religion, and then hindu mode. so, if we could, just a very short roll-in on lolita at the vishnu temple in vermont. were your parents christian, or did you come from... >> my parents are christian, yes. >> do they have anything to say about the fact that you've become a hindu? >> my father passed away before he knew. my mother, in the beginning, was upset, okay? and i think it was the fear that she felt that i was going to be taken away or brainwashed, or taken away from god. and i explained to her, god, there's only one - i love god, i respect jesus, he's god too. but i feel that hinduism has answered all the questions that i've had, as opposed to christianity that has not answered all my questions. >> well, we've been talking in our class about religious experience. is there a way that you might define the spiritual aspect, the spiritual experience when say you're in meditation or in prayer, something of that sort? >> the spiritual experience that you encounter is just of pure love and pure bliss. and then, that

yes. >> i thought the 1, 2, 3, 4 pattern. >> good. >> that's counting in hindu. you know how to count to 4. see. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. >> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. >> pause. >> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. >> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. pause. >> that's a rhythmic pattern that repeats itself 3 times about did you know we are doing multicasion and dividing up here? you didn't. so, this music we are dancing on is rhythmicly complicated the underline rhythmic does not go in a straight line. it goes if a cycle beginning on 1 and ending on 1. we are dancing on a 16 beat cycle. you can count to 16. why don't you keep the cycle and we will put a high on top of that. count with one and you can clap. 13, 14, 15, 16, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, >> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. >> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. >> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. >> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. >> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. did you know what you just did? >> you divided 16 into 3 equal parts. i bet you didn't think that was possible i know a physicist that didn't think it was possible. we are rocket scientists. half of you count 16, half do the t high. you can do it. first you try the 16. don't do the t hi

in the conversation with gandhi you have a sense of thurman respecting ghandi is as a hindu. not making excuses that gandhi is somehow an honorary christian and doesn't know it as many christians do in trying to reconcile gandhi's ethics with the fact that they had such a deep appreciation of him. thurman saw in ghandi that which was transformative because gandhi was a disciple of truth. i truly believe if we are serious in studying thurman, one of the insights for us in this 21st century will be ways in which we can engage pluralism with celebration rather than trepidation. he said perhaps the only hope for the world, for community, is religion. which seems odd in light of the fact we know how religious people can go at one another, but i think what he was leading us to is the oneness that can be found in religion, that transcends the political and the social and the personal rhetoric that divides. i think there is a key for us and it's worth the interfaith journey. >> third and definitely not last is dr. preston king. dr. king was born in albany georgia and earned his bache

of success. >> reporter: i'm kim lawton in washington. >>> on our calendar this week, on monday, hindus celebrate maha sivaratri, which honors their deity lord shiva. and, celebrations are under way around the world for carnivale, the festive time that precedes lent, the 40-day somber period of prayer and fasting before easter. for western christians lent begins wednesday -- ash wednesday. finally, we remember pulitzer-prize winning "new york times" reporter anthony shadid, who died this week after suffering an asthma attack while he was covering the crisis in syria. in his middle east reporting, shadid frequently explored the role of religion. we spoke with him in 2005, as iraq was voting on a new constitution. >> religion in itself is one message. the interpretation of that religion is another thing, and i've seen, just as a reporter in the middle east over the past decade, that islam is very pliable in that sense. it's very flexible, and it can be adapted very easily to local movements, local demands, local fights and wars. i think we see it in palestine, i think we see it in lebanon

. >> pitts: the bavikatte wedding was a hindu ceremony, the religion for 80% of indians.em and all around them, a powerful symbol of purity and eternity that hindus elevate to the status of a goddess. they call her lakshmi. every fall, there's a religious holiday, one day when hindus worship lakshmi by shopping for gold. >> chauhan: that day, if you buy gold, it's considered to bring you prosperity, good luck, health, wealth, everything. if you buy gold a day before, you get nothing. you buy gold a day after, you get nothing. ( laughter ) >> pitts: so you don't just buy it, you buy it on a particular... >> chauhan: day. >> pitts: and that's the way it is. >> chauhan: yes. >> pitts: don't question that. >> chauhan: we have never questioned it. we just know, if you buy gold today, it'll bring you prosperity. goddess lakshmi will... will visit your house. so, hey, let's do it. who doesn't want to be prosperous? >> pitts: india's love affair with gold started in ancient ports like vizhinjam. for centuries, traders from the empires of europe, asia and the middle east landed he

