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In this book, we analyze the psycho-social consequences faced by Indian American children after exposure to the school textbook discourse on Hinduism and ancient India. We demonstrate that there is an intimate connection—an almost exact correspondence—between James Mill’s colonial-racist discourse (Mill was the head of the British East India Company) and the current school textbook discourse. This racist discourse, camouflaged under the cover of political correctness, produces the same psychological impacts on Indian American children that racism typically causes: shame, inferiority, embarrassment, identity confusion, assimilation, and a phenomenon akin to racelessness, where children dissociate from the traditions and culture of their ancestors.


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Kāraṇaśarira

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Swami Harshananda

Kāraṇaśarira literally means ‘causal body’.

Vedanta, the Brahmasutras and some other scriptures state that every jīva or individual soul has three śarīras or bodies. They are:

  1. Sthula - gross
  2. Suksma - subtle
  3. Kāraṇa - causal

The kāraṇaśarira or causal body is nothing but ajñāna or ignorance. This is the root-cause of embodiment. It leads to transmigration of the atma.


References[edit]

  • The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore

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Krishna Maheshwari, Deval Sancheti

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