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The Pr~blem w ,i th' Taking
It Out On the Children
Corporal punishment defeats its own purpose, causing
harm th~t is difficult to forgive . .. but forgive we must
B Y, SAT G U R U S I V A Y A SUB RAM U N I Y A S W A M I
HE WHOLE WORLD IS REEVALUATING
HOW we treat women, children, the aged
and infIrm. Ways of behaving toward our
fellow human beings that were normal and
acceptable one hundred years ago are no longer
acceptable. We now comprehend, as never be-
fore, the tragedy of a battered wife or an abused
or neglected infant. Shamefully, we do not always
live up to the Hindu ideal in these areas.
What is that ideal? It is this: Never injure oth-
ers. Hindu children are always treated with great
respect and awe, for one does not always know
who they are. They may be incarnations of a
grandmother, grandfather, aunt or uncle, dearly bel0ved mother,
sister, brother, respected father, a yogi or rishi returned to flesh to
help humankind spiritually. As parents and teachers, we must ask,
"Who are these' souls? What is their destiny to fulfill in this life?
How can I help?" Parents love their children, or at least they
should, and the principles of ahimsa-nonviolence and nonhurtful-
ness, physically, mentally or emotionally-do apply in the parent-
child relationship, as well as in the husband-wife relationship.
Children must be allowed to develop physically, emotionally and
mentally without being hurt in the process. Even profeSSional dog
trainers know the importance of bonding with their dog, through
kindness and affection, and the folly of abuse or neglect.
W~ know children are sometimes mischievous and can gElt on
ones'Ilerves, but religious parents and worthy teachers are, in
truth, more mature than the children and are able to handle situa-
tions as they come up without recourse to pinching or hitting.
Only in this way can we bring children from one stage of physical,
emotional, mental growth to another and still nurture spiritual
qualities. To hurt a child in any way is to drive that child into fear
and cause the development of anger and resentment at an early
age. Bhakti, love of God and cpmpassion for all, will awaken in
such a person only with great effort. ·Parents are supposed to lift
their offspring into the higher n~ture of love, forgiveness, friendli-
ness and security, not drive them into the lower nature of hate,
mistrust, resentment, offishness and insecurity. Obedience through
fear is not a desirable obedience. Conformity through threats does
not build a loving family or a strong society. To anger a child at an
early age is to place him on the path of retribution toward others
later in life. Striking or pinching a child may seem expedient in the
confusion of the moment. It may provide a short-term solution. But
never forget the long-term price that we pay.
I have been asked, "Should parents never spank a child?"
"Should teachers use corporal punishment?" Of course, one should
10 HINDUISM TODAY JULY, Igg8
never spank or beat
children, ever. Those
who are physically pun-
ished are taught to later
punish their children.
'ifhis is a vicious cycle
that can only be broken
by the child's later, as an
adult, facing and forgiv-
ing the way he was mis-
treated and vowing to
not do the same to his
children.
The wife-husband relationship is
where it all begins. The mother and
father are karmically responsible for the
tenor of society that follows them. An
ahimsa couple produces the protectors
of the race. Himsa, hurtful, couples pro-
duce the destroyers of the race. They
are a shame upon humanity. It's as sim-
ple as that. Its also so crucial that it
needs to be said more than once, "Him-
sa, hurtfui, couples produce the destroy-
ers of the ra£e. They are a shame upon
humanity." The beating of a child is a
kind of psychological murder, killing
creativity, killing love and trust, and
awakening fear. A five-foot-ten-inch
adult beating on a tiny child-what cow-
ardliness. What cowardliness! Yet anoth-
er kind of cowardliness belongs to those
who stand by, doing nothing to stop
known instances of harm and injury in
their.community. Such crimes, even if
the law dq,es not punish, earn a lifetime
imprisonment in the criminal's own karma, because they always
know that they watched or knew and said nothing. Beating a child I
destroys his or her faith. It destroys faith in humanity and there-
fore in religion and in God. If he is beaten by his father and moth-
er, his first gurus, who is he going to trust throughout his whole
life? Certainly not another guru or swami, no matter how spiritual.
Beautiful children who see their father beating their mother or
their mother scratching their father's body after she emotionally
destroyed his manhood by insinuations, threats and tongue lashing
have at those very moments been given permission to do the same.
discipline youths by caning, slapping, ttVisting ears and hitting
then1 tVith books, tVrongly thinking this builds good'character
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. to do the same in their own life when they are older. They become
Of course, we can excuse all of this as being simply karma-the
karma of the parents as taught by their parents and the karma of
the children born into the family who abuses them. But the divine
law of karma cannot be used as permission or an opportunity to
be hurtful. Simply speaking, if hurtfulness has been done to you,
this does not give you permission to perform the same act upon
another. It is dharma that controls karma. It is not the other way
around.
Those beautiful children who see their mother and father 'work-
ing out their differences in mature discussion or in the shrine
Teachers'techniques: Scenes fronlschoolrooms, tVhereteachers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .
room through ,prayer and meditation are at that moment inspired
the elite of society, the pillars of strength to the community during
times of stress and hardship. These children' when older will surely
uphold the principles of dharma and will not succumb to the
temptations of the lower mind.
The flower penance: Those who have been physically abused are
as much in need of penance to mitigate the experience as are those
who ,abused them. The penance, or prayashchitta, for abusees is
called the flower penance, or pushpa prayashchitta. It has been suc-
cessfully performed by many children and adults to mitigate the
hate, fear, resentment and the dislike toward tHe parents, teachers
or other adults who beat Ylem, by hitting, pinching, slapping, can-
ing, spanking or other methods of corporal punishment. This pen-
ance is very simple to perform, but often very difficult to carry out.
Each person-child or adult- who has been beaten at any time,
no matter how long ago, is enjOined to put up in the shrine room a
picture of the person or persons by whom they were beaten, be it a
father, mother or teacher. Then, every day for thirty-one consecu-
tive days, without missing a single day, he or she must place a flower
/
in front of each pieture, and sincerely forgive the person in heart
and mind. If no picture is available then some symbol or possession
can be substituted, or even a paper with their name written on it.
When it becomes difficult to offer the flower of forgiveness be-
cause hurtful memories come up from the subconscious mind, the
individual must perform the vasana daha tantra, writing down the
hurtful memories and burning the paper in a trash can. This tantra
releases the deep emotions within the individual who fmds that he
or she does not like or deeply resents the parent or other relative,
school teacher or principal. After writing about these experiences,
expressing in words the emotions felt, on many pieces of paper, the
area of fhe subconscious mind holding the suppressed anger and re-
sentment gradually disappears as the papers are seen burning to
ashes in a garbage can.
Upon recognizing and admitting their fear Of hatred of their
abuser, they must deal with the pangs of pain that arise each day by
mystically turning the slap, beating or spanking into a beautiful flow
of prana by placing a flower before the picture with a heart full of
love. Each day while performing the "flowers of forgiveness
prayashchitta," the individual should mentally approach thEt antag-
onist-the person or persons who beat him or her-and say, "I for-
give you. I don't hold anything against you, for I know that you gave
back to me the karma that I set in motion by performing sinillar ac-
tions at a prior time." If possible, this verbal forgiveness should also
occur in person at least once during the 31.days, ideally face to face.
but at least by phone (if the person is still on this Earth plane).
Of course, for most it's much easier to pass on the slap or beating
to someone else. Parents often hit their own child, or abuse another
person in order to "get it out of their system." That slap has to go
someplage, and turning it into a flower is very, very difficult. This
prayashchittf! brings up all those awful memories. This discipline
brings up all the pain. It brings all the injustice to the surface of the
mind. Nevertheless, this tantra or method has been a great help to
many. It is difficult to forgive, and some had to work very diligently
within themselves to face up to being able to place that little flower
lovingly before the picture 'of a parent or a teacher, perhaps looking
like one in the painting on this page. Many tried and failed again
and again when deep-seated resentment emerged but fmally suc-
ceeded in true forgiveness, whose byproduct is forgetfulness. They all
feel so much better today. Now they are responsive, creative and hap-
py inside. Yes, hitting people is wrong-and children are people, too.
JULY , Igg8 HINDUISM TODAY 11
 LETTERS
A Divine Language is not just tor women [LETTERS, May '98]. It porter was that Islam and Christianity have
TAMIL IS NOT JUST ANY LOCAL LANGUAGE,
blJ,t a classical language with over 2,000
years of literary history [BRIEFLY, May '98].
It also happens to be the mother tongue of
used to be a "must have" for all Hindus, men
and women alike. No one is losing sleep over
why the men stopped wearing thilakam or
why they are not wearing dJwti every day. Is
co~tinued to progress in India despite hun-
dreds of thousands of books in all Indian
languages, including English, having been
published extolling all aspects of Hinduism
Dear .Amma &- Appa:
It Was Not "Alright"
some 65 million people around the world. it expected that women should stick to the down the centuries. We are telling Hindus
Along with Sanskrit, Tamil has also always tradition while men embrace the Western what Hinduism is "not" so that creedal reli,
been a '1anguage of the Gods." We have a culture and accouterments? The responsi- gions are not accepted as dharma and nailed
moral duty to protect the Hindu spiritual bility of carrying over the tradition to the as totalitarian imperialist ideologies like
HINDU RENAISSANCE TEAM
works in Tamil and give it its rightful place next generation rests equally on men's as Communism and Nazism.
~ the temples of Tamil HindUs. well as women's shoulders. SITA RAM GOEL
NEW DELHI, INDIA
HINDUISM TODAY was founded January 5, 1979, One Hindu youth tells her story of life in the
RENUKA KUMARASAMY SUBHA VARMA PATHIAL by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, for the
EDISON, NEW JERSEY, us
" renu_kumar@hotmail.com
" subha-pathial@ccm.intel.com " bibimpex@giasdlOl.vsnl.net.in following purposes: 1. To foster Hindu solidarity
as a unity in diversity among all sects and lin-
high-achieving Indian-American family
" IT IS EVERY WOMAN'S PREROGATIVE TO THE PASSING GlF SRV'GYANAMATA IS bls- eages; 2. To inform and inspire Hindus world-
The Colors of C.W. Leadbeater choose for herself what she would like to cussed accurately in your article ["Born- wide and people interested in Hinduism; 3. To ANONYMOUS
AS A THEOSOPHIST, I MUST RESPOND TO wear. I don't see' any sons of Bharat going to Again Books, REVIEWS, April '98], except dispel myths, illusions and misinformation
the Mock of text concerning C.W. Lead- school or work in America wearing tradi~ that she is described as a nun of the Ra- about Hinduism; 4. To protect, preserve and
ent world from where you grew
beater in your article ["The Colors of Our tional Indian attire or bindi. Why is it not makrishna Order whereas she was a nun of promote the sacred Vedas and the Hindu reli-
u~'An'ctir It is a ques- up. Times have changed; and
Cc;Jllsciousness," INSIGHT, May '98]. The ad- expected of them? ,.. Self-Realization Fellowship, a direct disciple gion; 5. To nurture and monitor the ongoing
spiritual Hindu renaissance. We invite our read- asked by you have to adjust.
jective "great," used in describing his work,
is one that, I belieye, many Theosophists
DEEPTIP KOTIHAL
KING OF PRUSSIA, PENNSYLVANIA, us
of Yogananda Paramahansa as mentioned in
the article.
ers to share these purposes with us by writing parents faced To those of you with younger /
letters, contributing reports and articles on with a child who is on the children, try to understand
would disagree with. Leadbeater was in my SANDY MARTIN events, sencling news clippings and encouraging verge of falling apart. They put z some of their fears and embar-
opinion a Christian riding on a Theosophi- Nonvegetarianism's Aftereffect " sandym@mail.gJobalnet.co.uk other;s to subscribe. their kids through the best j rassments and try to teach them
cal wave (see his involvement in The Liber- THE RAPID GROWTH WE SEE IN CHILDREN • schools, lived in a safe area and ~ pride. Instill in them a sense of
al Catholic Church, Co-Masonry and the these days is due to the growth hormones Expose Us to Hinduism hoped their children would be ~ humor. Let your kids know how
MY FAMILY MOVED TO AMERICA WHEN I Publisher: Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Adventist movement known as the Order of that are fed to the aninIals. I think this could spitting images of themselves- ~ much they mean to you, and
Admin. Dir.: Paramacharya Bodhinatha
the Star in thEl East, which I understand account for the early physiG.al development was two years old, and I never had the op- that they would be successful, < show it. Pay attention to your
