of the sanctum sanctorum, measuring
10,000 square feet, but the issue went to the courts amid controversy.
Estimated to cost US$22 million and requiring over 440 lbs. of gold, the
project was formally launched in 2008 by then chief minister Y.S.
Rajasekhara Reddy. It was first debated in 2005 by the TTD, with
Audikesavulu saying the gold cover would enhance the 'glory' of the temple
and put it on par with the Golden Temple, Amritsar.
For devotees who donated two pounds of gold or above, incentives like
concessions in darshan and other special benefits were offered. Despite
several objections from archaeologists and heritage conservationists, the
TTD chairman stayed firm. Donations for the gold-plating project began
pouring in. About 175 lbs of gold and hundreds of thousands of dollars have
been collected so far.
Last April 14 retired bureaucrats (who had served stints at the temple)
wrote to CM K. Rosaiah and the governor to ask the TTD not to pursue the
project. The primary worry here is that the gold-plating would obscure
invaluable heritage in terms of the wall inscriptions, dating from the 10th
to the 18th century. These are mostly in Tamil, apart from Telugu and
Devanagari. "They contain epigraphs which throw light on social
aspects, the rural economy, the traditions of the Cholas, Pallavas, Yadavas
and the Vijayanagara kings, mainly Krishnadevaraya," says Prof
Kirankanth Chowdary of the department of ancient Indian history, culture
and archaeology, SV University, Tirupati. The TTD plan was to build copper
frameworks a few inches from the wall on which sheets would be attached.
"The sheets will prevent light and air from falling on the granite walls,
spurring a chemical reaction which will damage the walls," says
Chowdary.
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TRINIDAD/TOBAGO, April 28, 2010:
The Hindu Monkey God, Lord Hanuman, is considered the chief servant of
mankind, according to Pundit Ramesh Tiwari. At the annual Lord Hanuman
Jayanti gathering at the Edinburgh Hindu Temple, Hindus begged Him to end
the long draught that has ailed this small nation.
"We pray for rains to come and nourish Mother Earth so that our reservoirs
will be filled to capacity and the drought will end, that our food crops
and other agricultural production will be regenerated," the priest
said. "We need water to survive. Man cannot create water. Lord Hanuman
is the Wind God which brings rain for all of mankind everywhere
Hundreds of devotees from all parts of the country came and joined in
devotion to Lord Hanuman. Pundit Seereeram Maharaj of the Shiva Kailash
Hindu Mandir, told his audience, "The whole issue of climate control
now faces all mankind and all of us, regardless of our religions, pray for
our nation and the world's climate," he said.
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INDIA, May 5, 2010: The Indian
Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) is coordinating the Festival of India
in China as well as the Festival of India in France called Namaste France,
in 2010-11. The Festival of India in China will take place from April to October,
2010, while the "Namaste France" Festival covers the period
between April 2010 and - May 2011.
In the last three years, ICCR has organized various Festivals including the
India-Japan Friendship Year, Festival of India in Israel, Festival of India
in Syria, Days of Indian Culture in Egypt, Festival of India in The
Netherlands, Festival of India in Hungary, and the Year of India in Russia.
Due to the emergence of India as a major economic and knowledge hub,
interest in and curiosity about Indian Culture and civilization has been
consistently increasing. Indian Festivals abroad help create awareness
about India, its culture, history, architecture, ethos and evolution,
leading to a substantial increase in tourism, goodwill and even commercial
interaction for the country. It is ICCR's endeavor to showcase diverse
forms of Indian dance, music and theatre in the course of these two major
Festivals and to organize talks and seminars on Indian themes.
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BARI, ITALY, April 28, 2010: The
coast of Torre a Mare, a few kilometers from Bari, was transformed to look
like Mauritius, or maybe, with a stretch of the imagination, like India. A
ceremony was done in the temple dedicated to Murugan, the Murugan Kovil of
Bari Torre a Mare, by the Tamil Mauritians of Pugliese, organized by the
Govinda Association.
The ritual is called Sittirai Cavadee and is dedicated to the popular God
Murugan, particularly revered in the south east of India. It began at
8:00AM with a procession departing from the temple on Valle Giglioli
Partigiani street. Renganadun Mootoosamy, A Hindu priest from Mauritius,
came to Bari to help with the ceremonies courtesy of the Union Tamoule de
Maurice and Mauritius Tamil Temple Federation. There are over one thousand
Mauritians in Bari. See photos of the ceremony here.
