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Ujjain Ashram Adopts Eco-friendly Burial Process

Sewadham Ashram, a shelter home here, combines spirituality with nature conservation by adopting an eco-friendly burial process . Authorities at the Sewadham Ashram bury the dead and plant a sapling over the grave instead of consigning the mortal remains to flames as per the Hindu tradition...

Spiritual Leaders' Teachings Collected in New Novel

...nce for others to achieve a life of "Divine Play." "Life is Divine Play" follows Johnson's journey from the United States to temples in China, an ashram in Florida in the 60's, and finally California, where he apprenticed to a Daoist Wizard from China. Johnson not only reveals the profound and valuable...

NEWSWEEK: Media Lead Sheet/November 19, 2007 Issue (on newsstands Monday, November 12)

... "What the Beatles Gave Science" (p. 59). Science Columnist Sharon Begley writes about the spring of 1968 when the Beatles traveled to the Maharishi's ashram in northern India to mediate. "The high-profile visit still echoes 40 years later-in, of all places, science, for the trip popularized the notion that...

New 'green' Pyre to Cool Planet While Burning India's Dead

...is good from the religious point of view and also from the point of view of the pocket," said Amir Singh Bhatia, who runs the city's Seva Samiti Swarg ashram cremation ground. Mokshda hopes its projects will eventually be registered under the Kyoto Protocol's clean development mechanism, which encou...

Japanese NGO Assures Rs 75 Lakh for Leprosy Centre Relocation

..., President of Nippon Foundation and goodwill ambassador of World Health Organisation (WHO) gave the assurance when he visited the Satya Jeevan Kushta ashram on July 16, the Federation of Leprosy Organisations said in a statement here today. The rooms in the Ashram, a 20-year-old leprosy centre in La...

High-altitude Illness Affects Pilgrims of Mansarovar

...ar, a 38-year-old god woman from Maharashtra, became the latest victim dying of malignant cerebral edema in a Kathmandu hospital Sunday. Bhoyar ran an ashram in Dattapur Wardha in the western Indian state and apparently had a large number of disciples. She was part of a group of Indian pilgrims from ...

Yoga Can Keep Youths Away From Drugs: Ravi Shankar

...and it is our duty to introduce yoga, pranayam and dhyan (meditation) to them,' he said while interacting with reporters last evening at Tapobhoomi, a ashram of Brahmeshanand Swamiji at Kundaim, 15 km from here. Ravi Shankar appealed to the youths to take up yoga to lead a healthy life. 'India can ...

School Principal Suspended For Food Adulteration In Hostel

... hostels located in remote areas," Tribal Welfare Minister Vijay Shah said after the incident last week at the girl's residential school Adivasi Kanya ashram Shala in Amarkantak in Annupur district. About 20 children were taken ill after eating food provided under the midday meals programme and admitted...

Herbal Medicines with Animal, Human Body Parts! - Swami Ramdev Accused

...aboratory has confirmed that ayurvedic medicines produced in Swami Ramdev’s ashram are indeed made from human and animal products, after two samples tested up... am also fighting the multinationals. The accusations being made against my ashram and its associated ayurvedic manufacturing unit are absolutely baseless, fa...

Indian Incense Invades American Senses

... of various nations and homes are becoming used to the act of burning incense. Incense sticks from Bangalore, Mysore and Pondicherry's Aurobindo ashram seem to be clear favorites in shops and stores. ITC's agarbattis too seem to be well packaged. The Rs.10 billion agarbatti industry has reportedly b...

Ashram in Medical Technology

38.7 Million People Break Guinness World Record for Stand Up Speak Out on International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

...upport urging increased efforts to eliminate poverty. Indian spiritual leader his holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar mobilized 30,000 people at his ashram in Bangalore and millions more across the globe to raise their voices through the Art of Living Foundation. Micah Challenge, the global Christ...