What really happened at the Eiffel Tower?
A fact-based look at the BAPS visit, the monks’ celibacy discipline, SETE’s staffing decisions, French law on equality & religious freedom. Facts before outrage.
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@tanitiwari16 Radha-Krishna &Shiva–Parvati being divine couples doesn’t cancel a sadhu’s vow of brahmacharya.A renunciate choosing distance from women isn’t hatred or ego it’s discipline.Comparing different spiritual paths to score a point only First learn the tradition, then lecture others.
@sadhavi Brahmacharya is not “fragile”—it is disciplined. A sadhu maintaining distance from women is a spiritual vow, not an insult to women. Visiting a public place doesn’t mean abandoning that vow. Understand the tradition before judging it. 🙏
@51Notes__ “Not Hindu” is not ur personal purity certificate to issue. Hinduism has always accommodated diverse sampradayas, philosophies and traditions. BAPS https://t.co/yMDoVpqmlp’t need ur permission to identify as Hindu—and neither do millions of practitioners.
@Krishna760046 બ્રહ્મચર્યને “સ્ત્રીવિરોધી નાટક” કહેવું તમારી અજ્ઞાનતા દર્શાવે છે. સાધુઓની મર્યાદા મહિલાઓને નીચી ગણવા માટે નથી. અને Eiffel Towerની એક ઘટનાને આખા સ્વામિનારાયણ સંપ્રદાય અને હિન્દુ ધર્મ સામે વાપરવું તો વધુ મોટી બૌદ્ધિક બેઈમાની છે. પહેલા તથ્યો સમજો, પછી ફતવા આપો. 🙏
@DeepsUtopia > Calling a Hindu tradition’s theology “dirty” doesn’t make it false. Debate the beliefs with original texts and context—not selective claims and outrage. Disagreement is not misinformation. 🙏
@srinipartha1 > Before calling it “dirty,” understand the theology you’re criticising. BAPS has a distinct theological framework about Bhagwan Swaminarayan’s supremacy;disagreement with that theology doesn’t make it an insult to other Hindu deities.
@nanditathhakur > That’s precisely the point: they didn’t ask women to leave the Eiffel Tower. The arrangements concerned the sadhus maintaining their religious maryada. Saying they “should have stayed away” simply because women were present is an unreasonable interpretation.
@UnSubtleDesi Don’t turn one disputed incident into a verdict on an entire Hindu tradition. BAPS sadhus follow lifelong maryada—that’s spiritual discipline, not hatred of women or rejection of Hinduism. Facts and context matter. 🙏
@paakhandslayer@Nigrahacharya > If you’re claiming BAPS “distorted” scriptures, then present the exact scripture, verse, original text, and credible scholarly evidence—not a YouTube clip and an allegation. Disagreement between traditions is not proof of distortion. Make the claim, provide the evidence.
@sirshikhar > Please get your facts right first. Salangpur Hanuman Mandir is not “a part of BAPS” in the way you are suggesting. Don’t use unrelated disputes or individuals to make claims about BAPS. Criticise based on facts, not assumptions.
@priyagupta999@BAPS Priya, first get the facts right. A sadhu visiting Paris and respectfully posing with folded hands is not worshipping the Eiffel Tower, nor is visiting France “disgracing India.” Criticism is fair; inventing a narrative is not. 🙏
@DrAyeshaRay Come visit a BAPS mandir and see for yourself how women’s activities, leadership and service are organised and conducted with dignity and respect. Understand the tradition before judging it.
BAPS - Paris - Eiffel Tower - Hindus 🕉️
Every time a Hindu institution makes headlines, the same machinery seems to switch on: selective reporting, sensationalism and the rush to construct an anti-Hindu narrative before all the facts are even established.
Hindus should not be expected to apologise for existing, succeeding or proudly practising their faith.
Hindu civilisation has revered the feminine as divine for thousands of years — Durga, Lakshmi, Saraswati, Kali and countless other manifestations of Shakti. We call our motherland Bharat Mata — Mother India.
Hindus are among the most hardworking, peaceful, entrepreneurial and progressive communities across the world.
So let’s do something very simple: show us the facts.
If wrongdoing has occurred, investigate it. If someone is responsible, hold them accountable.
But don't turn allegations into verdicts, or individual issues into an indictment of an entire faith and its institutions.
Hindus deserve facts, not manufactured narratives.
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@BAPS@BAPSParis@BAPS_PubAffairs #EiffelTower #BAPSParis
Unreal hate for BAPS over the Eiffel Tower controversy.
Their ascetics follow a strict vow of celibacy, which includes avoiding physical interaction with women. If arrangements were made to prevent even accidental contact, why is that being portrayed as hatred or contempt for women?
Respecting a religious vow is not the same as declaring women inferior.
BAPS Sadhus have their rules, they either don’t visit the places where females are and if they do, they request every female to temporarily leave. This is their age long tradition- Brahmcharya.
Same happened during Eiffel tower visit in France, if French were so volatile then they should have refused the visit.
So France can bend over backward for mullah, clarics or church but the moment Hindu visits them, their sentiments are hurt.
Haven’t seen this outrage on Muslims enforcing Sharia rules in pockets.
And what is this guilt tripping being done by Indian on this incident? Why do you become so sensitive that this will hurt Indians outside, like HOW?
You may differences with BAPS but this time, they’re well within their rights, they politely ask, THEY DO NOT PUT BULLET IN YOUR HEAD UNLIKE OTHERS.
Stop this guilt tripping, learn to take a stand.