Editor-in-Chiej: Acharya Palaniswami
many Hindus denounced in print), while it in children and the early onset of menstru- portunity to immerse myself in Hindu cul- Publisher's Aide: Acharya Ceyonswiuni respected citizens of this not-so-foreign child's health. Teach your children those
also seems that his work has done much to ation in our young girls. The violence seen ture as much as I would have liked. I was Deputy Editor: Acharya Kumarswami country of America. So what went wrong? aspects of language, culture and religion
discredit true Theosophical thought and in yaung boys could also be attributed to very happy to discover your magazine and Managing Editor: Sannyasi Arumugaswami The biggest, most prominent problem, that you think they would enjoy and appre-
teaching alongside the great foundations of this. They are being "forced" to grow physi- cannot express enough how comforting it is. Graphics Director: Sannyasi Natarajnathaswami the most obvious one, is we are Indian chil- ciate. Do not mock them when they do not
Eastern occultism and Hinduism. It is un- cally before they are ready mentally and It greatly bothers me that I know more Mauritius Editor: Sannyasi Sivamurugaswami dren immersed in America. In school, we understand certain things. Explain. The
fortunate that his name continues to turn up emotionally to deal with all the emotions about Christianity and its customs than my Mauritius Staff Writer: Sannyasi Sivadevaswami tried to blend in as much as possible. We pressure you PVt on a child to act a certain
within, not just in, the same articles here that come with physical maturity. Children own religion. I do not speak a language na- Prod./Promotion Mgr.: Sannyasi Sivakatirswami wanted everyone to like us, so we would way or to get that 'N can be so detrimental.
and there, but often even the same sen- naturally are drawn to vegetables, fruit and tive to India, and the holidays, prayers and Managing Ed. 's Aide: Tyagi Saravanathaswami
talk like them and act like them. We want- The most important thing is that we, as
tences alongside the name H .P. Blavatsky, as grain products. They will not even consume practices are a mys~ery to me. Dep. ManagingEa: Tyagi~
Editor-in-Chiifs Aide: Yogi Yuganatha
ed to "fit in." At home, parents would push children, as humans and a;1 young adults,
we fmd in your May issue. sweet or salty items without learning to first. PALLAVIVEERA us and pressure us to do well. Often that need to grow. We need to be given choices
Advertising Manager: Sadhaka Jothinatha
JOHNRAu DOVE GRiMES WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, US meant tutorial sessions that ended in vio- in life and need to make those choices for
SubSCription Manager: Sadhaka Adinatha
RODNEY, MICHIGAN, us " dhgrime@ibm.net Correspondents: Gowri Shankar & Anandhi Rama- lence, or other tough forms of punishment ourselves. Your children are responsible,
" Tsophia108@aol.com THOUGH BORN AS A HINDU, A LOT OF PEO- chandran, Chermai; Choodamani Shivaram, Bangalore; when we didn't measure up. In our eyes intelligent people, but not all can be doc-
Bulwarking Ahimsa ple are not exposed to the proper teachings Rajiv Malik, Prabha Prabhakar Bhardwaj, Mangala and hearts, we slowly became their medals. tors, lawyers or engineers.
Booking My Complaint . I UNDERSTAND THAT HINDUS BELIEVE or practice of Hinduism. As usual, fingers Prasad Mohanty, Delhi; V. S. Gopalakrishnan, Kerala; Any accomplis~ment was just a tool to The key to life is happiness. If Y011 take
THE "BOOK BARONS OF DELHI," ARTICLE that it is cruel and unnecessary to abuse or are always pointed at the younger genera- Basudeb Dhar, Bangladesh; Archana Dongre, Los An- brandish to their friends-to prove how .that away from your children, and they
madp an interesting reading, but I felt it to be slaug!her animals or to use them in experi- tion, saying that we have no interest in our geles; Lavina Melwani, New York; Dr. Hari Bansh Jha, well they were raising us. Nothing we did have no way of getting it back, it may be
incomplete [PUBLISHING, May '98]. It showed mental labs. There are animal welfare religion, are going in the wrong direction, Nepal; Parasram Ramoutar, Anil Mahabir, Trinidad; could ever have been based on our own too late to do anything about it. If you take
only one side of the coin. All of the six pub- grgups in the world who are trying to elimi- ;etc. How are these people to blame when Dr. Devananda Tandavan, Chicago; V. G. Julie Rajan,
merit; it was all their doing. In public we what we have said to heru;t and work thing~
lishers covered were happy and had nothing nate the cruelty. Their strategies and efforts the older generation)s responsible to lead, Philadelphia; Shikha Malaviya, Minnesota; Rajesh Jan-
tilal, South Africa; Tara Katir, Hawaii. Sanskritist: Dr. had to be the perfect little submissive toy thrOlJ.gh with your children, they will want
to complain about, showing that things are have helped to a certain degree, but the cru- and yet they fail to do so? Much emphasis is robots. We were constantly being put to forgive and forget.
S. Jayaraman, New York. Artists: A. Manivelu, S. Ra-
good and nice with them. As a reader-con- elty continues. I am sad to say that a letter placed on education, career, etc., but there jam. Cartoonists: Barry Geller, David Lourie, Mario down, told that we were not good enough, We think ultimately we all want the
sumer, I feel that the prices of Indian books such as this would not be- accep(ed by many isn't a firm foundation on religion. de Miranda, Manick Sorear, Gary L. Stair, Bob Thaves. how incredibly stupid we were if we ever same thing-respect. You parents want our
are high. Much higher sales can be achieved of my fellow Christians. I am therefore ask- VIMALA Photo Contributors: Thomas L. Kelly, Stephen P got a 'B', yet were expected to Qe the best. respect for bemg the ones who raised us.
if the prices are reasonable! Mter sales, ser- . ing for assistance from the Hindus. " vmala@mailexcite.com Huyler, Dev Raj Agrawal, Phal S. Girota, 'll:1ny Stone You parents were never really affe",tion- We children know that and are grateful for
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EDITORIAL
Beating What Devi1
Out dfOur Children?
Why a simple theological difference. makes it
harder to strike little Hindu boys and girls
BY. THE EDITOR
EATING CHILDREN WAS NEVER MUCH OF AN ISSUE IN
the old world. For most of human history, the only question
was how to beat, with what and how often. But whether to
? Most societies didn't even discuss the option. So par-
ents pummeled their offsPJ"ing into quivering obedience,
into abject submission and even to death. And nobody complained.
But attitudes are changing. Now, in,the gos, child beating-by
which we mean something far less severe than child abuse-is illu-
minated by the same light of conscience that outlawed slavery and
championed women's rights. It is becoming unthinkable and, in
some places, criminal to strike your own child.
Our perceptions of and therefore our relations with children are
not static. In his book, Peaceful Parenting in a Violent World, Dr.
Joseph Cress describes how Western society has swung between
authoritarian and permissive approaches to child-rearing, neither
of which, he says, really works. "The past several centuries are
marked by hypocracy, ambivalence and contradic-
tions in the raising of children. Three facts are
clear: 1. child maltreatmen{has been practiced
for centuries; 2. child maltreatment has been his-
torically sanctioned .by cultural values and 3. the
history of child abuse has contributed to current
controversies and practices." I
'He notes that every civilization, East and West,
has abused children. In European ancient times,
he Writes, "ehildren weren't even considered hu-
man, but instead were viewed as chattel, owned by
the father like sheep or a bullock cart. The ac-
cepted notion y.'as that children existed to' meet
the needs of their parents, and that they were a
burden, a fInancial investment, or born evil and
had to be redeemed by severe punishment." He '"
tells a tale of how brutal beatings, abandonment of g
children, sale into slavery and to}lsome child labor ~
were common up to the 13TH"Century. Then for ~
300 years attitudes morphed, and more "gentle" ~
disciplines became popular: verbal scolding, can-
ing and chaining to stools fOJ; hours at a time. In the 18TH century,
attitudes reversed again as parents moved away from conquering
aJ{d intimidating children towaid supportive strategies and mental-
emotional ways of controlling behavior. Coercion and threats gained
popularity, but severe whipping continued. As the 19TH century
dawned, "an increasing number of adults felt that whipping would
create lasting resentment or alienation, and rob children of their dig-
nity' and sense of identity." Nonetheless, strict child-rearing policies
16 HINDUISM TODAY JU1..Y , 1998
continued to dominate. Child-raising be-
came less a process of conquering young-
sters and more one of~raining and guiding
them. The emphasis turned to teaching
a.IUI S
them to conform and socialize."
America's pioneers believed children to
be essentially wicked. Their appetites and
"You'd think our children woula be more religiOUS.
Aft'er all, we did. beat the hell out of them."
passions had to be harnessed. They had to •
be 'broken like wild horses." Then about
80 years ago a view emerged that "all work
and no play makes Jack a dull boy." This
Overheard at a social gathering where parents lamented their kids' lack of religiOUS interest
lead to more time during childhood for R.EPRINTED WITH PERMISSION
The low-minded are happier than men
recreation and exploration. Discipline was
virtually abandoned and apologies were TII'S "EXTINCTION of
who know the good, for they are never
troubled by the pains of conscience.
even given to children who were treated
harshly. Styles of child-raising see-sawed
TlfE pf~SONAL.ITY ANp Tirukural, Verse 1072
through the century, fIrst becoming •
/oNfNf»' WITH THE
permissive, then authoritarian. When the VNIVi1$f" TtilNG . " Children are so wonderful-they just can't
parental tyranny of the 30S created malad, 1$ TH6f2!e ANY MONF( be beat! Swami Beyondananda
justed adults, an era of leniency followed in
IN IT?
the 50S and 60S, letting children grow up freely. But this resulted • If all the world is a stage, where is the
in undisciplined and irresponsible brats. Neither system seemed to
audience sitting?
work, and no one really knew how to compromise between
permissiveness and strictness. To this day, America remains ambi- The biggest room in the world is-room for equality. Whoever seeks to set one nation-
/
valent about whether to be tough or tender in raising children. improvement. Dada J.P. Vasw!lni ality, race or religion against another, seeks' A yoga master stepped up to a samosa stall
More subtle strategies have evolved recently. Parents are taught to degrade all nationalities, enslave all races and said: "Make me one with everything."
to take each childs temperament and age into account, to
We are a nation of many nationalities, and destroy all religions. Franklin D. Roo- The vendor fIxed a samosa and handed it
discipline differently according to their own nature and moods at
the time of a childs infraction, and according to cultural-biological many races, many religions-bound togeth- sevelt, 32nd US president (1882-1945), in to the yogi, who paid with a $20 bill. The
forces facing the child. And defInitely, experts urge, don't strike er by the single unity of 'freedom and a New York address, November 1, 1940. vendor put the bill in a cash drawer and
when angry. When in doubt, hug, don't hit. closed the drawer. "Where's my change?"
It is a sad fact that Christians are dragging their feet on reform. asked the yogi. The vendor smiled,
In the Southern Bible Belt of America it is still regarded as one's
Christian duty and every parent's inalienable right to physically WEVE HEARD So MUCH "Change must come from within."
punish young children. The Abraharnic Bible is legitimately quoted
in defense of such a claim (thoug.\;J. victims might say that civil laws ABOUT )t)UR TANDOORI
supercede the religious injunction in such cases).
Proverbs 22:15 & 14 says: "Foolishness is bound CHAl1'AL~ AND YOUR
in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction
shall drive it far from him. Thou shalt beat him
with the rod, and shalt delivet his soul from hell."
LAFlJRI Ro115,MY
Clearly, Christians who want to physically punish
children, and not all do, have a fIrm theological
DEAR."
defense for it. Hindus do not. ,
Quite the opposite. Hindus don't believe that
children are inherently evil, or that they need to DID YOU KNOW?
"have the Devil beat out of them." In Sanatana
Dharma each human, however young or old, is a Cool Dot Gets Hotter
divine, evolving soul: and the prime ethic is ,this:
Thou shalt not injure other living beings. That HE BIND! , OR POTTU IN TAMIL, IS
means neither hitting nor physically punishing
kids. We have no spiritual justillcation. We can-
not excuse oursylves by pointing to scriptural au-
thority to assuage our conscience. We cannot say
it's OK 'because the Vedas permit it." They don't.
1 a small dot worn on the forehead,
made of red powder, sandalpaste,
clay, cosmetics or other substances. A
sign that one is a Hindu, and a beauty
It is our belief that Indian spiritual wisdom has
mark for Hindu women, it mystically
much to offer the world today regarding this ana
other contemporary moral issues, just as we were at the vanguard represents the "third eye," which sees
about slavery and non,violent civil disobedience. Hindus can, we things physical eyes cannot. Today the
know, lead the world toward the right balance between tenderness bindi is an international fashion orna-
and toughness. Without..compromise of diScipline, we can set stan- ment. Western celebrities are all over
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it, from Hollywood actresses to rock
follows example, not sermonizing, so we must begin in the home,
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only be done there, where children grow up, one home at a time.
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SOCIAL · ISSUES

