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Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children is now published after academic peer-review and available through open access.

In this book, we analyze the psycho-social consequences that Indian American children face after they are exposed to the school textbook discourse on Hinduism and ancient India. We show that there is an intimate connection―an almost exact correspondence―between James Mill’s ( a prominent politician in Britain and head of the British East India Company) colonial-racist discourse and the current school-textbook discourse. Consequently, this archaic and racist discourse, camouflaged under the cover of political correctness, produces in the Indian American children the same psychological impact as racism is known to produce: shame, inferiority, embarrassment, identity confusion, assimilation, and a phenomenon similar to racelessness where the children dissociate from the tradition and culture of their ancestors

This book is an outcome of 4 years of rigorous research as a part of our ongoing commitment at Hindupedia to challenge the representation of Hindu Dharma within Academia.

Brahmanirvāṇa

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Swami Harshananda

Brahmanirvāṇa literally means ‘getting merged in Brahman’.

The scriptures posit mokṣa or liberation from transmigratory existence as the ultimate goal of life. According to some Vedāntic works, this is attained when the jīva or the individual soul gets merged in Brahman or Paramātman, the Absolute or the Supreme Soul.

Nirvāṇa means getting extinguished like a burning lamp being blown out. When the little or the individual self (jīvātman) extinguishes itself into Brahman the Absolute, losing its separate identity and becoming merged in Brahman, it is brahmanirvāṅa. Another example that expresses the same idea is the merging of the rivers into the ocean. Brahmanirvāṇa or mokṣa can be attained through jñāna (knowledge) and bhakti (devotion). This word seems to be peculiar only to the Bhagavadgītā.[1]


References[edit]

  1. ↑ Bhagavadgītā 2.72; 5.24-26
  • The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore

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Krishna Maheshwari, Deval Sancheti

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