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The older I get, the more Hindu I
become.
V.S. Naipaul, expatriate Trinidadian novelist, now
living in UK, widely regarded in English literary circles as the best
living writer in the English language.
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, April 18, 2010:
Sewa International USA successfully conducted the First National Bhutanese
Refugee Empowerment Conference in Atlanta, GA, during April 17th-18th 2010.
Over sixty delegates and over one hundred attendees came from all over USA
to make this pioneering conference memorable.
The delegates expressed appreciation for the efforts of the United States
Government, United Nations Human Commissioner for Refugees, International
Organization for Migration, and other refugee agencies in settling
Bhutanese refugees in the USA and many other countries worldwide. Refugees
have been facing hardships in refugee camps in Nepal for two decades. The
government of the U.S. has accepted 60,000 Bhutanese refugees in a short
span of four years. Since early 2008 when the first refugees started to
arrive in the US, Sewa USA has been complementing the efforts of refugee
agencies in providing assistance to improve the socio-economic condition of
refugee families.
Sewa USA will continue to support the Bhutanese families irrespective of
their religious belief, ethnicity or political affiliation. And continue to
work with other like-minded organizations across the country.
For the full conference resolutions see url above. To read about the saga
of the Bhutanese refugees immigrating to America, you can see the Hinduism
Today article http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/ ... tion/item.php?itemid=5054
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GRAYSLAKE, ILLINOIS, May 14, 2010 -
The Chicago Hinduism Summit's success last month in bringing together over
200 individuals, leaders and organizations, to facilitate Hinduism learning
has prompted spontaneous support for another Hinduism Summit in the Greater
Chicago area. This Hinduism Summit (Hindu Dharma Sabha) will be held on
June 5th at the Hindu Temple of Lake County.
The Hindu Dharma Sabha welcomes anyone interested in understanding, living
and preserving Hinduism. It brings Hindu and spiritual leaders on one
platform, to work together for the cause of Hinduism and Hindu issues. The
Hindu Dharma Sabha provides a practical direction on living Hinduism and
preserving it in the face of denigration and misconceptions rife about
Hinduism in society and media.
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BIJAPUR, KARNATAKA, INDIA, May 7,
2010: These days, Sanskrit is no longer a forgotten tongue in daily lufe.
There is talk of establishing a Sanskrit and Vedic university in the state.
But off campus, right in the city, is a trader who uses the language for
his day-to-day business. 3R Garments Shop in Bijapur city is owned by Ram
Singh Rajput. He has eight employees, and for the past eight years, they
have been using Sanskrit as the language for his business.
Ram Singh says there is no difficulty. "After we started using
Sanskrit, our customers increased. Most of the customers first want to talk
and learn some Sanskrit, then they buy clothes." Singh is an active
member of the Sanskrit Bharati organization. He had learnt Sanskrit at a
10-day camp, and then started using it at home. After that, he introduced
it for the first time in his business. He has now done his MA in Sanskrit.
His younger brothers, Mohan and Vitthal Singh, also work in the shop. All
of them speak Sanskrit fluently. According to the brothers, Sanskrit is the
language of God, and learning it purifies a person's life by reducing bad
habits and arrogant behavior. "We automatically become polite, and
good thoughts come to our mind," they say.
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UNITED KINGDOM, May 9, 2010:
Researchers asked infants of various ages to choose between characters
which they had seen behaving well or badly, and found they overwhelmingly
favored the "good" characters.
The research, which is being pioneered by a team of psychologists from the
Infant Cognition Centre at Yale University, Connecticut, contradicts the
belief promoted by psychologists such as Sigmund Freud that babies are born
"amoral animals" and acquire a sense of right and wrong through
conditioning.
Paul Bloom, the professor of psychology who heads the study team, said:
"A growing body of evidence ... suggests that humans do have a
rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life. "We now know that
in the first six months babies learn things much quicker than we thought
possible. What they are born with and what they learn is difficult to
divide."
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A day spent without a conscious
attempt to clean one's heart is a day wasted. Impurity of cloth or body
will lead to diseases which will last only for one lifetime. But impurity
of heart will lead to diseases which will afflict the soul for several
births.
Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati, (1894-1994)
Shankaracharya of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peedam
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MERRILLVILLE, INDIANA, May 18,
2010: When Northwest Indiana's growing Indian population wants to worship
in a proper setting, they must currently travel 40 minutes west to Lemont,
Ill., site of the closest Hindu temple. That is about to change. As of June
20, the Indian American Cultural Center at 8605 Merrillville Road will
house an expanded cultural center and temple where its approximately 450
families can gather for meetings and weddings, Sunday school classes and
Hindu worship.
