Tattva

Namaste,

As always, this edition of Tattva contains a wonderful array of articles contributed by Hindu Youth from different parts of the world. Wwe have a wonderful article on ‘Practicing Dharma: Hurdles and Incentives’ by 14 year old Soumya Murag from Cupertino, California. We end this edition of Tattva with an article by Nitin Sridhar on the silent infiltration of Bangladeshis into India and its implications. Jai Shree Ram.

Please visit http://www.hinduyuva.org/tattva-blog/2007/06/ to read the June 2007 edition of Tattva.

Ganga Cha Yamune Chaiva
Godavari Saraswati
Narmade Sindhu Kaveri
Jale Asmin Sannidhim Kuru

For centuries, Hindus have taken their morning dip while saying this prayer to the seven sacred rivers of India, beseeching that they be purified by the holy waters of these rivers. In this shloka, the one river that is called first, even before the mighty Indus, is the Ganga. Read the rest of this entry »

There are two kinds of people in this world, some who understand the cause of true happiness and most who think happiness always depends on external objects. Some spend their entire life looking for the best house or the most secured neighborhood or even the right car, assuming it will bring us utmost happiness. But a very few realize the source of true happiness. Happiness is ones state of mind, just like anger or sadness. So the source of happiness is from within our mind, not any external source. It can be said that the path to happiness is the path of dharma. Read the rest of this entry »

Bangladesh, officially the People’s Republic of Bangladesh was formed in 1971, under the leadership of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman after the bloody Bangladesh Liberation War, in which it was supported by India.¹ But, today Bangladesh had become home for Islamic terrorist outfits like Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami (HuJI), Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Purba Bangla Communist Party (PBCP).² North-East India’s separatist outfits like ULFA [Assam], ANVC[Meghalaya], NLFT[Tripura], NSCN[Nagaland], PLA[Manipur] have there camps in Bangladesh. These organizations are involved not only in creating chaos in India but also ethnic cleansing of minorities in Bangladesh. The Hindu population of Bangladesh then East Pakistan] in 1947 was 29.17%, but it decreased to 2.5% in 2001.⁴ Read the rest of this entry »

She has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim in universal history the rank that ignorance has refused her for a long time and to hold her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity.

Sylvain Levi (1863-1935) on India. She was a French scholar and Orientalist who wrote on Eastern religion, literature, and history.

Sanskrit is oldest language in the world which has retained its structure and vocabulary in the pristine form. Sanskrit is very much a spoken language today and it is spoken by an increasing number of people. Below is the fourth lesson in Spoken Sanskrit.

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