{"id":1432,"date":"2001-12-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-12-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/12\/04\/2001-12-04-harrison-s-ashes-bound-for-india\/"},"modified":"2001-12-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-12-04T12:00:00","slug":"2001-12-04-harrison-s-ashes-bound-for-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/12\/04\/2001-12-04-harrison-s-ashes-bound-for-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrison&#8217;s Ashes Bound for India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/english\/world\/south_asia\/newsid_1689000\/1689027.stm\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>VARANASI, INDIA, December 3, 2001: George Harrison&#8217;s intimate relationship with Indian mysticism, music and Hinduism sent his wife and son on a pilgrimage to the holy Ganges river in India, where his ashes will be scattered. No report has appeared as to where or when Harrison&#8217;s widow, Olivia and his 23-year-old son, Dhani, were to arrive, but it is believed they will scatter Harrison&#8217;s ashes both at Varanasi and Allahabad, site of the recent Kumbha Mela. Harrison had his first contact with Hinduism in the sixties at the Himalayan retreat of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a Hindu spiritual guru. This discovery of Eastern mysticism eventually led him to his involvement with the Hare Krishna movement.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE VARANASI, INDIA, December 3, 2001: George Harrison&#8217;s intimate relationship with Indian mysticism, music and Hinduism sent his,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}