"Our community is expanding and the first generation wants to maintain
their own identity," said Dr. Shailesh Bhatt, a Munster resident and
member of the building committee. The center is culminating its expansion
10 years to the day since it opened its current building. The expansion
brings the building from a 5,000-square-foot cultural center to an
11,300-square-foot building that includes the Bharatiya Temple of Northwest
Indiana, said Dr. Panna Barai of Munster.
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TIRUPATI, INDIA, May 16, 2010:
Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), the custodian of the world's richest
Hindu temple, has signed a pact with State Bank of India (SBI) for deposit
of huge quantity of the surplus yellow metal lying in its treasury. The TTD
has agreed, in the first phase, to deposit 1000 kg (2,204 lbs) of gold with
SBI. The arrangement, which is expected to be a win-win situation for both
the stakeholders, is also unique in the sense that a bank is coming to the
doorsteps of Tirumala to receive the gold deposits and pay interest in the
form of gold.
While the TTD paid in the past for charges towards transportation,
insurance and melting (at the mint), the same will now be taken care of by
the bank, thus saving a lot for the temple management.
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NEW
YORK, May 18, 2010: The Presidents Cancer Panel has recently joined ranks
with the organic food movement and declared: chemicals threaten our bodies.
The cancer panel is releasing a landmark 200-page report on Thursday,
warning that our lackadaisical approach to regulation may have far-reaching
consequences for our health.
This document calls on America to rethink the way we confront cancer,
including much more rigorous regulation of chemicals. Traditionally, we
reduce cancer risks through regular doctor visits, self-examinations and
screenings such as mammograms. The Presidents Cancer Panel suggests other
eye-opening steps as well, such as giving preference to organic food,
checking radon levels in the home and microwaving food in glass containers
rather than plastic. In particular, the report warns about exposures to
chemicals during pregnancy, when risk of damage seems to be greatest.
Noting that 300 contaminants have been detected in umbilical cord blood of
newborn babies, the study warns that: to a disturbing extent, babies are
born pre-polluted. Only a few hundred of the more than 80,000 chemicals in
use in the United States have been tested for safety, the report says. It
adds: Many known or suspected carcinogens are completely unregulated.
The report does not say that chemicals are evil, and in many cases the
evidence against a particular substance is balanced by other studies that
are exonerating. To help people manage the uncertainty prudently, the
report has a section of recommendations for individuals. A few are:
- Particularly when pregnant and
when children are small, choose foods, toys and garden products with
fewer endocrine disruptors or other toxins.
- For those whose jobs may
expose them to chemicals, remove shoes when entering the house and
wash work clothes separately from the rest of the laundry.
- Filter drinking water.
- Store water in glass or
stainless steel containers, or in plastics that dont contain BPA or
phthalates (chemicals used to soften plastics). Microwave food in
ceramic or glass containers.
- Give preference to food grown
without pesticides, chemical fertilizers and growth hormones.
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Our civilization has come under a
new assault with the entire globalization of a rotten food culture. The
McDonald's experience is really the experience of eating junk whilst
thinking you are in heaven.
Environmentalist Vandana Shiva criticizing fast
food chains.
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WASHINGTON D.C., May 18, 2010:
Under the guidance of the White House Office of Faith Based and
Neighborhood Partnerships (OFBNP), an inspired team with Anju Bhargava, a
member of President Obama's Advisory Council, formed Hindu American Seva
Charities.
The Hindu American Seva Charities recently compiled a report that details
specific seva activities, interfaith collaboration and information on
infrastructures and capacity building among the Hindu American community.
HASC discovered there was a significant gap between the U.S. government and
Hindu/Dharmic institutions, particularly in capacity building and areas of
civic engagement between these institutions and organization and the
various stakeholders in our country.
To download the report prepared by The Hindu American Seva Charities for
President Obama click here.
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UNITED STATES, May 2010: Less than
a fortnight ago, Harvard University announced that the Murthy family of
Bangalore (Narayana Murthy is the Founder-Chairman of Infosys a global
software company) had established a new publication series called the
Murthy Classical Library Series (MCLI) with a generous gift of $5.2
million. It also announced that renowned scholar Sheldon Pollock, who is
currently Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian studies at Columbia
University, had been named the general editor of the volumes.