the enemy is muslim, christian, atheist, hindu, jew. he is our collective face, our evolution, the devolution, the ripening of long injustices. thank you. the next poet is michael palmer. >> what of that wolf hound at full stride. what of the woman that serves as fairl guide and witness to the snowy hive? what of the singer robed in red and frozen at mid-song? and the stone, its brokenness, or the voice oft seen that says note the dragon seen but asking no questions of flight, no questions of irridescence, what of that century, did you see it pass? what of that wolf hound at your back? and then a poem that is for mahmud darlish called the dream of narcissus. the dream of narcissus, that there would be a silence loud as time. the dream of the writer that there could be a silence loud as time, the dream of time that rest might come, the dream of rest, that unrest might arise. the dream of the palm, the pilgrims would enter the village. the dream of the village, that they depart with their palms and the house dreaming of his leveling and t

dancers show the hindu aspect of the dance by using the positions of our hands we will show you we are decorating the stage and make a water picture and cleaning the stage with the water. plucking flowers and decorating the stage with the petals of the flowers. we will awaken the 5 senses through the blowing of a conch shell. we will demonstrate the 3 duty, creator, producer and the destroyer in order to make way for new creation. [music] [applause] good morning. afternoon, actually. so, as you can see this is an elaborate dance form and has many hand movements which have a specific meaning. in the piece we are about to show you and share with you we will actually pi lly teach you d movements. this means to tell a story. in old times they would travel and tell the stores about the events of the timeses. i need you all to stand up to learn these. excellent. take a stretch. lift our arms up high to the sky. we will start by creating trees. we will turn our arms into tree branches. our finger tips into leaves and we will sway in the breeze. when the wind picks up we will sway faster. we w

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. >>> malaysia's community has been gearing up for one of the most important days in the hindu calendar. the festival. on the day, they parade through the streets of kuala lumpur. they smashed coconuts, symbolizing the defeat of the ego. flowers and incense was offered. some people climbed the 272 steps to the temple in the caves in the area to fulfill their vows. >>> i had to open up my umbrella this morning and that cold snap we were having in tokyo has given way to a warm spell. sayaka mori has the latest weather picture. >> welcome back to the weather update. let's begin with japan. a lot of clouds are covering much of the nation. underneath them are heavy amounts of precipitation blankets much of japan. particularly right along the pacific side. thunderstorms, gusting winds and high waves will accompany the torrential rain. as for the back side of the nation, the precipitation is rain rather than snow because temperatures are on the rise. from tonight, colder air will flow in. that will bring another round of heavy snow as well as windy conditions. as for the korean peninsula, snow

with jews and christians and hindus and for me that was the way the world was. finally it came time to come back to america. i was in high school and really looking forward to coming back to a place whether i heard about fourth of jewels lies anulies . i got beat up. they said you're not from america. it wasn't in africa that i learned about racism but here in united states. we were completely broke and i did something real unpopular at the time. four days after high school i joind the united states army. not only to serve my country but to get the,gi bill to continue my education. then i saw young men and women from all across america. from farms and ranches and it matedm made me realize the strength in this country is not from commonality but our great diversity. i had a younger sister named gift of god and christa was a special girl because she suffered from severe epilepsy. she never once complained. she never said across word and it could or would take her an hour or two to line um... up her clothes and do our homework and get her lunch b bag ready. i'm the

. >> i think when he said that he was thinking of gandhi not as a hindu. he was thinking of gandhi as a moral human being. you have to deal with that socratic element in martin. there is obviously the attraction toward gandhi, you know, in terms of what he had achieved and the spiritual strength that enabled that achievement. it's important but also implicit in martin and there is appreciation of this movement in human terms that far transcended the case. >> i would guess mays, thurman and king all felt gandhi would be in paradise. that he didn't have to do anything else to be saved to get into paradise. which means they are looking at -- >> it's the same sort of thing. >> i think so. i think your comment on ethics is right on. because, for maze, god has to be an ethical force in the world and, you know, you've got to look at the 20th century. great moment in the 20th century is 1917, the russian revolution. and will the world go into a violent revolution such as russia was and a civil war or is there another methodology? and one of the things i was struck

dancers show the hindu aspect of the dance by using the positions of our hands we will show you we are decorating the stage and make a water picture and cleaning the stage with the water. plucking flowers and decorating the stage with the petals of the flowers. we will awaken the 5 senses through the blowing of a conch shell. we will demonstrate the 3 duty, creator, producer and the destroyer in order to make way for new creation. [music]

. >> i think when he said that he was thinking of gandhi not as a hindu. though obviously he was. he was thinking of gandhi as a moral human being. that's where you have to defer to that socratic element in martin. there is obviously the attraction toward gandhi, you know, in terms of what he had achieved and the spiritual strength that enabled that achievement. it's terribly important. but also implicit in martin and there is appreciation of this movement in human terms that far transcended the indian case.

dancers show the hindu aspect of the dance by using the positions of our hands we will show you we are decorating the stage and make a water picture and cleaning the stage