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Should corporal I

punishment endP
By V G. JULIE RAJAN, PHILADELPHIA
HOUGH THEY DON'T SAY MUCH ABOUT IT, YOUNG HINDU ADULTS
as
today feel deep resentmen~ and anger at having beeI;l beaten chil-
dren. We struggle with feelings of low self-esteem and failure. Many qf
us will continue the cycle of violence by beating our own children or
our spouses simply because we are unable to tesolve those feelings.
We don't blame our parents, who genuinely loved us and sacrificed for us,
for they ~e themselves just the previous round in this same cycle. We don't
blame our Hindu faith either, for corporal punishment of c~ildren is pre-
sent in every culture. But as advocates of nonviolence, we do claim a spe-
cial role in solving this problem. Unfortunately, when objections are raised
to corporal punishment, the Hindu community's reaction too often is out-
right denial, or a cmt,dismissal, as it "never happen? in high-caste nouses."
Some offer the defiant defense, "I was beaten as a cbild and am a better
adult today," or, "It is in our tradition." Unfortunately, such evasive and
erroneous replies mask th~ real harm being perpetuated.

The most common defense of hitting children is: "I was

b8CJten as a child and am a better adult today for it."
20 HINDUISM TODAY JULY , 1998
 This extensi~e rep~rt on child; discipline
includes accounts from HINDUISM TODAY
correspondents worldwide, but mostly from
v.c. Julie Rajan, who was born in Madurai
a1td raised in the USA. T~ topic is "corp 0;
ral punishment, " in the specific "Sense of
slapping, spanking or hitting a child as a
means of discipline at home or in school, ei-
ther with the hand, a cane, a belt or a hard
object. Also included are other forms of
physical distress as well as emotional batter-
ing...Our topic is not "child abuse," in the
sense of bodily injury, though corporal pun-
ishment can easily lead to such results.
I cially in families with working mothers. Just
Many Hindu 'adults deny there is any
problem with corporal punishment in our
community. The reality is too often like this
report from a young Indian-American Hin-
du: "I know of a Hindu boy whose father
hits him severely. Once, he gave him a black
eye. I didn't believe it, but then I saw it. He
had covered it very wen with his sister's
, \ makeup foundation. That scared me be-
cause when you can cover it that well, you
Austria outlawed corporal.punishment because
of ''the 1mmeasurable harm children suffer
when parents uSe physical punishment."
/
22 HI NDUISM TODAY JULY, 1998
One India school teacher quit her job
rathel' than fulfill the pl'incipal's re-
quest to punish students by banging
their head against the wall
don't know how many times he's covered it.
A couple of weeks later, his father hit him in
the other eye. I think that there was also a
lot of verbal and emotional abuse." HIN-
DUIS~ TODAY correspondent Choodie
Sivaram reports from Bangalore, "Beating is
eVf rywhere in India and in all classes, espe-
recently, I saw a prominent man slapping his
grandchild at a public event." [See page 32
for Choodie's three-page report. ]' A 1996 sur-
vey of university students in India found
. g1 % of boys and 86% of girls were physical-
ly punislied as children.
And in school? In America, it would be
rare for the super-achieving Indian-Ameri-
can children-even in those states that allow
it, such as Texas and Florida-to "9.e on the
I,
receiving end of the vice-principal's three-
foot paddle. But in India, Malaysia, Mauri-
tius and Sri Lanka, teachers routinely hit
even good students with a rattan cane or
ruler on the hand, back, legs or buttocks,
slap them across the face, bang their head
against the blackboard, twist their ears,
make them stand on desks with hands
raised high, squat in the sun or stand with
books held in outstretched hands for long
periods. Catholic schools in particular are
noted for their brutality. Despite new laws ,
in several countries to reduce such punish-
"IIlent, all these practices continue to this day.
A few weeks ago, for ~ample, a teacher in a
Chennai, India, school hit every student in
her eighth grade class on the hand for poor
performance on a math test. One student in
Malaysia said, "Vigorous slapping for not
paying attention during lessons is a daily af-
fair." [See "Healing; page 44, for the physi-
cal effects of hitting'children.]
Corporal punis,hment of children is legal
in most countries of the world. Only Italy,
Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Aus-
tria and Cyprus outlaw hitting of children
by their parents. The Parent Code in Swe-
den, the first country to pass such laws,
states, "Children are to fie treated with re-
spect for their person and individuality and
may not be subjected to physical punish-
ment or other injurious or humiliating treat-
ment." The Austrian lawmakers wrote, "The
motive for this reform is our knowledge of
the immeasurable harm children suffer
when parents are not willing or able to avoid
physical punishment as a way of bringiNg up
their children." Some countries outlaw only
hitting of students by teachers, including
Malaysia and South Africa. Corporal pun-
ishment in schools is legal in 23 of America's
50 states, and by parents in all states. Ac-
cordingJ o recent polls, 70 percent of Amer-
ican parents hit their children.
Opinions of saints in Nortli India: HIN-
DUISM TODAY corr~spondent Rajiv M~k
queried a number of saints and sadhus pre-
sent at the Kumbha Mela in early April on
the issue of corporal punishment. Many-
but not all-condemned the practice.
Ramesh Bhai Oza, the famed Kathak singer
from Mumbai said, "Only by dealing with
. the child with a lot oflove can his immense
latent potential be brought forward. What
can be done by the power of love cannot be
attained through a rod." Sri Mahant Ganga
Puri Ji, Secretary, Sri Panchayati Akahar
Mahanirvani, Haryana, concurred, "I do not
approve of the practice of physically man-
handling children. We must use other posi-
tive methods of reforming children."
Sri Mahant Govind Das Ji, Secretary, Sri
PHOT OS: ROH}NI KUMAR
School disciplines - whacking the hand
with a ruler, being made to hold books
in outstretched hands. Parents buy rat-
tan canes to beat children at home.
Panchayat Bada Udasin Akhara, of Harid-
war observed that, "When a child is beaten,
he becomes stubborn. And a stubborn child
becomes a confused child. When the child
knows that the ultimate punishment given
to him Will be beating, he becomes mental-
ly prepared. This is not the solution."
Sri Kapil Puri Ji, former Sri Mahant, Juna
Akhara, Haridwar, was one of the few who
demurred. "Our scriptures say that to age
five we must love the child. Five to sixteen is
the time when he must get tadana, repri-
manded [by beating], because it is from five
to sixteen years that his life is made."
Dr. P. Jayaraman, head of the Bharatiya
.Vidya Bhavan in New York, disagrees. In the
scripture cited by Kapil Puri, which comes
from the Neeti Shastra.by Chanakya (dated
350BCE) the term tadayet, according1:o Ja-
yaraman, "while literally meaning 'strike' or
'hit: symbolically means 'teach discipline' or
'teach strictly. '" Jayaraman states, "My per-
sonal view, and that of the Bhavan, is com-
pletely against corporal punishment of chil-
dren. We cannot quote some references from
smritis [secondary scriptures, such as Neeti
Shastra or the various Dharma Shastras] in
favor of this, since smritis are subject to
change from time to time and are based on
the circumstances of the time and period in
which they were written." For example, par-
ents will quote the saying, "Sarna, dana, bhe-
da, danda," which means "using kind words
(or negotiation), bribery, sowing dissension
and punishment (or striking)," and appears
in Manu Dharma Shastra 7.1g8. "These are
the four means of achieving success against
an ..-enemy," explains Jayaraman, and are
meant for a king, not a p~ent.
Other verses of Manu Dharma Snastra
explicitly permit corporal punishment, for
example, verse 8.22g, "A wife, a son, a slave,
a pupil and a younger brother of the full
blood who have committed faults, may be
beaten with a rope or a split bamboo." How-
ever, this verse has bee;; rejected in modern
times and cannot be used as a defense of
wife or child beating~
Swami Satchidananda of the Integral Yoga
Institute in Virginia, USA, told Hinduism
Today in an exclusive interview he believes
"limited thrashing, controlled hitting of chil-
dren a little, is necessary. Children should
know why the parents are doing it, and par-
ents should have complete control over
JU LY, 199 8 HI NDUISM TO DA Y 23
 themselves. If I am a big swami today, it is You will reap what you sow."
because I had a lot of beating from my fa- Students being hit on the hand with a "Those who beat or pinch or slap or whip
ther. He had control over it. He told me the thick rope by the discipline teacher for their children are the enemies to religion,
reason. The beating comes at the 'very last, coming to school with long fingernails becau; e they are pushing the next genera-
when everything fails. If the children know tion into lower consciousness," summarizes
the parents love them tl;!.e most, that they are SivWa Subramuniyaswami. [See page 28 for
doing everything because they love them, Swgmi Sahajananda of the Divine Life So- a description of these lowest chakras gov-
they will not have any re~ntment." ciety of South Africa offered this insight: "In erning fear, jealousy, anger, revenge, etc.]
Swami Tathagatananda of the Vedanta So- the old. days, during the parent's and grand- Dr. Devika Krishnan is a Hindu psychol-
ciety of New York also calls for parents to parent's childhood, the children had strong ogist who has been practicing in the USA for
approach their child with love. He said, . nerves and a different mental makeup. Even over 21 years. He asks, "If a child is born
"Life being an opportunity to reach divine if they received corporal punishment at with a low self-esteem, beating is only going
excellences, idealism in Hinduism exhorts school or at home, it did not affect them to add to the child's low self-esteem. On the
us to look upon a child as God Himsel£ Par- much. But today, perhaps the children have other hand, if the core personality is going
ents are to treat the child with utmost care weak nerves' and their mental make-up is to be one where there is yearning for inde- ..
and with a reverential attitude for their spir- also different. Any kind of violence is sure to pendence, you're going to create so much
itual well being. 'Sarna, dana, bedha, 'danda' affect their nerves and mind and even dam- anger in that child.•If the ehild is going to be
has nothing to do with raisiIig of kids." A few age their psyche. The scars left on their psy- basically aggressive, you're only going to
years ago the Ramakrishna Mission iIi. India che may be carried over to the next birth." make the child more aggressive. If the child
forbid corporal punishment in its schools. Does hitting work? Beating children does ·is going to be passive, you're only going to
The Vedic edict is ahimsa, affIrms Swami not instill discipline. Rather, violence brings make the child more dependent, submissive."
Brahmavidyananda of Satyananda Yoga into play myriad spiritual and psychological Respected astrologer Chakrapani Ullal of '
Ashram, Florida, [see his Minister's Mes- problems for both parents and child. "Vio- Los Angeles concurs, "If the tendency of the / I
sage, page 50]. The Shukla Yajur Veda, lence against children is a shameful act," child is to be mischievous, then you must
Brhihadaranayaka Upan~ had says, ''Ahim- states Swami Brahmavidyananda. Beating teach him dharma by giviIl"g him a good
sa is not causing pain to any living being at children "is an act of violence with its root training in how to be a better person. If you
any time through the actions of one's mind, in anger. Anger is caused by a desire for beat him, then you will 'bnly cause those
speech or body." "Nowhere in the Upan- something which, when not fuilllled, results z k!ll'mas indicated by his astrological chart to
ishads," agrees Tathagatananda, "do we do in uncontrolled action. Everything is based ;:; develop. Punishing children makes them
fmd anything like physical punishment." on karma. What goe;; around comes around. ~ hide their feelings, tell lies, manipulate their

ceptable [in the me. When I frustrated her, she

It's Scary Being Hit community]. If

you say something
wrong, they'll hit you on the
me in front of my American India: "In my father's house upset me. The baby did not each other. She destroyed it.
just popped and would throw
things at me, usually the TV
remote control. I do not under-

