Light and Lakshmi assume central focus at Divali celebrations worldwide as the prayer “Tamaso Maa Jyotir Gamaya” rents the air together with our pleas to the divine Mother, “Lead me from darkness to light, O Maa.” This inner craving for light, though much more espoused at Divali, is the perennial search ...
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Trinidad and Tobago celebrated forty-eight years of independence at the end of August. For almost half-century, we have managed our own economy, society and resources, both natural and human. Yet, most elders will tell you that life long ago was much sweeter. A man could take his family for an ...
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The recent marked increase in oblations to Lord Ganesh has attracted quite a variety of opinions world-wide by both believers and non-believers of the Hindu faith. This has been sparked by a worldwide phenomenon whereby murtis of the Lord have been apparently drinking the milk offered by his devotees. Many ...
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Lifeskills have been identified as a critical area of development for youths and have recently gotten much attention and resources by various governments around the world. In the Caribbean a Lifeskills curriculum has been developed that focuses on four pillars: • Self and Interpersonal Relationships (including violence prevention) • Eating and Fitness • Sexuality and Sexual ...
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Tulsidas’s birthday will be overshadowed because on the 15th of August, India celebrates its independence. At the end of this very month we in Trinidad and Tobago will also be observing the occasion marking the severing of political ties with the then colonial rulers of Europe. Let us also consider ...
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'Samay baraa balvaan’- Time is most powerful’. From a Hindu perspective, the concept of time is seen to be essential to everything that takes place in the scheme of things. It is an aspect of this illusory world and it exists as long as we are subject to the process ...
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The western world tells us about the philosophical position of Axiology. It considers what is desirable, beautiful and enjoyable and then what is good and right. It focuses then on quality of life as it relates to the senses interacting with the mundane and then the individual’s attitudes and behaviour ...
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