. >> they say this is the first hindu temple in the united states -- in fact in the whole western world. the first temple for america and originally a two story building and we have a permit from 1,907 to add the third story and the third story turned it into this temple and each of these has deep significance in the hundredue culture and religion. one of the things that is amazing all of the different architectural styles and pieced together and the different things and the queen anne and colonial and all different styles pushed together. this is webster at filbert street in the marina. around san francisco odd buildings abound and this thing is in somebody's backyard and all over we see the incremental development and they have a porch and rail and walls up and here we have in somebody's backyard a fence that has become a wall and now fully occupied. >> it's a green house. >> and next year living quarters and pretty soon a manufacturing facility. lam bar lombard strd this building has contentious past and the owners want to lift it up and put a story underneath and the reason they wan

hindus, muslims, jews, they make up about 7% of the religion. >> muslims? >> about 1%. >> and mormons? >> mormons are somewhere between 1 and 2% as well. >> now, part of your study was, discomfort with mormon serves as president and what you have here, and this was done in september 2011, all voters, 42%, had a discomfort level with a mormonist president. black protestant had the highest discomfort level. 62% unaffiliated, 47% catholic, 42% level of discomfort. white mainline, 30%. interestingly, it was the younger generation that had the highest discomfort level with the mormon being president and democrats at 50%, republicans, 36, tea party, 30, and then women more than men, 45 to 30. >> right. >> what's going on? talk to us about this? >> there's actually two things going on with those numbers. one thing is partisanship. when we ask about a mormon president, everybody has one person in mind and that is mitt romney. what we're seeing is that number among democrats, for example, it's so high and really towards a republican president. and the other kind of

i witnessed extraordinary courage and skill in the young soldiers just off patrol of the hindu kush. and the men and women, managing the development of the afghan national security forces. the brave and vigilantmenturn c superb junior airmen that flew us to the right place at the right mptify a professional military with a remarkable and reliable record of performance. in just the past year, we further crippled al qaeda. we helped to protect the libya people from near-certain slaughter and affirming nato's important role beyond the borders of europe. we brought to a close more than 20 years of military operations in and over iraq. and like we did in iraq, we're steadily transitioning responsibility for security on to afghan's shoulders and we helped ja pab recover from a perfect storm of tragedy and destruction. and, of course, these were the most visual accomplishments. behind the scenes and beneath the surface we defended against cyberthreats. we sustained our national's nuclear deterrent position sure and worked with allies and partners to build capacity and to prevent conflict ac

it translates better in hindu. >> it does sound a little selfish and crude.ething and something i like particularly like george who was the prime minister during the first world war in england who said general, can you use this in any speech. it works fabulous. you can have it all for yourself. it is dangerous to leap a chasm in two bounds. i like what one of the great actors in the theater howard said and he was lucky because he enjoyed his work. he said work is no fun than fun which if you like work, it's true. if you're putting wheels on an automobile in a factory line, i don't think that's true. and, of course, there was shaw and wilde. how about twain? i like mark twain. if you tell people you're an early riser, you can sleep till noon. >> right. >> that has worked very well for me, by the way. >> the reports of my death are largely exaggerated by w.c. fields. >> keep going. >> w.c. fields came up with a lot of great ones including ones that sounded perfectly all right until you looked at them and they got past the censor. og ogleby, sounds like a bubble

i know a version of that golden rule is found in every major religion and beliefs from hindu to islam to judaism and the writings of plato. when i talk about shared responsibility, it's because i genuinely believe in a time when many folks are struggling and a time when we have enormous deficits, it is hard for me to ask seniors on a fixed income or young people with student loans or middle class families who can barely pay the bills to shoulder the burden alone. and i think to myself, if i'm willing to give something up as

engines that have since failed because google can now not only to do through the language search or hindu but can take you through a really effective surge in the language of commerce which is english so the growth has been tremendous. the two places that google hasn't been able to grow is russia in the people's republic of china and it's not so strong in japan or south korea for different reasons. in south korea the government helped investor early on in a search engine that specialized in the search to get every language is a different challenge because the syntax is different in every language so doing these relations among the words and terms is a complicated thing and google does well in english despite having one of its founders born in russia it's not that good in acrylic apparently and within russia there is a strong sense of nationalism so the homegrown search engines and russia are much more powerful and popular than google even though there's little web censorship. in the china of course you have the explicit web censorship and a huge relationship between google and people's re

and yet the ensuing months brought with it mass riots over partition, the deaths of millions of hindus and muslims. five months after freedom, the father of the nation, gandhi, was assassinated. in indonesia in the 1990s, a year after he fell, b.j. habibi became president amidst economic collapse and rising islamic radicalism. his presidency lasted exactly 17 months. now, we remember the eastern european revolutions of 1989. but those are really the exceptions that prove a much more messy rule. the process of becoming democratic has always been chaotic. mistakes are made. lives are lost. and in the most dire moments, people have always doubted that there would be a good outcome. we need to keep that in mind when we assess the arab spring. democracy might be messy. it's certainly complicated. it takes a while to consolidate. but for the first time in perhaps a millennium, the arab people are taking charge of their own affairs. so let's cut them some slack. it's only been a year. and we'll be right back. >>> up next, a fascinating world view from the east. my interview with singapore's p