By Big People face. If you hit your brother,

Corporal punishment thrives
at home and in schools
NDER THE CLOAK OF
anonymity, dozens of
Hindu youths gave testi-
mony of their experi-
ences with child beating.
USA: "I once remember
when I was 11, I had done
something wrong. I ran to my
room and locked my door, be-
cause I knew my father was in
an angry rage-he had been
beaten regularly as a child. He
began beating my door and
scratching it so loud that I did
"
not open it. If! did, I knew it
would be bad. The next day, I
looked at my door and it
looked liked some animal had
in my family by my parents. As
he was the older one, my par-
ents were more harsh with
him. I know he has internal-
ized it all. He hates my parents
and feels they abused him and
hit him too much. They have
apologized for it and realize
that wasn't the way to do it, but
he can't get over it."
Mauritius: '1\1l of us in our
lives have been beaten by our
parents using hands, canes,
hangers, rubber pipes, sticks
and brooms. Until I was twelve
years old, my mother used to
hit me on the head with cook-
ing pans and pots."
they hit you on the hand. If
you kick someone, they hit you
on your leg."
India: "My friend was hit
regularly as a child and cannot
get over it. Now he is a parent.
Sometimes he gets really angry
and takes his mood out on his
kid. He doesn't hit her, but he
sends the same message."
USA: '1\s you get older, it
turns into verbal abuse. It is al-
ways that the Indian parent
and Indian-American child are
coming from two different di-
rections and end up at a wall.
There is just no in-between.
When you go to school, you are
one person and when you
come home you are another
person. The only positive way
to see it is to think that for my
kids it will be different."
USA: "I was eleven. I had
just come home from playing
with my friends outside, and
friends on the doorstep. He
just grabbed my hair and hit
me. He did the same when we
had an Indian friend over. I re-
alized this wasn't normal only
when my friend gave me a
look of shock and sympathy."
India: "I feel abused be-
cause my dad would pick up
anything that came to his hand
and hit me. I have actually
bled, I have actually been cut."
USA: "Sad, but one of my
earliest memories was as a
child of about three to four
years old. I am not sure what I
did wrong, but I remember my
father picking me up and
throwing me, my back, against
the wall-I remember this
quite clearly. I remember con-
fronting him about it, but he
denied it all."
India: "My father told me
stories about how his grandpar-
ents used to put red chilies
around his and his cousin's eyes
in India, my youngest uncle,
about 19 years old, was always
getting into trouble. One day
when he came home late, my
older uncle grabbed a shoe,
chased him into a room and
really beat him badly. The
screams and beatings were just
so loud and lasted for twenty
minutes and no one did any-
thing. There were ten adults in
the house and not even the
mother did anything. I seemed
to be the only angry person
there, but as a young boy my-
self, what could I do? Was I
shocked when that young un-
cle committed suicide later?
No. When people beat you and
tell you are worth nothing, why
live?"
Malaysia: "Yelling at the
children would be most regu-
lar, almost every day in a
week. Harsh words painful to
hear are used. Stupid would be
the very most common."
cry. It made me think, 'He is
used to it.'''
India: "My grandmother
My mom realized how de-
structive that anger could be,
and she never hit us. I always
stand how anyone can hit a
child. They may do things
wrong, but they are learning
tried to go to school after she see my grandmother as a and can only learn to do things
attained puberty. She was go- woman whose life was molded right by making mistakes. We
ing to run away to another by that beating." learn from our mistakes. So, I
town. When her father found USA: "My mom never hit would never hit my kids."
out, he beat the hell
out of her, black and
blue, locked her up
for days and married
her off She vowed
her own daughter
would get an educa-
tion. That beating
made her deter-
mined, but also hate-
ful and vengeful. She
destroyed the family
eventually, destroyed
her own children's re-
lationship-my mom
and my aunt. My
mom and her broth-
ers, never spoke to ~
Rapping on the head
.z
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p

clawed it." USA: "I have been slapped my father must have gotten if they had done something India: "I saw the father slap with the knuckles is :>: • •~
USA: "My cousin was raised on the face. I think that's ac- mad because he began hitting wrong." his one-year-old baby, and it comrrwnpunishnwnt ~ L-~ ____________________________________~____~.......

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24 HINDUISM T ODA.Y JU,LY , 1997 JUL Y, 1997 HfNDUISM T ODA Y

