(Excerpts form Hinduism Beyond Rituals,Customs And Traditions) Hinduism is an academy of sciences. It finds its dwelling in the realm of metaphysics besides accepting the environment of physical realities where most sciences reside. That is what distinguishes the ancient Indian sciences that these go beyond the empirical confines to explore and analyze the spiritual realities…
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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Radhey Krishna Painting Portrays Love
Artist: Tejpal Singh Mann, Surrey,BC,Canada This painting is called “Radhey Krishna” . It is included in the album “Jin Prem Keeyo,Tin Hee Prabhu Paayo”. It depicts Radha and Krishna at Vrindavan in and around the banks of the Yamuna river. Radha Krishna are the zenith of an ideal love.Krishna was the eighth incarnation of Lord Visnu….
Shabad In Gurbani by Bhagat Kabir
Awal Allah noor upaya (In the beginning God created light) Kudrat ke sab bandey (All are nature’s creations/people) Ek noor se sab jag upja (From that One Light the whole world has been born) Kaun bhaley,kau mandey? (So how can some be good and some evil?) prgressivehindudialogue.com
Rakshabandan’ – the festival that celebrates the brother-sister bond
Mathew Schmalz, College of the Holy Cross This year, Monday, August 7 marks one of the most important celebrations for Hindus throughout the world: Rakshabandhan, a ceremony honoring the bond between sisters and brothers. The date of Rakshabandan varies from year to year since Hindus follow a lunar calendar for religious celebrations. During Rakshabandhan sisters…
BC Fires And The Sun
The Sun is in the news. It is presenting itself up in the sky as round light bulb with scarlet ring. The ongoing forest fires in the Interior of BC has tinted the Sun god because of the haze produced which spreads out in the Greater Vancouver area. Whereas, we are wishing that the BC…
Social Divinity And Hinduism
By Promod Puri, Editor Progressive Hindu Dialogue Seeking the divine spirit is a spiritual pursuit. And within that pursuit is the social aspects of the divinity which impact the Hindu mind to develop a personality of goodness. Divine or divinity relates to all those aspects coming from God or god which are basically understood as…
Hinduism and its complicated history with cows
Hinduism and its complicated history with cows (and people who eat them) Are cows sacred to all Hindus? Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago Just this past June, at a national meeting of various Hindu organizations in India, a popular preacher, Sadhvi Saraswati, suggested that those who consumed beef should be publicly hanged. Later, at the…
Who Are Right: Atheists Or Believers In God
Atheists (e.g. Christopher Hitchens in “The Portable Atheist”) deny or disbelieve the existence of a supreme being, not by putting forward their own reasons or facts, but by ridiculing, condemning and even satirising believers who themselves accept and trust absurd, unrealistic, and imaginary explanations about God, and still have firm convictions in Him. progressivehindudialogue.com
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