Revered Mystic Sadhguru Meets the Masses with Shimmering Humor and Inner Guidance
By Jawahar Malhotra HOUSTON: Sitting on a settee on stage, he was as easy going as a familiar friend, cracking a few jokes, sharing some sharp witticisms and all the while imparting the message of a balanced life “based on all four types of yoga, like a car with four wheels. You can only play […]
Chinmaya Mission Houston Showcases a Festive Navaratri Garaba
By Vinod Sharma HOUSTON: Chinmaya Mission Houston‘s Navaratri celebration at the Stafford Civic Center on Friday, October 16, was a grand event. Over 1200 member families and their friends gathered together to spend the evening immersed in all the elements that make the social aspects of Navaratri memorable – the happy interactions, resonating music, energetic […]
Navaratri Celebrations at Gauri Siddhivinayak Temple of Houston
HOUSTON: The temple celebrated Navaratri from Tuesday October 13 to Thursday October 22. Ashwin Navaratri- Navami Pooja & Havan of Gauri Siddhivinayak Temple of Houston is located at 5645 Hillcroft Ave Suite: 701 Houston, TX 77036. For further details call Pradip Pandya at 832-466-9868. The Gauri Siddhivinayak Temple of Houston is a Non-Profit 501(c) organization, […]
Vedanta Society Of Greater Houston Celebrates Sri Durga Puja
HOUSTON: The year 2015 has been a very delightful and active year for the devotees of the Vedanta Society of Greater Houston (VSGH). After enjoying the visits by twelve monks (one of them being Revered Swami Suhitanandaji Maharaj, the General Secretary and Head of the Administration of the Ramakrishna Order, and another Swami Sarvapriyanandaji Maharaj, […]
Durga Bari Celebrates Durga Puja in Style Despite Inclement Weather
By Sanchali Basu HOUSTON: No amount of rain could dampen the spirits of the local Bengali community in celebrating the Annual Durga Puja which everyone looks forward to the whole year. The Puja is normally celebrated over 10 days in Bengal, beginning on Mahalaya with the invocation of the goddess Mother Durga and continues on […]
Diwali and Govardhan Puja at ISKCON of Houston
HOUSTON: ISKCON of Houston is celebrating two wonderful festivals in November! Diwali or the festival of lights falls on Wednesday, November 11 and New Year – Govardhan Puja is on Thursday, November 12. The ISKCON temple, located on 1320 W 34th Street has been celebrating these time honored festivals for decades now, bettering itself each […]
Dusserah Mela Celebrated with Devotion, Pomp, Parade and Patake!!
By Jawahar Malhotra SUGAR LAND: The bright rays of the Sun were still grazing over the western rim of the Skeeters Stadium when tiny tots and other children of all ages lined up besides the stage, waiting for their names to be called to get in front of the crowd. They were dressed in their […]
Vibrant Ramleela 2015
Click here for Photo Collage By Runmee Barbara HOUSTON: On October 18, a visually opulent, hot-blooded melodramatic entertainer with exquisite dance sequences, special effects and power packed performances stole the hearts of hundreds of Indians. The 11th Ramleela production by Kusum Sharma’s “Shri Natraj School of Dance” (www.shrinatraj.com) was done in association with “Kalakriti Performing […]
Sri Meenakshi Temple Celebrates the Navarathri Festival with Highlight of Suvasini Pooja
By Bhargavi Golla HOUSTON: Navaratri is a Hindu festival of nine nights dedicated to the worship of the goddess Shakti, as the emanating power, the essence and the creative manifestation of the Supreme Being. The tenth day is commonly referred to as Vijayadashami or Dasera. It was the day on which evil was finally destroyed by good. During these nine nights, the mother […]
JVB Preksha Meditation Center Celebrates 16 Years in Houston with Grand Annual Day Event
By Seema Jain HOUSTON: “The efforts of the past become the fate of the present and the future.” -Acharya Shri Mahashraman 16 years ago in Houston, JVB Preksha Meditation Center opened its doors to envision the untiring efforts of Acharya Shri Tulsi & Acharya Shri Mahapragyaji to spread Preksha Meditation among masses of all religions. Today, JVB is proudly pioneering in […]
Up On a Hill, the Stupas Soar Over the Tall Red Temple
By Jawahar Malhotra MONROEVILLE, PA: It is quite a sight to stumble upon, tucked away in a residential tract, up on a hill overlooking the busy Route 22 a few blocks below, with a plain, white small sign indicating its purpose outside the black, double-wide wrought-iron gates: Hindu Jain Temple. If you ride up the […]
Unique Ram Leela Play at New Stafford Centre on Oct. 25
HOUSTON: This article briefly covers Ram Leela, its various styles, and some prominent places in India where this play is conducted annually Lastly, it describes the exciting Ram Leela play about to take place at Stafford centre on the October 25. Background: Lord Ram is the seventh avatar of Vishnu and King of Ayodhya. The […]
Why is it forbidden to chew tulsi leaves?
