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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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By Swami Harshananda
Sukṣmadhyāna literally means ‘subtle contemplation’.
When the Kuṇdaliṇi is awakened, and joins the jīvātman,[1] it leaves the body through astral light through the portals of the eyes and the yogi is able to see his own subtle body.[2] The Gheranda Samhitā[3] describes this process.
