October, 1994
Nrityagram
This is the story of a woman in love-with dance, with dedication with a dream. Thirty kilometers outside Bangalore, Odis…
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October, 1994
18 articles
October, 1994
Flash! Prahlad Freed from Fiendish Father by Lord Vishnu
Touched by divine frenzy, in transports of wrath, Narasimha, the Man-Lion Avatar of Vishnu, is held back with difficulty…
October, 1994
Can 40,000 Holy Men Shepherd India’s Future?
Bharat Sadhu Samaj is an all-India organization of sadhus, saints and ascetics formed back in 1956 for the purpose of [&…
October, 1994
6,000 Journalists Censure Media’s Ethnic Sterotyping
Atlanta, Georgia. The tables were turned, for a change. Journalists, usually the invisible chroniclers of someone else&a…
October, 1994
My Turn
Having been born in a South Indian orthodox Hindu family, I was never told that one could live on foods […]
October, 1994
Letters to the Editor
Hindu Revival I just came back from my month in India, refreshed after pilgrimages to Sabarimala (in pouring rain) and […
October, 1994
SRF Uncorks a Winner!
"Long ago in India I met a hoary Persian poet who told me that the poetry of Persia often has […]
October, 1994
Editorial
Dear Abbotji: My unmarried daughter Mala is living in an ashram in India. We were all so happy about her […]
October, 1994
Hiding Behind the Cross
In the days when the last century was approaching, Hindu swamis, Hawaiian kahunas, spiritualists (as new-agers were then…
October, 1994
Children
This month our center section focuses on children and on the samskaras, or rites of passage, that take us from [……
October, 1994
Book Reviews
LONG PILGRIMAGE: The Life and Teaching of The Shivapuri Baba, By John Bennett, pb., 188 pages, Turnstone Press Limited, …
October, 1994
Samskaras
What Are Hinduism's Rites of Passage? Hindus celebrate life's crucial junctures by holy sacraments, or rites o…
October, 1994
Global Dharma
Ramayana Building A Global Network The Vishwa Sahitya Sanskriti Sansthan (Institute of World Literature and Culture) hel…
October, 1994
Healing
Large numbers of women in India suffer cruel indignation (at best) and physical and emotional abuse and even murder (at …
October, 1994
Scriptural Quotes
Meat can never be obtained without injury to living creatures, and injury to sentient beings is detrimental to the attai…
October, 1994
Raksha Bandhan-The Family Festival
On at least one day a year, brothers have to show their love for their sisters-and be nice! On this […]
October, 1994
News in Brief
South African Hindus report things are "unbelievable" under the new Mandela government. "People were so s…
October, 1994
Parenting, Part 1
Hindu precepts, societal customs and elders' example all guide parents in child-raising. But invariably everyone mo…