If you come to think of it, most of our rituals and traditions stand on firm scientific grounds. However, the factual logic behind most of our beliefs and customs has been buried under the sands of time and we are blindly following whatever has been handed over to us through generations, that too without questioning. […]
Significance of Navratri – the festival of nine nights
By Bhanu Didi Symbolizing victory of positivity over negativity, Navratri literally means ‘nine nights’ in Sanskrit; Nav – Nine and Ratri – nights. During these nine nights and ten days, the three forms of the goddess -Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswathi – are invoked. Amidst great celebration, the mind can be carried away and easily go […]
Come to City’s Largest Dussehra, Diwali Festival at Skeeters Stadium, Sat, Oct. 17
SUGAR LAND: “Hey Devan, let’s go to this festival on the October 17 at Skeeters Stadium,” said my younger son Rohan to his older brother Devan, clutching an ad out of the local newspaper. “What’s so interesting about it?” he replied. Rohan excitedly told him that it’s the largest cultural festival of India in the […]
The Stages of Death and the Significance of Shraddh
Questioner: I wanted to know, what is the importance of doing shraddh (rituals for the deceased)? Sadhguru: In India, if someone close to you dies, you are supposed to sit and watch – no one leaves a dead body alone. If you keep the body for over two to three days, the hair will grow. If it […]
Six curses that led to Ravana’s death
Curses can be fatal Everyone knows Lord Rama killed Ravana. But few people know that his death was a culmination of hundreds of curses being heaped on him during his entire lifetime. Indeed, the Lankan king was cursed by many people during his life. Click here for more…
Festival Season Starts at Sri Meenakshi Temple
PEARLAND: As the summer ends and the fall season begins in September the season of Hindu festivals commences each year in full swing. Ganesh Chathurthi traditionally marks as one of the events that heralds the very early start of the thanksgiving in the year for the Indian community here in the United States, as early […]
Origin of Durga – The Mythology
Devi is the great goddess of the Hindus,the consort of Shiva and she is worshiped in various forms corresponding to her two aspects: benevolence and fierceness. She is Uma, “light”; Gauri, “yellow or brilliant”; Parvati, “the mountaineer”; and Jagatmata, “the-mother-of-the-world” in her milder guise. The terrible emanations are Durga “the inaccessible”; Kali, “the black”; Chandi, […]
Radio Hungama Ganesh Mahotsav 2015
HOUSTON: “Ganapathi Bappa Moriya” was chanted by the Houston Indian Community on September 19. Yes, it was the 3rd Ganesh Mahotsav organized and celebrated by Telugu Radio Hungama at Shri Radha Krishna Temple. The Hungama’s Ganesh Mahotsav was celebrated with great enthusiasm and participation. The preparations of this sacred festival began months in advance. The committee […]