Although there have been many such classical series published by various
institutions, what sets this exercise apart is that it makes a significant
departure from the Orientalist project of the last couple of centuries, by
aiming to look beyond Sanskrit and religion, and dipping into India's
multilingual literary heritage. In other words, the Murthy series seeks to
broaden the idea of India. It promises to be pluralistic and inclusive.
This unique project will present, in English translation, canonized
classical texts available for centuries in various regional tongues like
Kannada, Tamil, Oriya, Telugu, Punjabi, Urdu, Persian, Gujarati, Bangla and
so on, besides Sanskrit. An extraordinary feature of the project is that
each volume will be presented as a bilingual edition. These 'definitive'
volumes will seek to serve both the general public and academics.
Pollock explained the vision behind the project: "India possesses the
longest continuous and richest multilingual literary tradition in the
world. To forget this literature is not only to lose a resource for living
of potentially immeasurable benefit, but to lose part of one's self. As the
Bhagavad Gita says, the loss of memory entails the loss of mind."
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NEW YORK, May 18, 2010: Amid the
sweeping vistas and grand temples of mystical India, Natalia Makarova's
staging of this great Russian classic by Marius Petipa, with music by
Ludwig Minkus, is a glorious epic of eternal love and revenge. La Bayadere
offers tour de force performances by ABT Principal Dancers as the tale's doomed
temple dancer, Nikiya, the warrior who betrays her, Solor, and her
archrival, Gamzatti. The ballet also features the famed vision of the
"Kingdom of the Shades," showcasing the corps de ballet in
gossamer white tutus, who fill the stage in perfect unison sublime as
angels arriving from heaven.
Performance dates, times and dancers can be found at the link provided.
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KOZHIKODE, INDIA, MAY 18, 2010:
Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan, on Monday, officially announced the
Kerala State Organic Farming policy aimed at making farming sustainable and
ensuring toxin-free food to public within 10 years.
Speaking on the occasion at the Urban Wholesale Agricultural Market at
Vengeri here, he said many districts which had already commenced organic
farming had reported good results. However, this was confined to limited
spaces and resources. Now, the government would implement the policy on a
large scale in all districts, thus avoiding the use of chemical fertilizers
and pesticides, Mr. Achuthanandan said.
Repeated use of pesticides resulted in pollution of water bodies and soil
as well as destruction of flora and fauna. Consumption of chemically
treated vegetables and food grains had even led to pesticide residual in
breast milk, he said.
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As your mind releases its desires
and cravings, it releases the hold that it has on you. You dive deeper,
fearlessly into this blazing avalanche of light, losing your consciousness.
And as you come back into the mind, you see the mind for what it is, and
you are free. You find that you are no longer attached because you see that
the binder and the bound are one. You become the path. You become the way.
You are the light.
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001)
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PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO,
May 25, 2010 (By Paras Ramoutar):
Trinidad and Tobago has elected its first female Prime Minister in the
person of Mrs. Kamla Persad-Bissessar following elections held on Monday.
She is a devout Hindu, and her People's Partnership won 29 out of the 41
parliamentary seats. Persad-Bissessar is expected to swear in as Prime
Minister on Tuesday evening by President George Maxwell Richards.
She will also become Chairman of the Commonwealth Heads of Government
Meeting. Among her academic credentials are a B.A., LLB degree in Law,
Master's in Business Administration, and a Diploma in Education, all from
the University of the West Indies.
She was the first woman to lead any political party in oil-rich Trinidad
and Tobago. Her meteoric rise had its genesis last January 24 when he
challenged her former political guru and mentor, Basdeo Panday for the
leadership of the United National Congress. She won ten to one in the tally
of votes.
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, KERALA, INDIA,
May 23, 2010: Jyotsna Padmanabhan, a 12-year-old girl, is all set to script
history by being the first female in Kerala to conduct a Deity installation
in accordance with tantric rituals. The girl's entry into the sanctum
sanctorum of the Paikunikavu Sri Krishna Temple at Kattoor near Irinjalakuda
on Sunday to conduct the prathishta of Goddess Bhadrakali will mark a new
chapter in the religious history of Kerala as there is no precedent of a
woman, other than a spiritual leader, conducting a Deity installation.