parents and develop poor associa-
tions outside the family." Vamadeva Shas-
". "In the old days, children had
tri, an expert in ayurveda, pointed out that
children react differently to punishment
according to their physical constitution
(cWsha). ''A vata cWsha child can be dam-
aged for life by physical punishment; the
kapha child needs j:o be stimulated from
the inside, not the outside; the pitta child
will develop strategies to fight back."
Beating children actually undermines
any discipline that parents might be trying
to' instill in their children. An August 1997
study by Dr. Ml,lITay Strauss in the Archives
of Pediatrics and AcWlescent Medicine re-
ported that the more children are spanked,
the more likely they will be aggressive or en-
gage in other anti-social behavior. In a 1994
study of 8,000 US farnilies, Strauss found that
children who are beaten more are more like-
ly to attack theIr own' siblings. They develop
less adequate consciences, experience de-
pression as adults, and are inclined to physi-
c&ny attack their spouses as adults.
"When they grow older they 'can see
abuse as a way of control," agrees Santhi Pe-
riasamy, a US-born, Hindu graduate student
in psychology. "For boys, they have more of
a tendency to hit their spouses and their
children. For women, you have a tendency
to g~t into an abusive relationship and stay. It
can predispose you to anorexia, depression.
It can affect you in so many ways."
Worst of all, when we beat children, we
are only falling into a continuous cycle. "Be-
yond any doubt, I think all studies prove
that abuse is perpetuated from one genera-
tion to another if there is no early interven-
tion," adds Dr. Krishan.
Breaking the cycle: One visitor to the
HINDUISM TODAY editorial offices in Hawaii
told a shocked staff that "Hindu parents in.
" America know not to hit their-kids in public
because they might get arrested." A virtual
conspiracy of silence prevails. "Your parents
tell you that what happens in the family
stays in the family," explains Periasamy. "You
also don't waDi to send bad messages about
your parents. Then the kids who are hit all
of the time, I don't think they say anything
26 HINDUISM TODAY JULY, Igg8
to anyone."
The next generation of Hindus,
however, is not prepared to main-
tain this conspiracy of silence-
witness their stark testimonies for
this article. Nearly all frrm1y be-
lieve that corporal punishment is
wrong, and do not intend to use it
on their children. Of course,
when the reality of parenthood
comes upon them, as it did to
HINDUISM TODAY correspondent
Shikha Malaviya of Minnesota,
young mother of a two-year-old,
they may waiver. "You don't real- I '
ize how overwhelming the re-
sponsibility of bringing up a child
is. If your child is beyond control,
strong nerves. Today children and believe me, they can be ab-
solutely defiant, what do you do? I
have a'different meJltal make- started thinking, 'Maybe it is OK
to hit: then I thought, 'How could
up. Violence is sure. to damage I think like that?'"
their psyche and leave scars We can look to the country of
Sweden, the first (0 ban corporal
carried to their next birth." punishment, as a model for the
massive change in societal atti-
SWAMI SAHAJANANDA tudes required. They did it not
through criminal penalties, but
through a Parent's Code which
calls for the intervention of social
service agencies to teach parents
alternative methods of discipline.
The trend against corporal pun-
ishment in Sweden began in the
1920S when it was outlawed in
schools. In 1966 it was banned for
parents. While there were initial
periods of permissiveness by the parents, a
recent report indicat~s they hl;lve gained
considerable skill with nonviolent methods.
By 1994, only eleven percent of Swedes sup-
ported corporal punishment. After a year's
"experiment," even school headmasters con-
ceded nonviolent methods worked better.
Just as parents can improve the' lives of
their children by setting a positive example,
parents can harm their children by setting a
baa example. When you beat your child, you •
show them it's alright to peat others. When
you slap them, pinch them and twis their
ears, you teach them that violence and anger
are the preferred ways to solve problems.
When you beat with the intent of teaching
them a lesson, you tell them they are failures,
and that they do not d~serve your respect.
You are not teaching them about the great
love and tolerance weached by Hinduism.
So the next time that you are about to hit
your child, think about it. As a Hindu, will
your legacy to your offspring and our com-
munity be one of hate or one of hope? _
FOR A LIST OF RESOURCES ON CHILD REARING, SEE PAGE 35.
PHOTOGRAPHS WERE TAKEN BX nOHINI KUMAR OF RK
ENTERPRISES AND STAGED WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE
MALAYSIAN DEVOTEES OF HINDUISM TODAY PUBLISHER
SATGURU SIVAYA SUBRAMUNIYASWAMI. NO CHILD WAS
HARMED IN THE PROCESS.
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 force centers below the muladhara. Their beliefs and attitudes
INSIGHT strongly reflect the animal nature, the instinctive mind. Thus, the
muladhara chakra, the divine seat of Lord Ganesha, is the dividing
point between the lower nature and the higher. It is the beginning of
religion for everyone, entered when consciousness arrives out of the
realms below Lord Ganesha's holy feet. Through personal sad-
hana, prayer, meditation, right thought, speech and ac-
tion and love of God, we lift our own consciousness
and that of others into the chakras above the mu-
ladhara, bringing the mind into the higher na-
ture.
The functions of the chakras are aspects of
our being that we use every day. In the same
way, we use our arms and hands everyday
without thinking. Yet, if we study the physi-
A yogic road-map for awareness ology of the hands, we encounter layer after
layer of iI!tricate interrelationships of tissues,
as it journeys through states of consciousness cells, plasma. We exanline the engineering of
the structural system of bones and joints, the
energy transmission of the muscular system,
the biochemistry of growth and healing, the
,biophysics of nerve action and reaction. Sudden-
HERE ARE FOURTEEN GREAT NERVE CENTERS IN THE ly a simple and natural part of human life seems
complex. Similarly, we use the various functions of con-
physical body, in the astral body and in the body of the sciousness, the chakras, every day without even thinking about.
soul. These centers are called chakras in Sanskrit, them.
which means "wheel." These spinning vortices of The chakras do not awaken. They are already awakened in every-
one. It only seems as if they awaken as we become aware of flowing
energy are actually regions of mind power, each one our energy through them, because energy, willpower and awareness
governing certain aspects of our inner being, and to- are one and the same thing. To become conscious of the core of en-
ergy itself, all we have to do is detach awareness from the realms of
gether they are the subtle components of people. reason, memory and aggressive, intellectual will; then turning in-
When inwardly perceived, they are vivid1y colorful ward, we move from one chakra to another. The physical body
and can be heard. In fact, they are quite noisy. changes as these more refined energies flow through it. And the
inner nerve conduits, nadis, inwardly become stronger.
When awareness flows through anyone or It may help, as we examine each of these centers individual-
more of these regions, the various functions of ly, to visualize ourselves as a seven-storied building, with each
story being one of the chakras. Awareness travels up and
consciousness operate, such as memory, rea- down in the elevator, and as it goes higher and higher, it
son and willpower. The physical body has a gains a progressively broader, more comprehensive and
connection to each of the seven higher beautiful vista. Reaching the top floor, it views the panora-
ma below with total understanding, not only of the land-
chakras through plexuses of nerves along scape below, but also of the relation of the building to oth-
the spinal cord and in the cranium. As the er buildings and of each floor to the next. Venturing
below the muladhara, we enter the basement levels of
kundalini force of awareness travels along consciousness.
the spine, it enters each of these chakras, energizing Planetary patterns: During each predominant age
them and awakening in turn each function. By exam- throughout history, one or another of the chakras has come
ining the functions of these great force centers, we can into power. When the Greek God Cronus, the God of time,
clearly cognize our own position on the spiritual path was worshiped, the mass consciousness came into memo-
and better understand our fellow man. ry-the muladhara chakra-with its new-found concern for
In anyone lifetime, one may predominantly be aware . time, for a past and a future, dates and records. Next the
in two or three centers, thus setting the pattern for the mass consciousness came into the svadhishthana and its pow-
way one thinks and lives. One develops a comprehension of ers of reason. Reason was a God in the Golden Age of Greece.
these seven regions in a natural sequence, the perfection of Discourse, debate and logic all became instruments of power
one leading logically to the next. Thus, though we may not and influence. If it was not reasonable, it was not true. Next the
psychically be seeing spinning forces within ourself, we never- chakra of will came into power. Man conquered nations, waged
j theless mature through memory, reason, willpower, cognition, uni- wars, developed efficient weapons. Crusades were fought and king-
I versallove, divine sight and spiritual illumination. doms established. Our world was experiencing force over force. Di-
There are six chakras above the muladhara, which is located at rect cognition, the anahata chakra, came when man opened the
l' the base of the spine. When awareness is flowing through these
chakras, consciousness is in the higher nature. There are also seven
doors of science within his own mind. He cognized the laws of the
physical universe: mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy and
chakras below the muladhara, and when awareness is flowing
through them, consciousness is in the lower nature. The lower Inner world map: (left) A traditional diagram shows the myriad di-
chakras are located between the coccyx and the heels. In this age, mensions of Hindu cosmology; (above) a Vaishnava rendition of the
the Kali Yuga, most people live in the consciousness of the seven Manipura chakra, with the presiding deity being carried by Caruda
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biology. Then he unfolded the mind sciences by looking into his sub-
conscious mind, into the chakras where he had previously been.
With malls look into his own mind, psychology, metaphysics and the
mind-religions were born.
Now, in our present time, the mass consciousness is coming into
vishuddha-the forces of universal love. The forerunners of this
emerging Sat Yuga, popularly called the New Age, are
not worshiping reason as the great thing of the
mind or trying to take over another's possessions
through the use of force. They are not wor-
shiping science or psychology or the mind
religions as the great panacea. They are
looking inward and worshiping the light, the
Divinity, within their own body, within
their own spine, within their own head,
and they are going inward into a deep
spiritual quest which is based on direct
experience, on compassion for all things
in creation.
As the forces of the vishuddha chakra come
into prominence in the New Age, it does not
mean that the other centers of consciousness
have stopped working. But this new one coming
into prominence is claiming the energy within the mass
consciousness. When the center of divine love gains a little
more power, everything will come into a beautiful balance. There
will be a natural hierarchy of people based on the awakening of their
soul, just as previous ages established hierarchies founded on power
or intellectual acumen. With that one needed balance, everything on
the Earth will quiet down, because the vishuddha chakra is of the
new age of universal love, in which everyone sees eye to eye, and if
they do not, there will always be someone there to be the peace-
maker. Look back through history and you will see how these plan-
etary influences, these great mind strata of thought, have molded
history and people.
Personal patterns: The same cyclical pattern of development in
human history is evident even more clearly in the growth of the in-
dividual. In the seven cycles of a person's life, beginning at the time
of birth, awareness automatically flows through one of these chakras
and then the next one, and then the next, provided a pure life is lived,
following Sanatana Dharma under the guidance of a satguru. Each
one experiences the chakras somewhat differently, depending upon
the amount ofkundalini force [see page 36] that is released. Non-re-
ligious people, who have a minimal amount of kundalini released,
may experience the chakra only in its physical and emotional mani-
festation. Those who perform sadhana will experience the chakras in
a much deeper way. Yogis performing tapas, serious austerities,
would likely experience each chakra in the depths of their soul body.
In reality, most people never make it into the higher four chakras,
but instead regress back time and again into the chakras of reason,
instinctive will, memory, anger, fear and jealousy. Nevertheless, the
natural, ideal pattern is as follows. From one to seven years of age,
one is in the muladhara chakra learning the basics of movement,
language and society. The patterns of the subconscious are estab-
lished primarily in these early years. From seven to fourteen one is
in the svadhishthana chakra. One reasons, questions and refmes the
