Namaste,
From Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh, USA, we wish you Happy Makar Samkranti. Certain Hindu festivals are
associated with the annual cycle of
seasons. Pongal in the South and Sankranti in the North are celebrated
to mark the withdrawal of the southeast monsoons as well as the reaping
of the harvest. Pongal festivities are spread over several days. Like
Deepawali in the north, the advent of Pongal is associated with
spring-cleaning and burning of junk, symbolizing the destruction of
evil.h you Happy Makar Sankranti.
UTTARAAYANA PUNYA-KAALA This holy day marks the commencement of the
Sun's northern course in the Heavens - the Uttaraayana patha. This turn
in the Sun's course takes place at the point of time when it enters the
sign of Makara or Capricorn. From this day the day-duration increases
and the night decreases. It is the harbinger of more light and sunshine
in life and lessening of its darker aspects. This happy occasion is
termed as Pongal in Tamilnadu and as Khichadi in northern Bharat - both
of them being names of sweet delicacies specially prepared on that day!
Light symbolizes the warmth, i.e., the love and affection, the quality
of the heart.
On the social plane, the Sankraanti carries a vital significance for
national welfare. It is the warmth of love and fellow-feeling among the
people of a country that ultimately makes them stand up in unison in
adversity or in prosperity. It is the necessary lubricant to make the
nation's machine work smoothly without friction. Even the great
precepts of `liberty' and `equality' lose their meaning without the
basic requisite of `fraternity' among the people. Fraternity alone will
ensure a spirit of selfless service and sacrifice in the cause of
fellow countrymen. Selfishness - the ultimate destructor of the social
fabric - is cured and social consciousness generated where a spirit of
fraternity is alive.
To mark this Solar Journey, HSS, USA along with many other yoga clubs
and organizations, began second year in a row, Surya Namaskar Yagna.
Please take a time to read more about Surya Namskar Yagna and its
personal health benefits to the entire family and the society.
Dhanyavad!
 With
over 100 HSS Balagokulam centers - shakhas, several yoga studios,
temples, Universities and Schools, HSS successfully started
second year in row its ambitious Surya Namaskar Yagna with an aim to
achieve one million Surya Namaskars and raise awareness about
undisputed role of this uniuqe Bharatiya yoga concept in health and
fitness of human being. read more...
TATTVA (Online Hindu Youth Magazine, Hindu Yuva) launches a new website
TATTVA is an international online monthly magazine, published by Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh's Hindu YUVA. Starting with the December 2007, Tattva will be released on a new website at
www.hinduyuva.org/tattva-blog
. Unlike its past issues which used to be in pdf, future issues will be
published in an innnovative blog format. The new, more interactive
format of Tattva will provide a forum for youth to share knowledge and
ideas, voice opinions, discuss issues, and learn from one another.
Some
of the latest features on the website allow readers to read articles
directly on the website, quickly and easily access of previous issues
of Tattva, access articles according to categories including
Biographies of famous Indian leaders, the Bhagavad Gita, Hindu history,
festivals, editorials, current events, shlokas, yoga, Sanskrit and many
more.
Read more...
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Speaker on Campus - Outreaching Hinduism to the Campus Community
TATTVA is an international online monthly magazine, published by Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh's Hindu YUVA. Starting with the December 2007, Tattva will be released on a new website at
www.hinduyuva.org/tattva-blog
. Unlike its past issues which used to be in pdf, future issues will be
published in an innnovative blog format. The new, more interactive
format of Tattva will provide a forum for youth to share knowledge and
ideas, voice opinions, discuss issues, and learn from one another.
Some
of the latest features on the website allow readers to read articles
directly on the website, quickly and easily access of previous issues
of Tattva, access articles according to categories including
Biographies of famous Indian leaders, the Bhagavad Gita, Hindu history,
festivals, editorials, current events, shlokas, yoga, Sanskrit and many
more. Read more... |
Yuva for Sewa
A unique opportunity for college students and new college graduates to change
the world. Do you want to help others and make an impact locally, nationally and
internationally? Then consider volunteering with Sewa International USA!
Sewa International USA encourages young adults to volunteer and provide a
helping hand to one that needs the most. The projects are designed to develop
personality, build leadership and team work, empower visionaries and provide
experience in helping the community. It is an opportunity to put Swami
Vivekananda's vision of Sewa into action. Read more...
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Amrit Vachan
"It is India that gave us the
ingenious method of expressing all the numbers by ten symbols, each
receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value, a profound
and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its
true merit. But its very simplicity, the great ease which it has lent
to all computations, puts our arithmetic in the first rank of useful
inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of this achievement
more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and
Appolonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity." -- French
Mathematician Laplace
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