–Promod Puri God is more than our mindset imagination of being a superhuman governing this universe.A brief and straightforward, but still far from complete, God’s characterization can be: the total of everything and every process in this universe and beyond is God. Everything, known or unknown, that exists is what the universe or Nature is…
Author: Promod Puri
Retired after 40 years of career in journalism. Former publisher and editor of The Link, a South Asian Canadian weekly newspaper from Vancouver, BC. Now a freelance writer. Published my first book titled "Hinduism:beyond rituals,customs and traditions". The book is educational dealing with all the facets of Hinduism.
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SWAMI AGNIVESH: A PROGRESSIVE HINDU CRUSADER
A man with a world vision of one humanity, he argued that people should be allowed full freedom of movement across borders through the elimination of passports and immigration laws. By Promod Puri SWAMI AGNIVESH: A PROGRESSIVE HINDU CRUSADER By Promod Puri Not all Hindus belong to the BJP, nor does BJP represent Hinduism in…
How Howard Thurman met Gandhi and brought nonviolence to the civil rights movement
“Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is no dishonour in being slaves. There is dishonour in being slave-owners. But let us not think of honour or dishonour in connection with the past. Let us realise that the future is with those who would be truthful, pure and loving.”
RELIGION HAS BEEN THE MOTIVATING FORCE IN AMERICA’S CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
By Promod Puri Even now, with very few exceptions, the American civil rights movement has never been led on a political platform. Instead, religion has been the motivating factor in the ongoing struggles and challenges, beginning with the emancipation from slavery to racism and police brutalities. Whereas religion does not find a liking in the…
Temples And Other Range Of options In Hindu Worshipping Practices
The overall mood in temple environs causes and motivates an ardent and a psychological conviction that this is the abode of God by Promod Puri An accepted convention among Hindus is to have home shrines, but a temple aside from a place of worship offers a visible embodiment of…
HINDU DEVOTIONAL PRACTICES
Besides the devotional practices at dedicated places like temples, homes, or public shrines, a striking and environmentally sensitive and gratifying feature of Hindu worshiping practices and reverence is idolizing natural landmarks like rivers, lakes, mountains, plants, animals, etc. There is divinity in all elements of nature. The belief is that gods and goddesses manifest in…
RIG VEDA: HE KNOWS, PERHAPS He DOES NOT KNOW
Who really knows? Who will here proclaim it? Whence was it produced? Whence is this creation? The gods came afterward, with the creation of this universe. Who then knows whence it has arisen? Whence this creation has arisen— perhaps it formed itself, perhaps it did not the one who looks down on it, in the…
Buddhist and Hindu philosophies help us see clearly, act wisely in an interconnected world
Krishna the charioteer guiding Arjuna in the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Matthew MacKenzie, Colorado State University (Article courtesy The Conversation) To say the world today is interconnected is a cliché. Never before have so many people been linked by their activities and consequences. But knowing how to think and act…
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