ability to think for oneself Between fourteen and twenty-one, one
comes into willpower. The personality gets strong. Likes and dislikes
solidify. Generally, about this time one wants to run away from home
and express oneself. From twenty-one to twenty-eight one begins
realizing responsibilities and gaining a new perspective of them-
selves and the world. Theoretically, one should be in anahata, the
chakra of cognition, but a lot of people never make it.
If awareness is mature and full, however, having incarnated many,
many times, one goes on at twenty-one to twenty-eight into the ana-
hata chakra. Here we begin to understand "what its all about." We
JULY , 1998 HINDUISM TODAY 29
comprehend our fellow men and women, their relationships, the
world around us. We seek inwardly for more profound insight. This
chakra is stabilized and smoothly spinning once one has raised one's
family and performed one's social duty, and though one may yet con-
tinue in business, one would find the energies withdrawing natural-
ly into the chest. It is most often the renunciate, the mathavasi, the
sannyasin, who from twenty-eight to thirty-five or before, depending
on the strictness of his satguru, comes into the vishuddlw chakra,
into inner light experiences, assuming a spiritual responsibility for
himself and for others. This awakening soul appreciates people, loves
them. His heart and mind broadly encompass all of humanity. He is
less interested in what people do and more in what they are. It is here
that, having withdrawn from the world, the world begins to renounce
him. Then, from thirty-five to forty-two or before, he perfects his
sadhanas and lives in the ajna chakra, experiencing the body of the
soul, that body of light, awareness traveling within naturally at that
time, withdrawing from mundane matters of
the conscious mind. From forty-two through
forty-nine he is getting established in the sa-
hasrara chakra in a very natural way, having
met all of the responsibilities through life.
Esoterically, there are seven more chakras
above and within the sahasrara. Agamic Hin-
du tradition cites them as seven divisions of
Paranada, inner sound. They are, from high-
est to lowest: Unmana, Samana, Anasrita,
Anatha, Ananta, Vyomanga and Vyapini.
These chakras are a conglomerate of nadis
that slowly develop as a result of consistent
and repetitive Self-Realization experiences.
The Seven Chakras or Higher Consciousness
Below we present a condensed overview of
each of the seven principal chakras, followed by the seven chakras
below the muladhara. For more details, and to see also how chakras
correlate to the physical body, refer this months gatefold, pages 3-5.
The mu/adhara: The memory center, muladhara, located at the
base of the spine, creates a consciousness of time through the powers
of memory. Whenever we go back in our memory patterns, we are
using the forces of the muladhara. It has four petals or aspects, one
of which governs memories of past lives. The other three contain the
compiled memory patterns and interrelated karmas of this life. This
chakra is associated also with human qualities of individuality, ego-
ism, physicality (including sexuality), materialism and dominance. A
Castles of consciousness: (counterclockwise from above) The mu-
ladhara, svadishthana, manipura, anahata, vishuddha, ajna and sa-
hasrara chakras, shOWing their presiding deity and seed syllable
30 HINDUISM TODAY JULY, 1998
person lives predominantly in this chakra during the first seven years
of life, acquiring language skills, relationships and cultural ways.
Svadishthana: Once the ability to remember has been estab-
lished, the natural consequence is reason, and from reason evolves
the intellect. Reason is the manipulation of memorized information.
We categorize it, edit it, rearrange it and store the results. People in
this six-petaled chakra research, explore and wonder, ''Why? Why?
Why?" They propose theories and formulate rational explanations.
They often form a rigid intellectual mind based upon opinionated
knowledge and accumulated memory, reinforced by habit patterns
of the instinctive mind. It is in this chakra that the majority of peo-
ple live, think, worry and travel on the astral plane. We open natu-
rally into this chakra between ages 8 and 14. This center controls
the muladhara, as does each progressively higher chakra control
those that lie below it.
Manipura: The third chakra is represented in the central nervous
system by the solar plexus, where all nerves
merge to form the "second brain." Of its ten
petals, five face up and five down. Corre-
spondingly, depending on how the energy is
flowing, the forces of willpower from this
chakra add power either to worldly con-
sciousness through the first two centers or to
spiritual consciousness through the fourth
and fIfth centers. When awareness is con-
fined to the realms of memory, reason and
aggressive willpower, men and women are in-
stinctive in nature. They are quick to react
and retaliate, quick to have their feelings hurt
and quick to pursue the conquest of others
while fearing their own defeat. In these states
of mind, the ego rises to its greatest promi-
nence, and emotional experiences are ex-
tremely intense. Young adults from 14 to 21 discover willpower, will-
fulness and individuality as this chakra unfolds.
Anahata: The center of perception and insight is often referred to
as "the lotus of the heart." Its 12 "petals" imply that cognition can
be expressed in twelve distinct ways or through as many masks or
personae. People abiding here are generally well-balanced, content
and self-contained. Even when in day-to-day life they become in-
volved in the seemingly fractured parts, they are able to look
through it all and understand. They have a deep understanding of
human nature, which brings effortless tolerance and an innate abil-
ity to help others, to resolve conflicts and confusions. Between ages
21 and 28, perceptions deepen and understanding matures for those
who enter this chakra. Many people regress back into reason and
memory. But, if awareness is mature, having incarnated many times,
and well-trained all through youth, the soul proceeds smoothly into
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anahata consciousness.
Vishuddha: Universal or divine love is the faculty expressed by the
vishuddha chakra, Whenever people feel filled with inexpressible
love for and kinship with all mankind, all creatures large and small,
they are vibrating within the sixteen-petaled vishuddha. When
deeply inmlersed in this state, there is no consciousness of being a
person with emotions, no consciousness of thoughts. One is just be-
ing the light or being fully aware of oneself as radiant force flowing
through all form. One may sometimes see light throughout the en-
tirety of the body. The exceptional soul who resides fully in this cen-
ter, usually between the ages of 28 and 35, is able for the fIrst time
to withdraw awareness totally into the spine, into sushumna, the
central spiritual current. Ultimately, he realizes that the inner being
is the reality of himsel£
Ajna: The sixth force center is called ajna. It is the "third eye," the
center of divine sight and direct congition. Of its two "petals" or
facets, one is the ability to look into the lower
worlds or states of mind and the other is the
perception of the higher worlds, or spiritual
states, of consciousness. It, therefore, is the
connecting link, allowing the awakened soul
to relate the highest consciousness to the low-
est in a unified vision. We open naturally into
this chakra between ages 35 and 42.
Sahasrara: The seventh center at the top of
the head is called the crown chakra. Accord-
ing to the ancient mystics, it governs 1,008 as-
pects or attributes of the soul body. These per-
sonae are transparent, a crystal-clear white
light, ever present, shining through the cir-
cumference of the golden soul body. Here the
soul dissolves even blissful visions of light and
is immersed in pure space, pure awareness,
pure being. Within the sahasmra is the bmhmarandhra, or "door of
God," an aperture in the sushumna nadi through which the kundali-
ni exits the body, catapulting the mind beyond and into nirvikalpa
samadhi, and the truly pure spirit escapes the body at death. We
open naturally into the crown chakra between ages 42 and 49.
Often when people get older, if they have not learned to sustain
consciousness in the higher chakras, they start to drop in conscious-
ness, returning to reason and trying to understand why all the things
that happened to them in their lifetime happened as they did. They
get stuck in the muladhara and spend years just remembering the
past, reliving old experiences, good and bad alike, But more mature
souls rightly fullfilllife's two fmal stages: senior advisor and religious
solitaire. They utilize their golden years to manifest higher-chakra
faculties oflove, light, inner vision and God Realization through ser-
vice, sadhana, pilgrimage, worship and meditation.
The Seven Sub-Muladhara Regions
Atala: The flrst lower chakra, located in the hips, governs the state
of mind called fear, which is truly a bottomless abyss. Someone in
this consciousness fears death, fears life, even fears God and other
people. This center is also the home of lust and promiscuity.
Vita/a: Here anger predominates, and burning resentment. Anger
comes from despair, confusion, frustration or lack of understanding.
People in the consciousness of this chakra, centered in the thighs,
are always wrathful, mad at the world, even angry at God..
Suta/a: This chakra, found in the knees, governs jealousy, wanting
what one can't have. Jealousy is a feeling of inadequacy, inferiority
and helplessness. People in sutala consciousness covet everything, of-
ten deny the existence of God and are contentiously combative.
Ta/ata/a: Prolonged confusion dominates here, giving rise to in-
stinctive willfulness: to get rather than give, to push others around
and pursue materialistic advancement over all else. Greed and de-
ceit prevail in this dog-eat-dog state of mind,
centered in the calves.
Rasata/a: This chakra of the ankles is the
true home of the animal nature. Unmitigated
selfishness prevails, of seeing to the well-being
of "number one" first. The suffering of others
is of no concern. Jealousy, anger and fear are
intense, even high, states of consciousness.
Mahata/a: This is the realm of conscience-
lessness, or inner blindness to the effect of
one's actions, of negativity and deep depres-
sion. Those living in this chakra of the feet steal
freely, taking what they justify as theirs any-
way, feeling that the world "owes them a living."
Pata/a: Here, in the soles of the feet, is the
abode of destructiveness, revenge, murder for
the sake of murder, torture and hatred ex-
pressed through harming the properties, minds, emotions and bod-
ies of others. Hatred and scorn abide here. Malice reigns supreme.
Reason seldom reaches this state of mind.
This is the story of our evolution through the mind-from the
gross to the refined, from darkness into light, from a consciousness
of death to immortality. We follow a natural pattern that is built
right in the nerve system itself: memory; reason; will; direct cogni-
tion; inner light perceptions of the soul which give a universal love
of all mankind; psychic perceptions through divine sight; and the
heavenly refmement of being in the thousand-petaled lotus.
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GraYling Up
Nonviolent methods of child rearing remain a
distant goal for most overworked moth~rs \

By CHO O DIE S IVARAM , B AN GALORE nipulation of marks. So far I have gotten

T TIMES , I CONFESS , I HAVE HIT MY
own son. He would. take it quietly,
and when everything cooled down,
he'd ask me why I had punished
him-leaving me totally lost. Had I
not yelled at this boy and told him
exactly and at length what was his fault and
why he was being punished? Only when I
calmly explained to him what had annoyed
me, and why I had resorted to punishing
him, would he understand and correat his
mistake and promise me never to do it again.
I realized the whole exercise of punishment
was uncalled for. I could have communicat-
ed to him without the hitting. It would be
better for hiIp, and better for myself, too.
But how many mothers have the time, en-
ergy or the patience to go on explaining to
the child what his mistakes are? I specify
mothers because in most households the
mother is the villain when it comes to pun-
ishments. For most parents and children I
spoke to in Bangalore, it was the father who
never hit the child. Yet most children
seemed to dread displeasing Dad-"He'll get
angry." This notion is often implanted by the
mother herself in a bid to discipline .children
them to stop hitting my daughter, age 8,
though teachers have subjected her to public
humlliation as retaliation. Now I am work-
ing to protect the rest of the students. Little
do teachers realize that harsh treatment has
adverse implicati~ns on young minds that
will carry forward into adulthood resulting /
in personality damage.
No easy change: Children can be exasper-
a~g at times. What's the hapless mother to
do? Some who are blessed with tremendous
patience let it pass or speak sweetly to the
has spent all her life doing menial jobs and . for the ill behavior of the child and then find given them a whack or two then, perhaps
essary," admits Mrs. Malathi
wants a better future for her children. But corrective steps without victimizing the lit- they would have been far better children
Sharma, a renowned musician.
the middle-class, educated parents doing tle ones," states Dr. Radha, a child specialist. now," rues middle-aged, overworked Padma
Rare is the parent who has
this is just silly. Parents should understand Here in India, the child for all practical who starts the day at 4 :00AM to end it only by I

