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https://www.alojapan.com/1537293/hindu-group-apologizes-as-eiffel-tower-visit-sparks-strike/ Hindu group apologizes as Eiffel Tower visit sparks strike #EiffelTower #France #Hinduism #India #paris #VisitJapan An influential Hindu group, which opened a new temple in Paris addressed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, apologized after a controversial visit to the Eiffel Tower prompted a staff strike that shut the landmark for a day. The apology follows allegations that female employees were asked to leave their workstations or stay

https://www.alojapan.com/1537293/hindu-group-apologizes-as-eiffel-tower-visit-sparks-strike/ Hindu group apologizes as Eiffel Tower visit sparks strike #EiffelTower #France #Hinduism #India #paris #VisitJapan An influential Hindu group, which opened a new temple in Paris addressed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, apologized after a controversial visit to the Eiffel Tower prompted a staff strike that shut the landmark for a day. The apology follows allegations that female employees were asked to leave their workstations or stay

My Final Hurrah!

Just published on Amazon my 20th book (I hope this will be my last book) “Summa Iru: My Formal Renunciation and Farewell to the World“. (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H87DDNRM)

Just a few hours back I published on Amazon another book “Advaita Vedanta through Name-and-Form Analysis”, which was written largely with the help of Claude. (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H84F82HS)

About the Book: “Summa Iru: My Formal Renunciation and Farewell to the World“

“It is time I ended the ignorance in myself.”

With these words, a writer, poet, and lifelong student of Advaita Vedanta announces his formal withdrawal from the world — effective July 16, 2026, his 62nd birthday. Not a retreat from failure, nor a flight from grief, but the logical terminus of a life spent reading, thinking, debating, and writing about one thing: the ending of ignorance, which is the ending of the seeker himself.

Summa Iru is the author’s twentieth and, by its own declaration, final book — a parting document composed in the months before silence. It gathers the last poems (“Without Her By My Side,” “The Me Time,” “I The Stranger,” “The Last Act”), the last aphorisms (“Even God disappears when you are silent”), and the last philosophical exchanges of a man tying up loose ends before going incommunicado.

Between the poems runs a sustained meditation in the tradition of Ramana Maharshi and the Ashtavakra Gita: Why does psychoanalysis fail where self-enquiry succeeds? Why is renouncing desires mere symptom-treatment while the disease of ignorance festers? What did Ramana mean when he said the future is already fixed — and that the best course is to remain silent? How does summa iru — “just be still” — dissolve the questioner along with the question?

The book also records something rarer: the texture of leave-taking itself. Letters declined. Friendships gently closed. A reply to a friend asking for a small favour: “Sorry dear, I have retired from all work and all relationships.” The ache of unrequited love examined without flinching and traced back to its root — the unworthiness we feel sitting alone with ourselves, forever seeking the other who will transport us away from our own insignificance.

Drawing on Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, the Ashtavakra Gita, J. Krishnamurti, Buber, Kant, Camus, and the ghazal tradition, this is comparative philosophy written not from the armchair but from the departure gate.

For readers of Advaita Vedanta, spiritual memoir, and contemplative poetry — and for anyone who has wondered what it would actually take to stop.

The author will not be available for comment. That is rather the point.

08 जुलाई 2026
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https://youtu.be/PYxF1WMwRzY

A 19th century Wood-Carved figure of #Ravana from #Bali #Indonesia now at British #Museum London

On #Dussehra today, the Victory of the Good over the Evil

#TheGoldenRoad #HappyDussehra #Ramayana

#IndianHeritage #IndianMythology #History #Art #ArtOfTheDay #MastoArt #Histodond #History #Heritage #IndianHistory #Religion #Hinduism #FestivalsOfIndia #ArtHistory #HinduismAbroad #Museums

c11th century Volcanic Stone sculpture of #Hindu God #Ganesha from #Java #Indonesia now on display at the "Ancient #India: Living Traditions" ongoing exhibition (22nd May-19th October 2025) at British #Museum London
Supported by Reliance Foundation and Reliance Industries Limited

#TheGoldenRoad

#IndianHeritage #artoftheday #Museums #IndianHistory #Art #HinduismAbroad #India #Religion #Hinduism #History #Heritage #Histodons #MastoArt #AncientIndia #India

Antefix with a Kneeling Guardian

10th century #Angkor period Reddish Sandstone statue from #Cambodia now at #TheMet (Metropolitan #Museum of #Art USA

Antefix is a vertical block which conceals the covering tiles of a tiled roof

(How grand the undisturbed complete complex would have looked!)

#TheGoldenRoad #HinduismAbroad #IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #Histodons #MastoArt #History #Heritage #ArtHistory #India #Hinduism #Buddhism #Religion

#Hindu Goddess Saraswati is a pan #India Goddess of Knowledge, Wealth, #Music, Flowing Water, #Art Speach, Wisdom & Learning and is worshipped in #Hinduism #Buddhism and #Jainism #Religion

In #Japan, She is known as #Benzaiten or #Benten, whose worship arrived there in the 6th century from #China & is depicted in this c1400 AD silk #Painting from Galerie Zacke, Austria

#IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #Paintings #Heritage#History #Artist #Histodons #MastoArt #HinduismAbroad #IndianMythology

An 9th century Andesite (Volcanic stone) Stele from #CentralJava #Indonesia of # Hindu Goddess #Durga #Mahisasuramardini (Slayer of Bull Demon Mahisha) subduing the Demon

Acquired by Don Christensen, 1966-1969, while stationed at US Embassy, #Jakarta & now on Bonhams sale for $20,000

#Hinduism arrived in #SouthEastAsia in the 7th century & continues to influence the cultures of many nations in the region

#Art #IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #Histodons #History #Heritage #HinduismAbroad

Panel fragment of #Hindu God #Shiva

3rd century CE #Kushan votive panel of Shiva (Oesho) along with hands of a missing worshipper from the ancient #Bactria region of #Gandhara #Afghanistan now #TheMet TheMetropolitan #Museum of #Art USA

The side holes suggests that this was attached to the wall of a temple or a domestic religious area

#IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #Heritage #History #Histodons #Hinduism #Religion #India #MastoArt #IndianCulture #HinduismAbroad #Museums

We all went to the #ISKONTemple near our home in #Rohini the day after #Janmashnami (#LordKrishna's Birthday).

It is amazing just how far along the construction has come since the last time we were here!

#India #Delhi #NewDelhi #ISKON #Krishna #Hinduism #Hindu #Family #Travel #TravelPhotography #Temple

The Flying #Hanuman
10th century Bronze Statue from Koh Ker #Khmer #Cambodia now at Cleveland Museum of #Art USA.

As per #HinduMythology Lord #Rama gets Injured in Battle with #Ravana, King of #SriLanka
Hanuman is Deputed to Fetch the Life-saving Herb 'Sanjeevani' from #Himalayas which he Carries Back in his Right Hand, as Shown here & Raising the other Hand in a Gesture Meaning 'Fear Not'.

#HinduismAbroad #Hindu #Mythology #AncientIndia #Religion #Hinduism #India #Heritage #IndianHeritage

c1000 AD statue of #Krishna Riding #Garuda from #Java #Indonesia now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, #USA

According to the #HinduMythology Lord #Krishna was an #Avatar of God #Vishnu who here, not only Borrowed Vishnu's Mount (Garuda) but also Holds His War Discus.
Garuda, as per #Mahabharata Identifies Him as the Younger Brother of Aruna, the Charioteer of the Sun-God #Surya

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