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Ayurveda (आयुर्वेद; Āyurveda, "the knowledge for long life in Vedas"; or ayurvedic medicine is a Hindu system of traditional medicine native to India and a form of alternative medicine. The earliest literature on Indian medical practice appeared during the Vedic period in India, in Rigved.

Some other known written text are Suśruta Saṃhitā and the Charaka Saṃhitā, encyclopedias of medicine compiled from various sources from the mid-first millennium BCE to about 500 CE, and are among the foundational and formally compiled works of Ayurveda. Over the following centuries, ayurvedic practitioners developed a number of medicinal preparations and surgical procedures for the treatment of various ailments. Current practices derived (or reportedly derived) from Ayurvedic medicine are regarded as part of complementary and alternative medicine. (Full article...)

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April 11 Varuthini Ekadashi
April 14 Solar New Year, Mesha Sankranti
April 17, 2013 Bangalore bombing
April 18 Parashurama Jayanti, Akshaya Tritiya
April 22 Ganga Saptami
April 23 Sita Navami
April 25 Mohini Ekadashi
April 26 Gauna Mohini Ekadashi
April 28 Narasimha Jayanti
April 29 Vaishakha Purnima, Buddha Purnima
April 30 Narada Jayanti
Rama Navami (Hinduism)
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April 1253 – Nichiren, a Japanese monk, expounded Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the first time, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
April 1897 – The Ramakrishna Mission was founded by Swami Vivekananda to serve as the humanitarian counterpart to the Hindu monastic order Ramakrishna Math.

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Historic footage of George Harrison, the Beatle who pioneered the use of vedic mantras in Western recorded music, playing harmonium and leading a group in a Hare Krishna kirtan.

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Buddha.

~ Tokyo National Museum ~

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To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will drink the ocean”, says the persevering soul; “at my will mountains will crumble up”. Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal.

~ Swami Vivekananda ~

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