USA : Karmapa ogyen Trinley wants to return to India Recently in an interview with Radio Free Asia’s (RFA) Tibet Service, the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje said he plans to return to India following his year-long stay in the United States. In October of last year, canceled a trip home to India following a general health check-up in New York that revealed medical issues. He addressed his extended stay in the United States via […]
Techies explore solutions to prevent calamities in Hajj Pilgrimage This week in a marathon Saudi contest the techies explored high-tech solutions to prevent a repeat of past calamities in the annual hajj pilgrimage. In a cavernous hall in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, thousands of software professionals and students competed in the kingdom’s first-ever hackathon, a coding festival ahead of the world’s largest pilgrimage later this month. The hajj, expected to draw more than […]
Friendships and Religion The desire for friendship is universal. It is based on our propensity to love someone. At least have one friend, who we prefer to spend time with, someone who knows us better than others do, someone we can count on when the need arises. It’s been said that a friend is a gift that we give ourselves. The friend adds to the fullness of life. Authenticity, honesty, and trust are qualities we […]
Haj 2018 News Updates More than half a million reach Saudi Arabia so far for Hajj The number of pilgrims coming from outside Saudi Arabia, since July 14, has now reached 567,459 so far. It is an increase of about 7 per cent over their number the same period last year. The General Directorate of Passports in Saudi Arabia said in a report that the number of pilgrims coming by air has reached 558,505, by […]
Aadi Velli – A Time When the Divine Powers Of Shakti Are Doubled The Tamil month Aadi is the fourth month of the Tamil Calendar, this month is the Dakshinayana punyakalam or the night time of Devas. Aadi is a month of fervour and observances in Goddess related to Water-forces and Natural forces (e.g. Maria Amman temples, Mundakanni amman temples etc.) where prayers and pujas are offered to propitiate the powerful goddesses and seek their […]
Street Gods of South India Travel across the South India, we are bound to encounter different small and very small as well as many open deities on the roadside. Though most of us tend to ignore them or just have look at them at move ahead, there are lots of stories and rituals attached to most of these Gods and Goddesses. They are generally Goddesses who have originated due to the need of the human. […]
Tamil Nadu: Breaking caste barriers – appoints first non-Brahmin Priest A temple in Madurai has broken caste barriers by appointing a non-Brahmin as a priest, this is the first time a temple run by the Tamil Nadu government has appointed a non-Brahmin priest. The priest speaking to the media said that he joined the temple three months ago and was appointed through the due interview process. The Karunanidhi-led DMK government offered a ‘junior priest certificate’ […]
On Friday, July 27, the full moon will pass through the shadow of the Earth. For 103 minutes, the usually silvery moon will turn blood red. It will be the longest “blood moon” lunar eclipse of the century, lasting 26 minutes longer than the last total lunar eclipse, in January. Weather permitting, Except for the people in USA and Canada rest of the world shall get to watch a beautiful celestial sight. All you need […]
Significance of Tholi Ekadashi or Sayana Ekadashi Tholi Ekadashi is the most auspicious festival of Hindus mainly the Vaishnavas who celebrate this day by keeping fast, praying and singing bhajans of Lord Vishnu on this day and also by the Hindu people all over the world. Hindu Gods one day is equal to Humans one year period. In that way the Deities one morning period = six months of our Daskshinayanam period and 1 night […]
This week Religion World will take you to Shri Kali Temple in Myanmar where the two percent of the Hindu’s struggle maintain in what is predominantly Buddhist country. Indians have been present in Myanmar for over 2,000 years, but most came in the mid-19th century, when the country’s British rulers brought a million people from various parts of India to take up posts in the government and the army, build roads and railroads or engage […]
Udupi’s Krishna temple head seer Lakshmivara Tirtha Swami (55) died this morning. According to a press release issued by the Kasturba Hospital in Manipal, the seer was found to be critically ill with breathlessness, severe hypertension and massive gastrointestinal bleed, with a history of diarrhoea and illness for a few weeks. Due to suspicion of poisoning, toxicological samples have been sent for examination, it said. It is learnt that the Shirur mutt seer had differences […]
Last week the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) had announced that they will be closing their doors to devotees for six days in August to perform ‘Ashta Bandhana Balalaya Maha Samprokshnam’. A first in the history of the temple , received lot of criticism from Devotees after the announcement making the TTD to reconsider its decision. TTD officials had announced on Sunday that they will be performing the six-day ‘Ashta Bandhana Balalaya Maha Samprokshanam’ ritual from […]
