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Gwyneth Paltrow suggests "SIN-amon Rolls" to "Nourish the Inner Aspect"

To "nourish the inner aspect", Oscar winner Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love) suggests "SIN-amon Rolls" in the latest newsletter of her blog "GOOP-nourish the inner aspect".

Paltrow also wants us to bake "Eyeball Cupcakes", complete with irises, pupils and bloodshot veins and suggests these to be served in pairs. Talking about "SIN-amon Rolls" (besides eating) she points out: "You could wear these on your ears". As part of "nourish the inner aspect", she also discusses High Five cookies and Red Velvet Cake.

She discloses in this newsletter: "Currently, the plan is to keep baking...until the sugar wells run dry. And since that will never happen, the future is looking mighty bright."

Hindu statesman Rajan Zed has criticized Paltrow's blog for mostly being too materialistic and indulging in very mundane things and shallow substances dealing with temporal and external pleasures, and catering to "outer" while claiming to "nourish the inner aspect."

Zed, who is the president of the Universal Society of Hinduism, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that the idea of foraying into "inner aspect" was wonderful, but he did not comprehend why Paltrow wanted to market a product with an entirely different label. Although the tagline of GOOP is "nourish the inner aspect", there were not many deep spiritual and philosophical thoughts in it, which were essential part of "nourishing" the inner self. It was very "external", Zed added. He offered to help Paltrow, if asked.

Ancient Hindu scriptures Upanishads indicated that finite things could not calm an infinite thirst because the delight lied in the infinite. We could not fill the hollowness with outer materials. We should aim at uniting with Self, described as sat-chit-anand (absolute existence, pure consciousness, outright bliss), Rajan Zed pointed out interpreting the scriptures.

GOOP is said to be a name carved from 36-year old Gwyneth Kate Paltrow's initials, who is also sometimes known as "part yogini".