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Will sex save a marriage? or, is sexuality a cause for divorce? The answer is no..... and maybe yes. But is this the real question? Does sex assure a lasting, stable, happy marriage? This is a complex issue. In the non devotional world, where sex is the norm, the divorce rate, in many nations, is around 50%. So from that angle, the answer is no, sex does not assure one a successful marriage. And within ISKCON, where sex is discouraged, some estimate divorce rates are even higher. So, that begs a much larger question. We are part of the Grihasta Vision Team, which offers marriage counseling and workshops for ISKCON devotees. While writing on the subject of intimacy for a Grihastha Vision Team book recently, our attention was caught by research done in the United Kingdom, on reasons for divorce.  The major reason cited was “growing apart”. Growing apart now trumps extramarital affairs as the No. 1 cause of divorce in the U.K., according to a survey of divorce lawyers. Si...

. 09-10-17, Nl.    As a Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi appears doing little to prevent the ethnic conflict in Myanmar . Over a similar type of ethnic cleansing in Bhutan earlier, an eminent minister, Om Pradhan could intervene and prevented the cataclysm. Minister Om Pradhan . foto: dhi.bt The Buddhist states of Myanmar and Bhutan are both ruled by parsimonious authoritarians. Both populations have two distinctive religious ethnic groups. Buddhists form the majority elites. Bhutan has a Hindu minority and Burma a Muslim minority. The Buddhist regimes in both these nations have been taking strategically ethnic cleansing measures. Neither the world powers nor the United Nations could significantly prevent this. In the global theatre at that time, the gravity of the ethnic cleansing in Bhutan did not attract much attention. In the case of Myanmar , a comparison reveals to be quite gruesome, due to the rate of expulsion of the Muslim population. The ...

A discussion with the Dutch over trade and commerce is the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s priority, but in the minds of Dutch politicians, the visit of Mr. Modi to The Netherlands led to questions about human rights and religious freedom, rather than to issues like trade co-operation or commercial entrepreneurship. This has a lot to do with the Mr. Modi’s political party, the BJP – under the cliché of ‘radical Hinduism’. After about 13 years the prime minister of India is visiting The Netherlands. This time, on the 27th June, Mr. Narendra Modi will meet the Dutch Royal family, prime minister Mark Rutte (along with the secretary for Foreign Affairs Bert Koenders) and a group of Dutch CEO’s. ‘Not everyone is enthusiastic about the policy of prime minister Modi and his Nationalistic Radical Hinduistic Party – BJP. Yet there is business to be done’, aired the Dutch National Radio NPO1 in the morning. Adding to this cliche, Mr. Peter van Dale, delegate for the Christ...

A q uestion over happiness: Prabhupada told us to “Chant Hare Krishna and Be Happy”. I have been chanting the maha mantra since two years and I am following the rules and regulations but I am still very unhappy. I guess that there is a problem somewhere with me. My life is a mess. Krishna gives me too many tests which I can’t handle. I have been struggling with my spiritual life and I am tired now. I am helpless. I was engaged with a devotee for 1 year and we were planning to get married after our studies. Recently, his Guru Maharaj told him that, being so young (he is 21 and I am 18), he should remain brahmacari for the time being. So he has left me. I know that his Guru is pure and is directly guided by Krishna and his decision is most appropriate but being such a fallen human being, I am suffering a lot because being engaged for me was very important as it stabilized my mind. I am trying my best but I am unable to forget him and to get over it. Please tell   me what ...

23-3-17.   It is a great step forward to animal welfare and world peace at large that h ighly esteemed Buddhist head of abbot, the Dalai Lama of Tibet is coming closer to  Krishna consciousness . Dalai Lama with Indradymna Maharaj in Vrindavan His Holiness Dalai Lama presiding over the Tibetan government in exile in India visiting Vrindavan yesterday may not be a new anecdote but his hankering for the association of the pure devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krishna and offer obeisance is remarkably a spiritual advancement that would go further from the Buddhist understanding of salvation as ‘ending up in zero or emptiness,  sunyata’  to the attainment of servitorship of the Lord Krishna personally, which is indeed more valuably pursued than the pursuit of the liberation,  mukti . According to the Vedic view point Buddhism is not a religion, in the sense that the Vedas guides its staunch followers attain its Supreme profounder, the ...

Where the word ‘Happiness’ is much outspoken and advertised, there in Bhutan, World Happiness Report 2017 reflect no happiness.   21 March 17. Nederland. Summing the key factors to happiness, this year’s World Happiness Report disclosed that; people in those countries who could trust their governments and business establishments and find themselves free to make decisions for their life without any anxiety, and could say that they are having good social support are the happiest people in the world. Map showing forced migration of Bhutanese refugees from the camps in Nepal. Foto UNHCR Emphasizing the importance of such social foundations of happiness a group of independent experts dedicated on the auspices of the UN’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network surveyed people in 156 countries and found Norway the happiest country in the World. 30 th March each year is observed as the International Day of Happiness proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in June 2012. ...

5 Jan 2017 . More than one in 10 children experience at least one incident of sexual violence, a study on violence against children in Bhutan has found. The report produced by the National Commission for Women and Children (NCWC), the government and UNICEF Bhutan in May 2016 stated that while the prevalence of sexual violence among children was 12.8 percent, it is more prevalent among girls at 13.5 percent compared to 11.9 percent for boys. It stated that children reported that they experienced sexual violence at a young age, with about five percent reporting that sexual violence occurred before they turned 13. “About 7.3 percent had experienced it between ages 13 to 17 years,” the report stated. It is also stated that children who reported sexual violence said it occurred at school and in homes. While 7.7 percent of the children reported that it occurred in school, 2.3 percent reported that it occurred at home. The report also stated that sexual violence occurred more in ...