by threatening father's wrath. never struck the chilpren. "My .1

The child who is not hit at home will
soon~r or later most certainly be slapped,
caned or otherwise physically punished at
even the best schools. I have seen teachers
easily use their hands on children for no rea-
son at all-because somebody is not sitting
properly during assembly or because a child
is whispering to her neighbor. In my chil-
dren's school I have found teaphers beating
small children so often for trivial Feasons
that I wondered how they haJl..tlled their
own kids. When I asked teachers this ques-
tion, what emerged were little white lies-
"Oh no, I never beat my children. I control
them so beautifully." • monish and others choose to give a spanking parents," says Dr. Ramakrishna, a senior
I spent a whole year during 19!i>7 trying to
fight this issue at my children's SChool, where
authorities were stubbornly complacent. To
them this is no~issue at all. Parents prefer not
to take up the matter for justified fear of
subjecting their child to victimization, fear
of nonpromotion to the next grade and ma-
32 HINDUISM TOD A.Y JU \- Y , 199 8
wife and I conscientiously made
sure we never hit our children.
We always reasoned it out with
them, why we did not want them
to d0 something. When they
threw tantrums or sat grumpily,
we just ignored them and let ~t
pass. After some time, they would
realize that acting funny wouldn't
pay. It works well to be patient
Hands full: Mothers worldwide cqznplain fathers won't with children," said C.R. SiJJ.ha, a
share fairly in child-rearing responsibilities veteran actor and director.
, tend a cricket coaching camp, but the child aged parents are in the home, mom and dad
"I feel children get beaten be..!
child. Some teachers scold mildly, some ad- cause of the impatience on the part of the
. that ·the child ought to' know that. He
or two. "I feel that when children go out of professor of English. "If children don't meet
control, they need to be disciplined, and a their parents' high expectations, they begin
smack or two is necessary. Children have to chastise them. But why should the child
the habit of getting the mother so agitated become a showpiece of the parent's expec-
that spanking beeomes inevitable. I have hit tations? Parents want the ehildren to achieve
my children occasionally when the situation what they have not been able to. I can ex-
warranted. At that moment, I felt it was nec- pect this attitude from my servant maid who
the psychology of the child, assess his abili- purposes is the responsibility of the mother. midnight. Sadly, the child is at the r!,!ceiving
I
ties and aptitude, be capable of judgment It's her duty to take care of their food and end of all this pent-up tension, often getting
and incJllcate certain values by being an ex- daily n~ds, get them ready for school, sit punished for no fault of his own. And when
ample themselves rather than being irra- with tliem through their studies in the a spanking comes, it seems wholly unreason-
tional, regimenting and beating them," ayers evenings and look after their other needs as ab~ to the child. The child is the helpless .
Prof Ramakrishna.. "I myself," confides the well. A working mother spends all day slog- victim of mother's fra~ed nerves. Later
professor, "was severely beaten by my elder ging both at hOqie and the office. It's amaz- apolGgies, however heartfelt, never. fully
brother when I was a young boy. But I got so ing what is expected of her. The husband, in erase the fear and hurt.
used to it that I became thick-skinned." sharp contrast, relaxes at day's end in front Lasting consequences: "The child is left
One victim of unreasonable expectations of the idiot box, rarely lending a helping defenseless by a beating," states Dr. Radha,
is ten-year-old Sujit. His father insists that hand. Most households in middle-class fam- "and this feeling can be extremely damag-
his son get up at five in the morning to at- ilies functi6n this way. If in-laws or their ing. What if the child gecides to hit back-
is the parent willing to take it? It's unfair to
is reluctant to wake up so ea'[ly. The father . will have'to pJ.lt up with a lot of interference, use physical power against someone weaker
feels he's providing a great opportunity and which has a spoiling effect on the child. and younger than you. Even if you insist an
"Sometimes I wonder why I was born at occasional whack on the rear is necessary,
dreams of seeing his son play test matches at all, when the husband doesn't lift a finger at still it should be as a warning, not a routine."
a tender age. As a result, Sujit's}:Ilornings be- home, and children just don't listen to me. An eminent journalist friend of mine,
gin with sermons and yelling. •. Every'time I have tried to discipline my two whose name I do not wish to disclose, ran
"What parentS'do not accept is that they sons, my in-laws would instantly jump to away from home at the tender age of nine.
are the very cause fer the childs misbehav- their rescue. They have grown up with the His father 'would routinely hit him with a
ior. Parents have to ,first blame themselves habit of disregarding anything I say. Had I stick or iron rod "for no reason or fault of
I
J U LY, 1998 H I"N D UISM TOD A Y 33
mine. I think he hated me," he confessed
chokingly. "Getting hit every day made me
so stubborn and defiant. I developed a
strong hatred for my family. My mother
would silently watch me being hit and at
times even supported Itly father rather than
stopping him, because she wanted to be a
devoted wife. I decided to.:leave home to get
away from this torture. I have slept on the
pavement, done sundry jobs. I have been ill-
treated by people. I have seen so much bit-
terness in life. But I was determined to suc-
ceed. I educated myself the hard way and
became a journalist." Today he represents
an international news agency and is a very
successful journalist. He dotes on his six-
year-old daughter and ensures that she has a
good life. But past experiences have left a
terrible bitterness in him.
"Seeing an adult lose control can have a
devastating effect on the child, who learns
an unintended lesson: this is how to correct
others. When he or she grows up, they will
tend to behave the same way because they
think that is the way to discipline,". said Dr.
Ajit Bhide, a renowned child psychiatrist.
Recently an educated middle-class moth-
er, in a fit of rage, slashed and killed her five-
year-old child with a kitchen knife for mis-
pronouncing tlie word "forty." Similar reports
of mothers unwittingly killing a child in a fit
of anger are all-too frequent.
Instances of child beating appear to be
more pronounced in the lower strata of soci-
ety, commonly called the labor class. Besides
a socio-economical dimension of it, their
psycho-sensitivity is low and frustration lev-
els are high. "They work like machines. It's a
matter of survival. Talking psychology and
personality makes no sense to them.
Whether the family can have both their
meals in a day is wh1J.t matters. They simply
don't have the time or the environment to
thi.nk of the psychological development of
the ctuld, working so hard all day. Where do
ther have the time to sit and think?" notes
Mrs. Chakravarthy, a social worker.
During my interviews, many said today's
children are more prone to be disrespectful
and rude. Elders comment that today's chil-
dren lack diScipline, bhaya-bhakti as they
call it-literally, "fear-devotion." "Our elders
had a way of disciplining thrQugh devotion
and fear of God. When they said bhaya, it
did not mean fear of the father":or elder at
home, but of doing wrong, the dangers of
erring. How many parents today have the
moral courage to inculcate the values of
right and wrong in their chilclTen when most
of them lack this quality?" queries Simha.
"School discipline: Earlier this year, a case
was filed in the magistrate's court in New
Delhi against a teacher who beat a five-
year-old student. The child had developed
school phobia and a wide range of fears.
Such reports about school authorities acting
34 HINDUISM TODA·Y JU Y, 199 8
Punishment or torture? In some Hindu
homes parents have disciplined children by
putting hot cayenne pepper in their eyes.
high handedly and physically abusing young
children, some resulting in the death" of
these young ones, are plentiful. One teacher
made a young boy strip in front of his class-
mates and paraded him in s~hool for a silly
reason, not bringing his book. T.hj.s resulted
in the boys committing suicide. On Aprilz6,
1998, a Delhi teacher hit a 1z-year-old stu-
dent in the face with a blackboard eraser. It
shattered his glasses and blinded him in one
eye. The duster was intended for his neigh-
bor, who was reading a comic book. The
teacher was arrested, then released on bail.
My friend Aruna quit her job as Head Mis-
tress in a private school because the practice
there was to beat the children. "The princi-
pals complaiiit against me was that I was soft
with the children and that I had
to be tough. The teachers would
mercilessly b'ang the heads of
these little children against the
wall and beat them with canes.
They wanted me to do the same
thing. I protested and quit the
job," s~s Aruna.
"Teachers have to have emo=
tional control, logic and reason-
ing. Lack of control over their
emotions and the superiority
feeling that the teacher carries
with her makes her overpower
the children, behaving like a bul-
ly. The tea'Cher has no right to lift
even a fmger against a child, she
must use more mature fOrIns of
controlling children. Unfortunate- ,
ly, commitment, responsibility
and love for the work is not pre-
sent," explains Mrs. Indira Swa-
minathan, a senior educationist.
"In many schools the teachers
are paid a pittance, made to work
long hours and often treated shab-
bily by' the management. They
give expression to their anger to-
ward the management by treating
the child harshly. Thats unfair,"
says Mrs. Sreenivasa Murthy.
There is no law in India against
child abuse. A provision in the the Criminal
Procedure Code applies to such cases in the
form of Criminal Assault where a complaint
can be fileg before the police or a magis-
trate. It is extremely rare that parents use
this recourse for fear of reprisal by the
school against the chi~d. "These issues get
camouflaged. The statistics don't come out.
The schools maintain th~ child abuse does
not happen at all, but handling children vi-
olently is there in almost every school. It's a
known fact," says Mrs. Swamin~than.
"When parents take up the issue of ill
treatment towards the child by the teacher,
the teachers tend to humiliate the child in
the classroom. 'Ulis can have very serious
implications on' the CN.ild's psychology .and
p~rsonality. It can be more damaging than
physical abuse. We need a lot of laws to stop
child abuse in schools," says Dr. Bhide.
Laws are not essential for adults to behave
like adults ~ho are expected to be more ma-
ture and logical. What is needed is a reason-
able amount of common sense, a humane
outlook and a whole lot of honesty. I most successful way to earn your attention.
You need a license to drive a car, but not
to have children. There are no prescribed
ABCs about child rearing and precious little
training or preparation. Even though there
is concern here in India for beating children
in school, there is yet little attention given to
the home. It is time for that to change. -..I
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toddler to break your expensive vase, don't
Better Discipline put it on the table where she can reach it.
Wher:. children are older, control may re-
quire substantial change. If your teenager is
in ~ school known for violence or drugs,
Nonviolent methods require patience and move to another school district.
A misbehaving child can be told to take a
a firm belief, ~~Ifs
never right to hit a child~~ "time out," go to a quiet place until he is
ready to come back and behave appropriate-
ly. Some parents use a timer-
NeE PARENTS RESOLVE TO o~e minute for each year of
never hit their children, ' age-to enforce time out.
what are they to do? There "Grounding" teenagers has
are many specific methods, proven to be the best method .,
but first there's the matter of of discipline. When there is
time. If parents won't devote the misbehavior, 'the teen is not al~
necessary time to the massive job lowed to leave the house except
of raising children, all the best for school. He can't see his
methods are sure to fail. There's friends, play sports, go to
also the matter of the past, of movies, nothing but stay home.
how to change from hitting your This can be for a weekend for
children to not hitting them. The minor offenses, or a month or /1
recommended method .s to talk more for major ones.
to them, apologize fot hitting Have fun witn.your children,
them in the past and promise not spend your time with them.
to do it again. Ask for their for- They love to' know that they
giveness, and encourage them to bring you light and joy. Don't
do the flower penance [Publish- be so busy with job, friends,
er's Desk, page 11] to help them adUlt relatives, television, etc.
forgive you. Nonviolent parenting that you aren't there for your
is based on the concept of disci- children as they grow up.
pline, which means "to train," Hindu parents who just won't
rather than punishment, which stop hitting their children
means inflicting pain. should realize that even the
Modern nonviolent methods pro-spanking advocates in the
follow proven prlnciple~. Many West only allow for hitting
are common sense, others are with the open hand on the but-
more subtle and based on the tocks, just enough to make the
specIfic mental and emotional child cry, a maximum of four
development of the child at each strikes, and rarely-not daily or
age. Dr. Katharine C. Kersey of weekly. Even Manu Dharma
the Child Study Center, Old Do- Shastra forbids hitting a child
minion University in Virginia, " on the head, and in the US
has assembled one list which is . ~ slapping a child in the face can
excerpted and expanded here. ~ be a criminal offense. Swami
Positive reinforcement means Gentle love: Parent~ stay much closer to children they don't hit Satchidananda of Integral Yoga
to make' a big deal over responsi- Institute in Virginia, who en-
ble, considerate and appropriate behavior. certaip wrong thing, with the aim of slowly dorses corporal punishment, warns, "You .
"Catch your child being g00d and praise her extinguishing that behavior. The curious girl should not get angry an,.d do it. Wh~n you
for it." The flip side' is to ignore minor mis- read the notes, realized the problem and have no control over yourself, you have no
behavior that is not dangerous, destructive or stopped. right to touch the child." Were these simple
embarrassing. Children want your attention, Children should, within obvious'limits of guidelines followed, the amount and ferocity
and if the only way they can get it is by being safety, face the logical consequences of their of beating would drop precipitously.
mischievous, they will do so. You must re- actions. If he leaves for school and forgets Vast resources are available to the Hindu
verse this so that they learn doing good is the his coat, he.gets cold. If she doesn't do her parent who wants to el)d the cycle of physi-
homework, the teacher is displeased. There cal punishment of children. Especially the
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JULY , 1998 Hl'NDUISM TODAY 35
PARAPSYCHOLOGY
.
Kundalinl's Rise and Fall
Has the ancient Hindu scienc~ of enlightenment veered off cQurse?
ITH ITS CHARISMATIC F LARE ,
kundalini exploded into West-
ern consciousness in the early
1970s, primarily through the
dramatic accounts of Gopl Krish-
na and Siddha Yoga guru, Baba
MuKtananda. Intense interest was aroused,
and the Kundalini Research Foundation
(KRF) was begun in New York to promote
kundalini studies, education and awareness.
It has been nearly 30 years since that spon-
taneous awakening. Some say the field has
matured. Others dare to say it has stagnated.
Gene Kieffer, 72, President of the KRF, iIi.
speaking with HINDUISM TODAY, lamented,
"We've never been able to convince anyone
with money that this is worthwhile research.
In the early '70s, we" had a lot of scientists
interested. It was then a legitimate topic. But
in about 197.7 or '78, the scientists turned
off I think it was because of the thousands
and thousands of people running around
talking about their kundalini. There are so
many books out there which list the 'symp-
toms,' that anybody who has a neurosis, or is
a borderline schizophrenic-or is just having
mental problems and lost their job-can end
up convincing themselves that they 're on
Kundalini Shakti
Dancing with Siva: Hinduism's
Contemporary Catechism, (Himalayan
Academy Publications), defines
kundalini: "She who is coiled; serpent
power." The primordial cosmic energy
in every individual which, at first, lies
coiled like a serpent at the base of the
spine and eventually, through the
practice of yoga, rises up the sushumna
nadi. As it rises, the kundalini awakens
each successive chakra [see gatefold
and page 28]. Niroikalpa samadhi,
enlightenment, comes as it pierces
through the door of Brahman at the
core of the sahasrara and enters!
Kundalini shakti then returns to rest in
anyone of the seven chakras. Complete
liberation occurs when the kundalini
arrives back in the sahasrara and
remains coiled in this crown chakra.
36 HI ~ DUISM TODA;Y JU Y, 1998
Luminous leaders: (from top Mwn) Swami Chan-
drasekharanand Saraswati and Joan Shivarpitd Harri-
gan ofthe PKYC; The KRN board of directors for 1998:
(kneeling, left to right) Joan Harrigan,. Jean RoV-erts,
Jyoti Park, (standing) Stuart Sovatsky, Yvonne Kason,
Barbara Harris Whitfield, Lucette LeClerc, Russ Park,
Megan Nola:.n , Robert Turner, Jay Lynch, Bonnie
Greenwell; KRF's Gene Kieffer and wife, Aloe
EVOLUTIONS
ENTERED: Scientist S. Ramesh Babu into
the Guinness Book of World Records
for cutting a 12
:¥4-inch (32 cen-
timeter) cucum-
ber into 120,000
pieces in less z
z
u
than three hours
April 7 in Banga-
the spiritual path; that because lore, India.
they have these energies buzzing Ramesh, who
around their body, they~ve awak- practiced more Cucumber cutter
ened their 'kundalini and now are than a year for
superior to the run-of-the-mill this day, followed a complex set of dia- • I
mortals. Any intelligent person grams designed for the project. This
who meets up with these people I was his 13th world record.
thinks, 'If that's what kundalini is,
don't even come near'me!' I have SWORN IN: Four sannyasins from Uttar
30 years experience talking to Pradesh during recent elections for In- I
dia's Lok Sabha parliament. Fielded by
these people. I'm not just pulling
the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) they
/
ideas out of thin air."
Meanwhile, a diverse group of are: Sachchidanand Hari Sakshi, Ram
psychiatrists, psychologists, phys- Vilas Vedanti, Chlnmayanand and
ical thed pists and educators feel Aditya Nath. Sakshi and Chin-
that kundalini is forging ahead. mayanand were members of the previ-
They founded the Kundalini Re- ous Lok Sabha. Nath, of Gorakhnath
search Network as a separate Peeth, succeeded his guru as an MP.
group from the KRF in 1990.
The main focus of the KRN is to DIED: Wife of ex-Beatle Paul and fa-
maintain among its members a mous animals rights/vegetarian activist
heightened awareness of the kun- Linda McCartney, 56, in Arizona, April
dalini phenomena that occur 19, of cancer.
around the world and to docu- Paul's office
ment it as Scientifically as possible. asked that in-
The KRN consists of individual stead of sending
practitioner~ such as the Spiritu- flowers, people u
.
could make a do- "
al Emergence Network, in Santa
Cruz, Californ.la, and the Patan- nation to cancer
!;
... .
jali Kundalini Yoga Care center, in research or ani- 'o"
Tennesee, who administer to a mal welfare "
u
portion of the 1,000 .Qlus people charities, "or, Linda McCartney
who yearly report some form of best of all, the
kundalini awakening. KRNl; first tribute Linda herself would like best:
Vice President, Stuart Sovatsky, ,. ,- Go veggie." Linda developed her own
Ph.D ., told HINDUISM TODAY that ther mental problems, seizure, disorders or ing to people's attention now, and the deepest line of meat-free foods. She said, '1 love
the actual number of legitiqtate early symptoms of disease. This has been a elem~nt of yoga is kundalini." And despite animals, and I'm not gonna eat them."
cases could be higher, but most in major problem for- those l who are serious his dejection, Kieffer admits that "There are
the psychiatric community fail tQ, about spiritual practices, but are not with a genuine spritual masters with disciples who DIED: Self-styled
or are unable to, identify !he ba- teacher who is fanlliiar with the phenomena." really will sacrifice, but they are rare. The New Age "guru"
sic symptOIns. For that reason, he The enthusiasm of these young kundalini Hindu masters ... their tradition is sfill there. and author Fred-
teaches a graduate course on rec- evangelists stands in stark contrast to the That's why we would send the scholars to In- erick Lenz, by .,
ognizing kundalini awakening at disillusionment of veteran Kieffer. He re- dia. Where else are the archives?" apparent suicide "< ..
the California Institute for Inte-
gral Studies, which is attended by'
grets, "I've pushed so hard now that I've Just recer;'tly a "Body-Mind-Soul" center
gone over the brink, and I've stirred up a was estaqlished in Delli by Bharat Nirman
in New York,
April 14, at age "~ ..
other therapists. Bonnie Green- hornets nest of pseudo playerS. It's a tragedy, ·to teach about kundalini. M.e. Bhandari of 48. Calling him- N
.,..JZ
well, a transpersonal psychother- and I don't think it will ever come back to Mystic India, Calcutta, told HINDUISM To- self Zen Master
apist' co-founder of the KRN and where it was. There are tao many teachers, DAY that serious research in India is p eing Rama, Lenz re- Frederick Lenz
teacher at ClIS, explains, "When and it is now an industry." done in four places: by Swamy Vidyanandji, cruited followers
there is no cultural paradigm for But Sovatsky has higher hopes. He specu- of Bharat Nirman, New Delli; Dr. ~inanath since 1980, telling them he had led
such events, those who are evalu- lates, "In the nexj 10-20 years, more people Rai, Y6ga Research Institute, Lucknow; the several lives and was one of only 12
ated by therapists and doctors are in the West will be experimenting with it, Theosophical Society in Chennai and Dr. enlightened beings on Earth. He was
forced into a medical model. like they did with meditation and yoga. The H.R. Nagendra of the Vivekananda Kendra criticized as exploitive of his students.
They are considered to have ei- deeper elements of those practices are com- Yoga Research Institute in Bangalore. . .
\ JUL Y, 199 8 HINDUISM TODAY 37
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 l.emurian Scrolls
MUSIC YOUTH