Jyotsna, a seventh-standard student, belongs to Tharanallur Mana, one of
the two Tantri families in Kerala. Born and brought up in the world of
temples and poojas, she has developed a keen interest in tantric rituals
and started learning under Tharanallur Padmanabhan Namboothiripad, the tantri
of many renowned temples including Sree Rama Temple in Thriprayar and
Koodalmanikyam temple in Irinjalakuda.
Jyotsna's father Padmanabhan Namboothiripad said the move was not meant to
create any controversy, rather to say that the tantric Hinduism did not ban
women from performing rites. "Tantric science says that women are
ideal to perform these rites. Problem is with the ritual and practices.
Rituals are bound to change in the course of time," he said. He said
he was guiding his daughter in the path of truth and teaching her the best
science known to him.
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BALI, INDONESIA, May 22, 2010:
Balinese Hindus will celebrate a religious day known as Kuningan on
Saturday May 22, 2010. This ceremonial occasion falls exactly 10 days after
the Galungan rituals and is a time to commemorate ancestral spirits as they
return to heaven after dwelling on earth for an extended period.
Worshipers express their gratitude through prayer and offerings to the Gods
for the ultimate gift of life. At Kuningan the arched bamboo poles referred
to as as penjor, which are erected in front of each Balinese home compound
during the religious festivities, are redecorated. White cloth is replaced
with yellow cloth at the base of the penjor's temporary shrine as an
indication of prosperity.
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BALI, INDONESIA, May 22, 2010:
Balinese Hindu's will celebrate a religious day known as Kuningan on
Saturday May 22, 2010. This ceremonial occasion falls exactly 10 days after
the Galungan rituals and is a time to commemorate ancestral spirits as they
return to heaven after dwelling on earth for an extended period.
Worshipers express their gratitude through prayer and offerings to the Gods
for the ultimate gift of life. At Kuningan the arched bamboo poles referred
to as as penjor, which are erected in front of each Balinese home compound
during the religious festivities, are redecorated. White cloth is replaced
with yellow cloth at the base of the penjor's temporary shrine as an
indication of prosperity.
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Source: Religion News Services
WASHINGTON, DC, USA: The U.S.
Supreme Court will review the constitutionality of an Arizona program that
provides state tax breaks for donations to private school scholarship
programs. As part of the 13-year-old tax-tuition program, taxpayers receive
a dollar-for-dollar reduction in state income taxes for their donations to
not-for-profit school-tuition organizations. Last year, 91.5 percent of the
$52 million collected in Arizona went to religious schools, according to
The Arizona Republic.
Opponents, including the American Civil Liberties Union and others, argue
the program violates the First Amendment, which prohibits government
establishment of religion. "Arizona's convoluted scheme is a backdoor
way of subsidizing religious education," said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn,
executive director of Americans United for the Separation of Church and
State. The Christian legal group Alliance Defense Fund will defend
Arizona's tax-tuition program. ADF attorneys said the program "is
constitutional because it involves individual, private choices and funding,
not government action or money." While the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals declared last year that the Arizona program violated the separation
of church and state, the Supreme Court has upheld cases that give parents
public funding for private institutions.
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INDIA, May 2010: Eating ginger can
help ease muscle pain caused by heavy exercise, says a latest research.
Ginger root has been used as a household remedy for centuries for a variety
of ailments, such as cough and colds and upset stomach, but now the study
has revealed that ginger is particularly good for staving off muscle pain.
Professor Patrick O'Connor, of the University of Georgia, who led the
research, believes this remedy can be better than consuming painkiller
drugs. The study showed daily ginger intake reduced the exercise-induced
pain by 25 per cent. It is known to contain chemicals that work in a
similar way to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as ibuprofen and
aspirin.
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Dharma is the only solution for all
the ills the society is facing today. H.H. Swami Jayendra Saraswati, Shankaracharya
of Kanchi Peetam, calling on families-- during his 64th birthday--to adopt
the morals and culture of India in daily life.
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SRINAGAR, KASHMIR, May 16, 2010: A
number of Kashmir Pandits offered rituals at the historic Vicharnag temple,
when it reopened after a 20 year hiatus. Located in the district's Soura
city, once famous for being center of discourse and learning for Muslims
and Hindus, the Vicharnag temple had closed in the 1990 when the Kashmiri
Pandits migrated from the Kashmir valley following ethnic turbulence.
"Every year, during the nine-day Hindu festival of Navaratri, a grand
fair used to take place. Hundreds of devotees of all age groups used to
converge here but the area has remained deserted for the last 22 years. Now
it has been reopened and people have started coming," said Avtar
Kishan Koul, a devotee.
