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Join the Krsna Balarama Youth Group for their weekly Friday Night Bhajan's session at 8 Newport Road, Parkwood, Gauteng at 6pm for a weekend kick-off of inspiration! Call Abi on 079 8816841 for more information.

The Hindu Co-ordinating Council and its affiliates will be hosting the Maha Shivarathri Yathra on Sunday 3rd March 2013.

The Divine Life Society of South Africa presents the Kumbh Mela in South Africa, 03 March 2013 at the Sivananda International Cultual Centre, Sivananda Nagar, La Mercy.

His Holiness Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji toured SA. Find out more about Healing through Meditation Music

The East Rand Raam Bhajan Group welcomes the public to their annual Raam Bhajan Prayer at the Sivan Alayam in Benoni. 2nd March, 2013m 18H30 till 12pm

150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, Special broadcasts on LotusFM and Hindvani. The Ramakrishna Mission is organizing various projects – for integrated child development, for the improvement of children’s health by eliminating malnutrition, for empowerment of women, and for alleviating poverty.

Hosted by ISKCON's renowned youth movement, The Krsna Balarama Youth Group, South Africa will have the presence of HH BB Govinda Maharaj, Gaura Vani and Jahnavi Harrison as the Knights of Kirtan as they shake up Johannesburg on the 12th and Durban on the 14th of December.

As a Ganapatya devotee, like other Hindu sects, one pays homage to your key deity by visiting His/Her earthly locations of appearances. Ganesha has 8 destinations of key importance. Some of these murtis are called Swayambhu effigies, or the self-existent in Sanskrit. This is to indicate that no human created these murtis, they were found completely formed by nature.

Naufal explains more about the devotion to Lord Ganapati. Very few understand the concept of the Ganapatya sect, where full devotion to Ganapati is prevalent. In this article, he defines the worship of Sri Ganapati and some of his personal journeys as a devotee to Lord Vinayagar in this first article.