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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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Yogaśayanamurti

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Swami Harshananda

Yogaśayanamurti is one of the aspects of Viṣṇu shown as recumbent on Śeṣa or Adiśeṣa as the couch. He is pale blue or blue with a yellowish tinge. He has two arms. He is blissfully absorbed in yoganidrā or yogic slumber. He may be shown as surrounded by the sages Bhṛgu and Mārkaṇḍeya and also the āyudhas or weapons as personified deities like:

  1. Śaṅkha - conch
  2. Cakra - discus
  3. Gadā - mace

The two demons named Madhu and Kaiṭabha are also present.


References[edit]

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

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