October, 1998
Digital Dharma
FOOD On-Line Cookbook No one has solved the interface problem between cookbooks and kitchens, nor CDs and kitchens, and …
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October, 1998
24 articles
October, 1998
Evolutions
RECOVERING: From quintuple heart bypass surgery at New York's Lenox Hill Hospital on July 7 is H.H. Pramukh Swami M…
Philosophy & Scripture
Not Taking It Out on Kids
By Tara Katir You are out shopping with your child. She sees a treat and thinks she must have it. […]
October, 1998
Briefly . . .
A SAGE OF THE FOREST, 80-year-old Swami Vankhandi lives high on India's Nidimba mountain. He is using his spiritual…
Philosophy & Scripture
Awaken Moral Force,See Unity in God
BY SRI-LA-SRI SANTOSHI MA JI I want to do something for society. Just because I am a woman, I do […]
Philosophy & Scripture
Karma Comes Full Circle
In the popular us television series, Early Edition, young Gary Hobson, co-manager of a Chicago bar, mysteriously receive…
Culture & Society
Leafing Through a Life
Imagine walking into a simple dwelling in India and having someone you have never met pull out an ancient palm [……
October, 1998
Diaspora
COMMUNITY Helping Strangers I thought that was awfully nice of them,” said Debbie Marsh in a hot and muggy Yuba [&…
Publisher's Editorials
Angelic Beings Are a Living Reality
BY SATGURU SIVAYA SUBRAMUNIYASWAMI Devotion to God and the Gods of Hinduism is alive in Bali, as our fascinating feature…
October, 1998
Letters
ALL RELIGIONS ARE NOT THE SAME The October 1997 Minister’s Message by Swami Dayananda Saraswati stimulated much di…
Philosophy & Scripture
Bali: Island Of the Gods
With SARA SASTRA in Denpasar, Bali, NYOMAN WENTEN in California and RIMA XOYAMAYAGYA in Texas Filmmaker Lawrence Blair, …
October, 1998
Quotes & Quips
""I'VE BEEN PRACTICING TWO MONTHS TO SAY HIS NAME. HE'S MY BOSS, SO I HAVE TO PRONOUNCE IT CORRECTLY…
Opinion
Will Tourism Trample Bali’s Hindu Heritage?
BY I MADE SURYASA Bali is a Hindu outpost in the world’s biggest Muslim country, Indonesia, with more than 200 [&h…
Philosophy & Scripture
Why Do Hindus Say, “I Am Not a Hindu”?
By the Editor There are two kind of Hindus: those who admit they are Hindu and those who will admit […]
The Arts
Consummate Island Arts
A major benefit of Bali’s thriving tourist industry to world culture enthusiasts is the abundance of mediums to pr…
Culture & Society
Vicarious Voyaging
Fortunately for those who don’t have the means to travel to Bali, the island is one of the most thoroughly [&helli…
Temples & Pilgrimage
Outstanding Offerings
One balmy evening in Ubud, Bali visitor Rima Xoyamaygya looked out her hotel window: “Streaming by me were 300 chi…
Temples & Pilgrimage
Giving Demons and Deities Their Due
Perhaps nowhere on earth is Hinduism more energetic and culturally explicit than on the tiny island of Bali. It has [&he…
Philosophy & Scripture
Can it Be That the Hare Krishnas Are Not Hindu?
There is a misconception,” wrote His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1977 in Science of Self R…
Philosophy & Scripture
Who Then Are the Hindus?
To find out which organizations with prominence in the West call themselves Hindus, we tapped the massive power of the […
Health & Ayurveda
Sweet and Insidious: Please Pass the Sugar
BY DEVANANDA TANDAVAN Sugar’s effect on our well being is a very controversial subject. Any of the following sympt…
Environment
The Buttersweet Benefits of Ghee
BY BRAHMACHARINI MAYA TIWARI Vedic seers considered milk to be the most sattvic (peace-producing) food for humankind. Fr…
Philosophy & Scripture
Potent Pagan Powwow
For six days over the Summer solstice, 200 representatives to the World Pagan Congress met in Vilnius, capital city of […
Philosophy & Scripture
Solar-Powered Seer
By Georg Feuerstein In this Deepavali month, it is appropriate that we honor a man of light. For thousands of […]