The All Parties Migrants Coordination Committee in the state started the
drive two years ago to open all Hindu temples and shrines in the Valley to
restore their glory. "I feel very happy to meet the Hindus from
Kashmir. They are our guests. Twenty-thirty years ago, we used to eat from
the same platter, and help each other during weddings," said Abdul
Samadh, a Muslim.
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CHENNAI, INDIA, May 22, 2010: Craig
Venter's laboratory cell violates the divine law of creation, says Kanchi
Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati, who believes that creating life in a
laboratory is an act of defiance against God. "Venter's work violates
karma, which alone decides the nature of life for all humans and, besides,
creating life in a lab could cause cultural degradation as it eliminates
the need for marriage and family values," said Swami when asked about
the creation of "synthetic cells" announced by Venter's
laboratory in Rockville, Maryland, USA.
Scientific advancement could be used to provide vital needs, the pontiff
said, welcoming the use of research to make vaccines and biofuels.
"But if a man is synthetically created, his body would not be guided
by past karma and he would behave just like a machine," he warned.
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CHENNAI, INDIA, May 22, 2010: This
summer, ethnic wear seems to be the flavor of the season. Cutting across
departmental stores, kurtis and other apparel are flying off the shelves
with customers queuing up for the latest in comfortable Indian wear even
while western designer labels fret over silhouettes and sizes for the
domestic buyers. Max, the value retail arm of the Landmark group, has been
seeing encouraging sales in the segment. "Women's Indian wear alone
accounts for around 25% of our revenues," says Vasanth Kumar,
executive director of Max. "We're now planning to introduce saris in
our next store in Chennai."
The biggest change comes from fusion wear. It is becoming a common sight to
see women combine kurtis with jeans, clingy t-shirts with ethnic print
skirts or tunics with chudidar-style leggings. Shoppers Stop has introduced
a fusion wear label, Haute Curry, with musician Anoushka Shankar as its
brand ambassador. "This brand is targeted at college girls and young
women," says Govind Shrikhande, CEO of Shoppers Stop. "Indian
wear accounts for 25% of our sales and we're positive on this
category."
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Only one task to do here: find out
who you are. How do you find out who you are? Dive into silence.
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[HPI note: Today's edition of HPI
brings two articles about the same subject: new curriculum standards
approved by the Texas State Board of Education. The contrast between the
first article (from a Texan newspaper) and the second one (from a UK
newspaper) makes for an enlightening comparison.]
TEXAS, UNITED STATES, May 21, 2010: The Texas State Board of Education on
Friday approved new curriculum standards for U.S. history and other social
studies courses that reflect a more conservative tone than in the past.
Split along party lines, the board voted 9-5 to adopt the new standards,
which will dictate what is taught in all Texas schools and provide the
basis for future textbooks and student achievement tests over the next
decade. The decision affects not only Texas students, but others across the
United States because Texas standards because national publishers typically
tailor their materials to Texas, one of the biggest textbook purchasers in
the country.
Before the final vote on the lengthy list of standards, the board's five
Democrats criticized the Republican majority - primarily social
conservatives - for injecting their political and religious views into the
standards and giving short shrift to important minority figures in history.
Board member Cynthia Dunbar, R-Richmond, another social conservative,
opened Friday's board meeting with an invocation that referred to the U.S.
and its history as a "Christian land governed by Christian principles.
I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that
the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our
guiding geniuses," she said.
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UNITED KINGDOM, May 16, 2020:
Cynthia Dunbar, a conservative Texas lawyer, does not have a high regard
for her local schools. She has called them unconstitutional, tyrannical and
tools of perversion. Now Dunbar is on the brink of fulfilling a promise to
change all that, or at least point Texas schools toward salvation. She is
one of a clutch of Christian evangelists and social conservatives who have
grasped control of the state's education board. This week they are expected
to force through a new curriculum that is likely to shift what millions of
American schoolchildren far beyond Texas learn about their history.
The board is to vote on a sweeping purge of alleged liberal bias in Texas
school textbooks in favor of what Dunbar says really matters: a belief in
America as a nation chosen by God as a beacon to the world, and free
enterprise as the cornerstone of liberty and democracy. Those corrections
have prompted a blizzard of accusations of rewriting history and
indoctrinating children by promoting rightwing views on religion, economics
and guns while diminishing the science of evolution, the civil rights
movement and the horrors of slavery.
