Life is often compared to a book, each chapter representing one particular phase of our life; but there is one major difference between my life and my book; I cannot turn back the pages of my life. I cannot revisit the past except in my memories. Nor can I read the final chapter of my […]

Source ENCINITAS, CALIFORNIA, October 23, 2012 (ABC News): Parents in a southern California community are considering legal action over the constitutionality of a form of yoga being taught to their children, which they claim is introducing religion into public schools. Last month, half of the students attending classes in the Encinitas Union School District K-6 […]

Source DENPASAR, BALI, INDONESIA, October 26, 2012 (AP): An archaeologist says a structure that is believed to be the remains of an ancient Hindu temple has been unearthed on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali. Wayan Swantika of the local archaeology agency says workers digging a drainage basin last week in eastern Denpasar, Bali’s capital, at […]

Source FLORIDA, U.S., October 15, 2012 (Huffington Post, by Vasudha Narayanan): Formal, printed invitations in previous years, and now e-vites start coming in September to announce the coming of the festival of Navratri (literally, “nine nights”). The invitations, issued by those whose original home is or was in parts of South India, are printed in […]

Source SRINIGAR, INDIA, October 20, 2012: As part of continuous efforts to revive the centuries-old harmony and brotherhood in the Kashmir Valley, a Shiva temple at Rainawari in the city here was thrown open on Saturday to public after a gap of 22 years. The dilapidated temple was recently renovated by the Jammu and Kashmir […]

Source SHIMLA, INDIA, October 16,2012 (Indo-Asian News Service): Tens of thousands of devotees assembled in different parts of Himachal Pradesh Tuesday and offered prayers on the onset of the nine-day Navratra, considered by Hindus to be an auspicious period. “We are expecting the arrival of 50,000 people daily at the Naina Devi temple during the […]

Source New Delhi/Faizabad/Ramgarh, Oct. 16 (Asian News International): Devout Hindus queued up at various temples across India to mark the beginning of the nine-day long festival of Navratri, which is held in honor of the Goddess Durga which is observed twice a year, once in April and the second time in October. A majority of […]

From Heart of the Enlightened By Anthony de Mello A miser had accumulated five hundred thousand dinars and looked forward to a year of pleasant living before he made up his mind how best to invest his money, when suddenly the Angel of Death appeared before him to take his life away. The man begged […]

Dear Devotees,   Our Math will be celebrating Sri Sri Durgashtami on Monday, 22nd October 2012, as per the programme given below. You along with your relatives and friends are cordially invited to participate and receive the blessings of the Divine Mother.   Yours in the Service Swami Pramatheshananda Adhyaksha   PROGRAMMES   Mangalarati & […]

Once on a time in the kingdom of Seri, five aeons ago, the Bodhisatta dealt in pots and pans, and was called ‘the Serivan.’ In the company of another dealer in the same wares, a greedy fellow who was also known as ‘the Serivan,’ he came across the river Telavaha and entered the city of […]