. >> mitt romney changings his positions more times than a hin d hindu god. >> they all lie. >> was itf. i don't want to get into it. >> which one would you like? >> mitt romney for kosher food for our seniors and nursing homes. >> i'm in this race because i care about americans. i'm not concerned about the very poor. i misspoke. i wish i wouldn't have said it that way. >> let's get right to it with our panel this friday afternoon. goldie taylor. what a week it's been. i suppose the best place to start is with mitt. he gives beating to newt in florida, collects an endorsement from the donald. i guess this week is going to be defined for mitt by his appalling singing voice and his views on the poor. >> well, i think so. the way mitt romney sounds, i don't want to be anywhere near his fruited plain. i think this week has been a really good one for him in terms of winning florida. some of the missteps he's made, he's not going to be able to continue to make them as we head through february and into super tuesday. newt is going to stay in this race. he's going to fight hard. he's going to

combat a part of you dies that part of me died my first day i was there and it will be out there in the hindush mountains probably for the rest of my life. >> you must sit back and watch the news a little differently from some other people, when you see say the koran burning or you see the tensions sort of heating up, again, what is your feeling about the u.s. relationship with afghanistan and pakistan as we speak today? >> well, i can tell you, that in my time in afghanistan my soldiers every mission we went on was a humanitarian mission in addition to combat patrol we made it our business to protect, support and feed local national afghans, we took pride in that mission never once did i see a u.s. soldier disrespect the islamic faith or desecrate the koran and we fought, bled and died next to afghans and we have been doing it for the better part of 10 years. so, it frustrates me a little bit to see the afghan sort question our commitment and intentions to say the least. >> cap tan shawn parnell retired war veteran author of outlaw platoon it is out there today, compelling story about life o

people claimed to be attacking the rich and by the rich they met the guy -- often an immigrant guy, hinduor muslim who gets up in the morning and goes to work and opens the corner store and stand there at 6:00 in the morning and works that store until 9:00 in the evening. these guys trashed those stores and rampaged through them and they didn't mean -- when they said they were, quote, the rich they didn't mean they were rich. they're not rich in a warren buffett cents. what they meant is they got up and went to work in a way that these people rising in the street had no need to. they were children of dependence were marinated in dependency all their lives. dignity is implicitly connected with somebody supporting themselves -- doing their job, findings so forth in that job, building a home, supporting their family. that is where dignity a rises and what is horrible about big government is not that it debauches the nation's finances but ultimately it corrodes the soul of the people. that is whatever other conservatives may say i am not about the money. i wouldn't want these programs if bill

occupiers and visitors alike contributed a myriad of objects to the altar, stage, flowers, candles, hindu deities, decorations, peace signs, crucifixes, groceries, rose petals, stones, feathers, shells, crystals, incense, figurines, photos of spiritual teachers, signs and robert. in the daily life of occupy wall street it offered a refuge from crowds and chaos a place for occupiers to pause and reflect on their priorities. the benches also provided a place for people to sit in occupy -- brandon created a facebook page for chile. on his page the tree just described is a community altar and sacred space dedicated to unifying the 100%. occupy yoga added a a search is assemble a real touchdown for those that believe in something greater than themselves. in that way it was the perfect spiritual centerpiece for the occupy movement and a material representation of awareness. one or two weddings were conducted at the tree of life. the beauty of the tree of life says charlie gonzalez is that it is the concept that is not from one religion or dogma but it is prevalent in all traditions and even sci

so, hindus traditionally believed it's, that the universe will balance itself, right itself. it's like gravi. if i am lazy, good-for-nothing lying scoundrel, the universe will right that and i will suffer. but then along comes liberal do-gooders and the federal government to bail them out. so i think the conservative view, for social conservatives this is, is that basically liberals are trying to revoke the law of karma. almost as though, imagine somebody trying to revoke the law of gravity, and everything's going to float away into chaos. >> all right, let's go back to occupy wall street and the tea party. >> flags are everywhere. american flags are everywhere at the tea party. and you never see them defaced, modified, touching the ground. at occupy wall street, however, the majority of them had been modified. so here's one showing america as a nation taken over by corporations and war. here's another one, "occupy wall street, the 99 percent is you." now, what this shows, i think, is that at occupy wall street, certainly 'the flag is not sacred, i think america is not sacred