Several changes include sidelining Thomas Jefferson, who favored separation
of church and state, while introducing a new focus on the "significant
contributions" of pro-slavery Confederate leaders during the civil
war. The new curriculum asserts that "the right to keep and bear
arms" is an important element of a democratic society. Study of Sir
Isaac Newton is dropped in favor of examining scientific advances through
military technology. The education board has dropped references to the slave
trade in favor of calling it the more innocuous "Atlantic triangular
trade", and recasts the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as driven by
Islamic fundamentalism.
"There is a battle for the soul of education," said Mavis Knight,
a liberal member of the Texas education board. "They're trying to
indoctrinate with American exceptionalism, the Christian founding of this
country, the free enterprise system [known elsewhere as Capitalism]. There
are strands where the free enterprise system fits appropriately but they
have stretched the concept of the free enterprise system back to medieval
times. The president of the Texas historical association could not find any
documentation to support the stretching of the free enterprise system to
ancient times but it made no difference."
The curriculum has alarmed liberals across the country in part because
Texas buys millions of text books every year, giving it considerable sway
over what publishers print. By some estimates, all but a handful of
American states rely on text books written to meet the Texas curriculum.
The California legislature is considering a bill that would bar them from
being used in the state's schools. For the complete article, click on the
url above.
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INDIA, May 17, 2010: Tens of
thousands of Indian couples tied the knot on Sunday May 16, one of the
luckiest days in the Hindu calendar. "There are 50,000 weddings
happening today" in Mumbai alone, said wedding planner Jarret D'Abreo
of Marry Me. "The wedding that we are working on has been booked eight
months in advance," explained Candice Pereira, the company's creative
head and co-founder.
There are only a few lucky dates per year in the Hindu calendar. Sunday's
was called Akshaya Tritiya. "All the stars are aligned during this
day. Whatever offerings and work you do on this day will go right. It's one
day of the year which will bring immense good luck," Indian astrologer
R.K. Sharma said. The exact date of the festival is based on the alignment
of the moon, the stars and the planets. "Whatever is celebrated during
this day -- be it purchasing a car or a house or gold or even getting
married -- brings good luck and that effect is multiplied. It's the most
auspicious day of the year," said Sharma.
The festival is driving up sales in India's jewelry shops, one merchant
said. Vummidi Bagaru Jewellers had about twice as much daily trade as
usual, and could reach three times as much, partner Jiphendra Vummidi said
from Chennai. People made plans in advance to make their purchases on
Akshaya, he said. "They're purchases they wanted to get for a wedding
or an occasion -- jewelry predominantly, but bullion coins are also being
bought," he said. "It's a day when you could do anything good and
it's supposed to help you do that good through the year," he said of
Akshaya.
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Source: Press Release
SAN RAMON, CA, June 1, 2010: The
Hindu American Foundation (HAF) reacted with shock at the May 26th collapse
of a tower of the famous Sri Kalahasti temple near Tirupati in the Indian
state of Andhra Pradesh. The temple, a place of great historical
significance, was a revered place of worship for millions of Hindus.
Leaders also extended condolences to the families of the victims of the
devastating collapse.
Contrary to several media reports citing King Krishnadevaraya of the
Vijayanagar empire as having built the temple, Krishnadevaraya built only
the now collapsed tower in 1516 CE, bringing the temple to its current
form. Evidence reveals the temple to have been constructed much earlier.
Historical literary references to the temple are found in the works of
Nakkeerar, a Tamil poet in 3rd Century BCE during the Tamil Sangam period,
who called it the "Southern Kailash." And inscriptions in the
temple, as well as the architecture, also indicate that the Chola, Pallava,
Pandya and Vijayanagar dynasties had all contributed to the temple over the
centuries.
"It is tragic that what would be considered a national monument in any
other country was simply allowed to collapse in this manner as a result of
the callous disregard of Andhra Pradesh State Government officials,"
said Padma Kuppa, a member of HAF's Executive Council and a native of the
state of Andhra Pradesh. "That nothing was done about the cracks in
the tower, which were first reported over a decade ago, at worst speaks to
incompetence, and indeed corruption, of those responsible for preserving
India's heritage." Most recent media reports indicate that the Chief
Minister of Andhra Pradesh, has promised to reconstruct the collapsed tower
with the help of the Archeological Survey of India.
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HAF leaders held that this latest tragedy highlighted again the unique
challenges Hindus face in India as the only faith community whose places of
worship are often under financial and management control by ostensibly
secular state governments in India. Andhra Pradesh as well as many other
state governments administer and manage most major Hindu temples in India
today.