Rhythmic Yo Dude, You'rct Rude!

Gymnasts A h:ip handbook f01;: etiquette-c~allenged teens

Indian drum maestros

, LEX J. PACKER OPENS HIS WITTY YET
wise, irreverent and very relevant
eating; etc.( 9. Give people a firm hand-
shake. 10. Have compassion towards others.
"band together in . book, How Rude, The Teenagers' Here is how Packer teaches teens to re-
to Good Manners, Proper Be- ceive gifts (after he has instructed them in
celebration of their art havior, and Not Grossing People Out, with all the goofs and skills of gift giving): "There AllltUIU"ed. datI"fOlJVl1 m'$lilll. allIII1tI.lIntOkS ~ 'CIf.arth
historical tidbits on manners: "The evolution are two ways to' receive a present: 1. with lrom lbe ~ raUlIoAs 01 ytIU. ud lbe mug)e:s Ia4 \1\ Cfto
lUI", em l16Wls maured 111.10 l'1'*r ultimate aest\nv _no t)Mnlfl,
of table manners can be quite fascinating. great pleasure, or 2. with greater pleasure.
NLY IN INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC For example, when forks were first used for Response No. 1 is for gifts you don't particu-
have percussionists so successfullyere- u eating in Tuscany in the 11TH century, they larly like. It involves a warm smile, a look of
ated a place for themselves as solo p were condemned by the clergy. This was be- delight and surprise, and expressions of
artists. ,While in the West, Alia Rakha ::;,--_~~_ _ _-,-~~_ _ _ _ _~_...;;;c.._ _ _~~~_ _ _~~~_ _ _ _---! cause food was seen as a gift from God. gratitude such as: 'Thank you so much.' 'I'm Lemurian Scrolls is a remarkable
and Zakir Hussain first brought the tabla Tempo duo: Santoorist Tarun Bhattacharya (right) accompanies Bikmm Ghosh on tabla going to enjoy reading it.' 'This
center stage, now new fast fingers and ,. will look so nice in my room.' 'I'll account of mankinds journey to
pounding palms have secured the spotlight. tion of the rhythmical systems of India's punch to recordings of santoorist Tarun sure stay warm in these.' For gifts i
And the "other In<llan drum," the carnatic North and South. While the text details the Bhattacharya. Returning the favor on Talk- you do . like, use response #2. Earth four million years ago and of
mrdangam, is also being honored. sophistication of the drums and Indian tala, ing Tabla, Bhattacharya j6ins Ghosh on one Wear an ear-to-ear grin. Let yom-
Bikram Ghosh is the latest welcome addi- musical time, these discs were never meant track. We would have enjoyed more such jaw fall open and your eyes bug the ensuing experiences and chal-
tion to the clique of solo percussion artists. to be academic. The greatest lessons are duets, but the character and intent of this out. Remain speechless for a sec-
His 1997 recording, Talking Tabla, has been taught by sound example. Ghosh and CD set is different. A variety of styles and ond or two as words fail you. Run lenges w e faced. Using the mysti-
re-released in a two-CD set called The Lan- Sankaran display impressive dexterity and instrumentations are presented in order to around the room a few times. Do
guage of Rhyt~m, (Music of the World, astute musicianship. But still, Ghosq.remains demonstrate: still only partially, the wide dy- cartwheels. Say, 'I can't believe it' cal siddhi of claiNoyance, Satguru
US$26.9.5). In addition to Bikram's best, the humble..- In a spare moment during an April namic range of the drunIffiers and music. and 'Oh, wow!' over and over
set includes the solo CD of mrdangam mae- US tour with Ravi Shankar, he told HINDUISM Ghosh says of his art, "When we sit with while you try to regain control of Sivaya Subramuniyaswami has
stro Trichy Sankaran [see A Master's in TODAY, "It is the blessings of the gurus which our instrument, we take off our shoes. We • your conscious mind. Then let
Rhythm, May, 1997'], as well as a 26-page gives you success. Without their guidance, I pray, touch the feet of the guru and then be- loose a torrent of thanks: 'This is transcribed ancient akashic records
booklet introducing the history, construction would not have been able to do anything." gin playing. It is a form of prayer." .. ;0-0-0-0-0 fabulous! ' 'I've wanted
and theories of performance of both drums. Ghosh is known for his years of work with IlUSIC OF THE WORLD, POST OFFICE BOX 3620 , one of these forever and ever!' which preseNe the story of our
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You'll notice that these responses evolution from spiritual bodies of
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Does Clothing Matter? themselves, who were largely
uninspired. Some had given
al clothing, Tarlo discovered,
has become the fashion for not
tude. They make the person who
gave you the present feel like giv-
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icance of the embroidery tra-
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keen than the women weavers
up wearing traditional clothing
altogether and others, embar-
rassed by its backward conno-
tations, seemed eager to dis-
pense with the garments in
favor of more modern wear. As
Tarlo points out, "There was
something slightly farcical
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cance of a textile tradition that
the villagers themselves were
keen to put behind them."
Thus began a study into the
attitudes behind the clothes
and controversies smoldering
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including issues of womens
modesty and caste moderniza-
tion. Just how far can one
move away from the estab-
lished traditional clothing and
be accepted by society?
Coming full circle, tradition-
only a certain segment of Indi-
an society, but for Westerners
as well. Dressing convincingly
as Gujarati or Rajasthani peas-
ants, with only their make-up
betraying urban roots, ethnic
chic has become a fashion
statement.
The irony has not been lost
on the village peoples. While
beholding a glittery fashion
show in the town of Hauz
Khas, the headman opines,
"Previously people were look-
ing down on us because we
were wearing dhotis and look-
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HEALING
Consequences of
Corporal Punishment
Even a single slap can cause significant
injuries" leave alone the psychological fallout
B Y D E V A NAN D A TAN D A- v AN, M. D.
N EMERGENCY ROOMS
across the US it's fairly
common for young people
to be admitted in a bat-
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stages of healing. But many
abused children never reach
the hospital. They are often
unattended and not discov-
ered until symptoms of such
ferocity appear that they are
taken to a doctor. Parents feel
their abuse is not very seri-
ous; however, some children
have suffered lifelong consequences be-
cause of abuse. Here are some of the com-
mon and frightful complications.
Slapping the face may injure the eye
from pressure applied. A common result is
retinal detachment, which if unrecognized
may produce permlillent blindness. There
may also be rupture of the eardrum., lead-
ing to permanent deafness or decreased
hearing. The many small bones in the face
are delicate and may be fractured, leading
to problems with the sinuses, nose and
teeth. Breathing may be impaired.
Rapping the skull with ones knuckles
often ruptures small vessels surrounding
the brain. A hematome (blood clot) may
occur and may also be associated with a
blockage of cerebral vessels, l~ading to
more or less permanent infringements of
the brain. Due to external pressl[re on the
brain (from hematomas that increase in
size), the brain's nerve pathways are ham-
pered in their normal workin~, leading to
bizarre, but typical, symptoms. Head in-
jm:ies may also result in cervical spine
tra:uma. Any fracture or subluxation (par-
tial bone dislocation) at this level is serious.
If one is hit upon the chest (anterior)
with great force, the heart may rupture, of
cour.se resulting in rapid death unless rec-
44 HINDUISM TODAY JU ~ Y , 1998
ognized almost at once.
Lesser trauma to the chest
may produce rib fractures.
The fracture's pointed edge
may puncture the pleura
(covering the lungs) witlrthe
result that the lung may col-
lapse, impairing respiration.
Trauma to the chest and
upper lumbar area may pro-
duce a hematoma or infrac-
tion of the kidneys. A blow
can injure the ureter (duct
from kidney to urinary blad-
der) to an extent that it is
blocked, leading to perma-
nent kidney disease. . neglect, there may be marked psychologi-
A child is usually reluctant to name the
abuser. This may be partially due to a mis-
placed loyalty to parents or fear of further
retribution. The US has social agencies to
look after all childrens' well being. In cases
of habitual abuse, children may be taken
from the parents. Once, social w~rkers
installed a video camera in a boy's reom to
have evidence. After several weeks of sur-
veillance, it ~as found the boy was abused ·
by an older sib4Pg out of jealousy and a
need for attention. So it is not always the
parents, foster parents, relative or such.
Many abused children have such mental
trauma that they proceed into a neurosis or
even a psychosis. They quickly develop a
severe inferiority complex and "separation"
from their true self Even thpugh they may
be brought through this phase wiSh coun-
seling and true loving care, there is always
some residue making them lead a socio-
paths life. This is an extreme price to pay
for doing only "what all children do."
Failure to thrive: This term describes the
condition of a child who is underdeveloped
physically, mentally or emotionally. "Organ-
ic" failure to thrive is a result of lack of
maternal affection, malnutrition, disease or
injury and is ·seen mostly in very young
children. "Nonorganic" failure to thrive is a
more complex disorder found in older chil-
dren. Studies have showh. that when a
home becomes abusive or dysfunctional,
the childs development will slow down.
During the years and months leading up to
a messy divorce, for example, the child's
height and weight may cease to increase at a
normal rate. Daily beating and berating can .
similarly result in failure to thrive. The com-
promised future development may produce
subnormal mentalities and mutilated bodies.
In the extreme situation, the child will
be below average height for his age and
birth weight; thin; even emaciated.; potbel-
ly; suffering from heatlaches, diarrhea;
"tension and misery; with an apathetic and
withdrawn demeanor, prone to short tem-
per tantrums, insensitivity to pain, insom-
nia and disrupted sleep, so that they roam
the house at night, probably searching for
food; eating and drinking inappropriate
substances, such as things from the garbage
can. When a physician sees several of these
qualities in a child, he should investigate
the family situation and, if necessary, rec-
ommend counsellirlg.
If the infant and younger child does not
receive enough personal attention, cud-
dling, holding, kissing and general fulfill-
ment of his needs, he is likely to have
psychological changes that will also induce
changes in the gastrointestinal system, so
that a state of malnutrition begins. If a
factor of physical abuse is added to this
cal changes such as depression, lack of in-
terest in games, inability to digest food,
antagonistic behavior lYld even changes in
the mentality, as evidenced by changes in
the intelligence quotient. The personality
changes seem to bring about more parental
abuse as the child becomes older.
A family whose children fail to, thrive
lacks communication and interaction be-
tween its members, parental bonding, nur-
turing and attachment. The child responds
.in like kind, frequently with feeding and
behavioral problems. Even in otherwise,
w.ell-to-do families, failure to thrive may be
seen in greater or lesser degree as a resul .
of abusive corporal punishment and the
resulting disruption to the child's being.
You may'say "my father beat me as a
child and I had no serious consequenc~s."
This may be true, but doesn't guarantee
there will be no lasting effects on the body,'
and-more importantly-the mind. We are
.
thankful that not all parents are abusers.
DR. TANDAVAN, 78, retired nuclearphysi-
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Chicago, where he specializes in alternative
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as a doctor." The advantages were s~bstan­
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Most US states have been loathe to license
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Licensing is, at heart, a political process,
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AYURVEDA from the American medical establishment.
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gained legitimate status. As of 1996, 11
states regulate the practice of acupuncture
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ther, who lives in the US, brought him from da and Naturopathic Medical Clinic in Chopra and organizations such as Mahar-
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Hindu Heritage Endowment

.1997 ANNUAL , REPORT ' Statement ofIncome and Expenses, Year Ending December 31,1997
(In US dollars, rounded to nearest dollar.)
THE YEAR IN REVI:t;W
INCOME
In 1997, the most visible change for Hindu Heritage Endowment was the transfOrmation from a Contributions $232,005
small newsletter format to the beautiful three-page spread that now appears each month in ' Dividend and Interest Income 140,266
HINDUI..5M TODAY. The establishment of a Pooled Income Bund and no-fee estate planning in part- TOTAL REVENUES 372,272
nership with First Hawaiian Bank ·added key donor options. '
EXPENSES
The strength of !?he US dollar, was one of tJ::te big stories of the.year, emphasizing the merits of
Charitable Grants 118,180
our strategy of keeping endowment funds in the relatively stable political and economic climate of Advertising and Promotion 4,981
the United States; We also changed inve~tment managers, and welcome the trust a~d investm,ent Amortization Expense 1,956
team of Firs~ Hawaiian Banl< who meet with us regularly as advisors of our Po oded 'Income Fund. Office Expenses 14,620
Much of our success centered around the beneficiaries of our grants, which included orphalls TOTAL EXPENSES 139,738
\n war-torn Sri Lanka and two ancient temples in India, still actively serving the spiritual needs of
thousands of Hindus. Our grants placed free books on Hinduism in more than 500 libraries around Excess of Income over Expenses Before 232,534
the world qnd ·gave an honorarium to the Hinduism Today Hindu ofi:he Year. Hundreds of copies Investment Activity
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of HINDUISM TODAY were sent out free of charge to sadhus and swamis around, the world each
m~nth. In addition, sevepl new endowment funds w.ere established during the year which will
Gain (Loss) on Sales ofInvestments - Stocks
Gain (Loss) on Sales ofInvestments - Bonds
60,425
7,252
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broaden the distribution of grants in future years. The true beneficiaries of our programs were the
many generous donors. The good merit,. the feelings of love and satisfaction that result from giving Increase (Decrease) in Unrealized Appreciation of Stocks 15,137
without tl'\,\ught' of reward are truly the most valuable of benefits which will stay with each indi- Increase (Decrease) in Unrealized Appreciation of Bonds 4,935
vidual, not only the rest of this life, but into futUre lives as well. We thank you all for strengthening
Hindu Dharma in modern times. Excess of Income over Expenses 320,284

Total Assets at Market Value, Beginning of Year $2,031,824

Total Assets at Market Value, End of Year $2,352,108
A LIST OF CURRENT ENDOWMENTS WITH FUND TOTALS
ENDOWMENTS SUPPORTING HINDU 047. Kaithady -?aiva Children's Home: faffna, Sri Lanka.
TEMPLES AROUND THE WORLD $5,000.00 $120,000.00 -
002. Iraivan Temple En"dowment: Kauai, Hawaii, USA $2,500,000.00
048. Sri Ramakrishna Sarada Sevashram: Point Pedro, Sri
$810,650.35. Lanka. $5,000.00. $2,250,000.00 -
011. Iyarappan Temple Trust: Thiruvaiyaru, Tamil Nadu, '
, India. $5,374.68. ENDOWMENTS SUPPORTING $2,000,000.00 - $100,000.00 -
EDUCATIONAL INSTITU'FIONS OR PROGRAMS
003. Kauai Aadheenam Annual Archana Fund: Kauai, Hawaii, 016. Malaysian Hindu Youth Educational Trust: Malay~\a. $1,750,000.00 -
USA. $42,2,88.79. ' $9,756.61.
ENDOWMENTS DEDICATED TO $1,500,000.00
MEMORIAL AND FAMILY ENDOWMENTS
PUBLISHING HINDU BOOKS OR JOURNALS- 010. Nadesan Family Lord Murugan Shum Fund: Kauai, 1995 1996 1997
·004. Hinduism Today Distribution Fund: Kauai, Hawaii, USA. Hawaii, USA. $12,852.46. Assets at Market Value Total Grants by Year
$274,954.08.
025. Sundari Pe.urnan Memorial Scholarship Fund: Kauai,
005. Hindu Businessmen's Association Trust: Kauai, Hawaii, Ha}Vaii, USA. $5,961.58.
USA. $120,16{l.17.
037. AShanmugam Family Fund (Ipoh): Tamil Nadu, India. INVESTMENT MANAGERS AND CONSULTANTS: Franklin Management Inc.; First Hawaiian Bank,
ENDOWMENTS SUPPORTING _ $5,290.99.
WORJ,D HINDU RELIGIOUS LEADERS ,038. The William E. Daniels Endowment for Hindu Religious Trust & Investment Division; Brand.es ~~vestment Partners, Inc.; Pacific Century Trust (Bank of
'007. Hindu of t.l~ Year Fund: Kauai, Hawaii, USA. $7,033.87. Art and Artifacts: Kauai, Hawaii, USA. $5,290.99. Hawaii); Alvin G. Buchignani, Esq., attorney; and Na1:han Palani, CPA. HHE is a member of the .
006. Kailasa Peetham Gift Fund: Kauai, Hawaii, USA. Council on Foundations, an association of 1,500 foundations which interprets relevant law, inter-
$134,037.71. FUNDS IN THE PROCESS OF FORMATION
(ENDOWMENTS ACTIVATE AT 05$5,000) national and domestic, and accounting, management and investment principles.
ENDOWMENTS SUPPORTING 018. Sri Siva Subtamaniya Swami Devasthanam 'lirust: Fiji.
,HINDU MONASTIC COMMUNITIES
001. Kauai Aadheenam Monastic Endowment: Kauai, Hawaii, 020. Hinduism Today Editorial Trust USA
021. Vishwamata Gayatri Trust Fund: India
HINDU HERITAGE ENDOWMENT
USA. $724,573.01. .
KAUAI'S HINDU MONASTERY
014. Sri Subramuniya Ashram Scholarship Fund: Kauai, 024. Jeyanandarajan Faroily Fund: Sri Lanka.
Hawaii, USA. $6,181.~8 . . :. . 031. Panchamukha Ganapati Endowment Mauritius. 107 Kaholalele Road
009. Mathavasi Medical Fund: Kauai, Hawaii, USA.
$17,810.07.
032. Kalakshetra Scholarship Fund: India. , " Kapaa, Hawaii, 96746-9304 USA
Tel: (800) 890-1008, Ext. 235 .
033. Tmunular Sannidhi Preservation Fund: India
ENDOWMENTS SUP~ORTING Outside US: (808.) 822-3152, Ext. 235
HIND,U SOCIAL SERVICE PROGRAMS 036. Somnath Te:Ople Trust: Gujjarat, India. . I
012. Ifhirunavukkarasu Nayanar Gurul\ulam Fund: Amparai 039 Nepal Kumari Goddess Educational Trust Nepal Fax: (808) 822-4351
District (Hindu Orphanage Fund), Sri I;,anka. $19,921.43. 043. Saivite Hindu Scriptures Fund for the Visually Impaired: India E-mail: hhe@hindu.org
022. Hindu Orphanage Fund: Worldwide. $1,356 )~ · ( Plus ))46 Puri Monateries Fund: Puri, Orissa, India.
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