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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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Mulāvidya

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Swami Harshananda

Mulāvidya literally means ‘universal or primeval ignorance or nescience’.

Some of the schools of Advaita Vedānta categorize avidyā or nescience into two types:

  1. Mula-avidyā - universal or primeval nescience. It is the material cause of the world.
  2. Tula-avidyā - individual nescience. It is the avidyā that covers consciousness circumscribed by particular objects, like the body.

Whether mulāvidyā is located in Brahman or in the jīva has been a moot point. The Vivaraṇa school of Pañcapādikā holds the former view whereas the Bhāmatī school sticks to the latter.


References[edit]

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

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