"It is ridiculous that governments, sometimes run by the Communist
Party of India in states such as Kerala and West Bengal, arrogate unto
themselves the right to manage temple affairs including the conduct of
religious rituals," said Swaminathan Venkataraman, a member of HAF's
Board of Directors. "The fact that only Hindu institutions are subject
to such treatment while churches and mosques are not makes a mockery of
Indian secularism."
HAF reported urgent pleas from its members over the last week calling for
state governments in India to entrust Hindu temples to reputable and
well-organized Hindu religious organizations, including the Hindu Dharma
Acharya Sabha, to provide Hindus the same opportunities for autonomous
management enjoyed by other faith traditions.
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REUNION, May 20, 2010: The great
consecration of the Narassingua Peroumal temple at Ravine-Blanche happened
on Monday. The prayers and ceremonies to prepare for this big event had
been ongoing with ten priests who have come from Southern India.
At the temple of the Ravine-Blanche, Swami S. Nagaraja Sivachariya is head
of ceremonies for this great consecration. Officiating at the temple since
1991, Sivachariyar explains the importance of attending a mahakukmbhabhishekam
as "equivalent to ten years of prayer in a temple."
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MUMBAI, INDIA, May 2010: Christian
schools in the Indian city of Mumbai have opposed a proposal by civic
authorities to promote Hindu culture in classrooms. They argue that plans
to introduce what they call "Hindutva culture" into missionary
schools is unconstitutional and unfair. A proposal to include Hindu culture
in the curriculum of those schools is now being considered by the
Maharashtra state government.
The body which runs the 150-odd Christian schools in Mumbai is now
preparing to take legal action. Archdiocesan Board of Education (Abe)
General Secretary Gregory Lobo told the BBC that his schools "promoted
respect for all faiths and there is no need to focus on a particular
faith."
Abe schools receive financial help from the Mumbai Municipal Corporation,
which put forward the new proposal during a review of financial help given
to these schools. A right-wing Hindu coalition comprising the Shiv Sena
party and the Bharatiya Janata Party runs the corporation.
[HPI note: Considering the goals and methods of most missionary activities
in India, the statement that "there is no need to focus on a
particular faith" is blatantly misleading. Those schools focus heavily
on one faith, the Christian faith of the missionaries. Introducing studies
about Hindu culture would not promote Hinduism, but rather balance -- to some
extent -- the continuous inculcation of Christian beliefs.]
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UNITED STATES, May 21, 2010: In the
chemotherapy infusion room at the Staten Island University Hospital sit
several cancer patients hooked up to IVs. But they aren't leafing through
magazines or staring at a talk show and worrying about their health.
Instead, their right legs are lifted up in the air, and they're circling
their ankles clockwise while breathing deeply under the instruction of
their yoga teacher.
A growing body of literature suggests that yoga can be beneficial for
multiple serious and chronic health conditions. And now, new research
released Thursday ahead of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
meeting suggests yoga has beneficial effects on sleep quality, fatigue, and
overall quality of life in cancer survivors.
The new study, funded by the National Cancer Institute's Office of Cancer
Complementary and Alternative Medicine, was carried out in nine different
community sites around the country. "To my knowledge, this is the
largest clinical trial using yoga intervention in cancer survivors [to
date]," said lead study author Karen Mustian, an exercise psychologist
and physiologist at the University of Rochester.
In the trial, 410 patients who had completed cancer therapy were split into
two groups: one that participated in a four-week-long, twice-weekly yoga
program, and one that did not. Compared to how they felt beforehand, the
survivors who participated in the yoga program afterward reported
improvements in sleep quality and fatigue. Yoga participants also used less
sleep medication than they did before the program, while non-yoga participants
actually increased their use of sleep medication.
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Many people are afraid of silence.
They have to be doing something all the time. Many people also are afraid
of being alone. But actually no one ever is alone. He's always with his
great divine Self. Every person has a great, divine Self within him an
absolutely perfect, shining, sublime being of light. The voice of this
being is a loud silence. The voice of your soul is a loud silence. Many
people have said that the voice of God is a deep, profound silence.
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001),
founder of Hinduism Today
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Om Tat Sat
(Continued...)
(My humble salutations to Sadguru Sri Sivaya Subramuniyaswami ji,
Satguru Bodhianatha Velayanswami ji, Hinduism
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