Naaree Women’s Group of New Zealand, a group to empower women are hosting Ganapati Mahotsav, A Family Event on Saturday 11th September 2021.at Mt Roskill War Memorial Hall May Road.

Hindu Youth New Zealand is proud to announce New Zealand’s first ever DharmaFest! An event that brings various Dharma based groups and spiritual organisations together to showcase the beautiful dimensions of Hindu/Dharmic culture, through food, clothing, art, crafts, knowledge systems like Yoga, Ayurveda, Meditation / Mindfulness, and the contribution of this diverse community to the wider New Zealand society.

Mt Eden’s Fickling Centre will provide the venue for a special interfaith concert this month, with performers and choirs from many of Auckland’s spiritual traditions participating. The evening program has the simple purpose of bringing together our diverse interfaith communities and musicians - from Sikh, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Bahai and Sufi faiths. The free admission public concert will highlight both the diversity of Auckland’s cultures and share the unique music of their rich traditions.

The yoga sutras are probably the greatest document on life and the most uninteresting book on the planet. Patanjali wrote it like this intentionally because the idea is that this is a formula to open up life.

In modern times, the human mind is increasingly seen as a source of torment rather than wonder. Unfortunately, a source of magic has turned into a mess, a miraculous instrument into a misery-manufacturing machine.

Each year, one of the HOTA Forum members becomes the Host, and leads and organizes this annual festival. That means, every organization has an opportunity to lead this community development project. This year, the Host is Hindu Council of New Zealand. Being the Silver Jubilee of Hindu Council of New Zealand, there is a great expectation from our community and general public for the festival to be grand and memorable one. Those who have attended and experienced Rotorua Deepawali Festival (between 2008 - 2012) organised by Hindu Council of New Zealand wanted a program of similar quality and standing in Auckland.

For most people, what they are seeking in prayer is not God but security and happiness. Their prayers are only about: “God give me this, give me that, God save me.” Ultimately, what they want with prayer is wellbeing, but they are not willing to admit it.

Health for Humanity Yogathon aims to reach 250,000 Surya Namaskars (Sun Salutations) this year. It will be held from 12 June to 26 June 2021 in several cities encouraging all New Zealanders to learn, participate and incorporate yoga in their daily lives. International Day of Yoga will also be celebrated during this period. In addition to surya namaskars, there will be yoga, meditation, mantra, bhakti, music, and talks from experts from all parts of New Zealand.

Gopal Bhatia is the name synonym with beautiful and soulful voice for most Indians in New Zealand. The ace singer accomplished yet another feat last week at Christchurch with a power packed performance at the La Vida centre on 15 March. This was Gopal’s third show in his ‘Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas’ series to pay tribute to the legendry Singer Kishore Kumar.

After further developing his craft in institutions like “Anupam Kher’s Actor Prepares Mumbai” and further artistic workshops, he has returned to Auckland recently. Agustya has been involved in multiple productions with “PRAYAS THEATRE COMPANTY” like Yatra, First World Problems 3.0, Dara he is now focusing on growing himself as a content creator posting dancing/acting related videos on YouTube & Instagram.

People think confidence is a kind of substitute for clarity – it is not. Let’s say whenever you want to make big decisions in your life, either professional or family-related, all you do is get yourself a coin and flip it, “Heads we will do this, tails we will do that.” It will work fifty percent of the time! If you are right only fifty percent of the time, there are only two professions you can pursue – you can either be a weatherman or an astrologer. If you are in any other job, you would most likely be fired.

‘Hanuman Janmotsava’ is among the biggest of Hindu festivals which is celebrated by Hanuman devotees with lot of devotion and fervour. Hanuman Janmotsava falls on the Chaitra Poornima day as per Hindu calendar.

If you have chosen to walk the spiritual path then you need to create a certain type of culture. Wherever there was genuine spiritual process, uncannily you will see, generally they developed a similar kind of culture everywhere in the world, unconnected. If there was a realized being anywhere and he spoke about how to be, you will see it is almost word by word, the same. But over a period of time, those things get distorted, and influenced by the local cultures and organized forms of religion.