Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children is now freely available.
Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children Book Cover.webp

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.


This book is the result of four years of rigorous research and academic peer-review, reflecting our ongoing commitment at Hindupedia to challenge the representation of Hindu Dharma within academia.

Talk:Sadhanacatusṭaya

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Swami Harshananda

sadhanacatusṭaya (‘fourfold spiritual discipline [of Vedānta]’)

Works on Advaita Vedānta prescribe a mode of sādhana (spiritual discipline) which has two stages. The first or the preliminary stage is called sādhanacatuṣṭaya, or the fourfold spiritual discipline. These disciplines are: Viveka (discrimination); vairāgya (renunciation); śamādiṣaṭka (the group of six, starting with śama or quietude) and mumuksutva (desire for mokṣa or liberation).

See under each title for details.


References[edit]

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

OLD CONTENT[edit]

Retrieved from "https://hindupedia.com/index.php?title=Talk:Sadhanacatusṭaya&oldid=57548"