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Head of Hindu Monastery of Africa, Ghana, Swami Satyanand dies

Head of Hindu Monastery of Africa, Ghana, Swami Satyanand dies

Swami Satyanand joined the divine order of Sannyasi when he was initiated by his Guru Swami Ghananand Saraswati on the 12th February, 2012. Swami Satyanand was a Ghanaian born a Catholic and in his adult life became a Hindu and worked for the Hindu Dharma for over 35 years. [...]

May 31, 2019 HHR Archives, Global Hindus, News updates, World Focus 0

Angel Millar: My Path to Hinduism

Angel Millar: My Path to Hinduism

“All men dream,” said T. E. Lawrence, “but not equally.” Artistic, introspective and questioning, even as a child it was clear to those around me that I was, in Lawrence’s terminology, a “dreamer of the day.” I disliked what I regarded as the shallow materialism and trivial ways people interacted in the West. But above [...]

August 20, 2013 HHR ReBorn Again Hindus 1

How and Why I Am a Hindu

How and Why I Am a Hindu

I am an American like many other Americans, born into a family of mixed European and Native American ancestry. My interest in my own origins started early. I knew that my European ancestors were pagans who were converted to Abrahamic faiths, and that my Native ancestors were pagans mostly obliterated by those Europeans. I knew [...]

July 28, 2013 HHR Archives, Articles, ReBorn Again Hindus, Spirituality/Culture 1

One Man’s Strange Path from N.Y. Jew to Hindu Honcho

One Man’s Strange Path from N.Y. Jew to Hindu Honcho

In 1968, only six years after founding the AEPi chapter at his Long Island University campus, Steven Silberfein took one of the thousand names of the Hindu god Vishnu and became Sridhar Silberfein.A year later, the one-time Jewish fraternity brother escorted the Hindu teacher Swami Satchidananda to the stage at Woodstock to deliver an invocation [...]

May 24, 2013 HHR Spirituality/Culture 0

My Road to Hinduism by Vincent Bruno

My Road to Hinduism by Vincent Bruno

While In ‘secular ‘ India Hinduism is often portrayed as being backward, irrational , anti woman and is ridiculed as an obstacle standing in the way of progress. Where the ‘progressive’ West is shown to be the standard template to copy and follow. But meanwhile in the real West Hinduism is on the rapid rise. [...]

April 19, 2013 HHR Archives, HHR Videos, Spirituality/Culture 0
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