Welcome to Eternal Path Musings, a newsletter geared towards content that educates, informs, and inspires the Modern Hindu!
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This week we feature: short reads (ornamental Hinduism, Hinduism from a European lens, American schools and caste) and an aesthetic!
Reading Highlights: Short Reads
📚 Political blogger and Twitter celebrity Indian Bronson has an illuminating thread about the need for Hindus to treat Hinduism as a source of values rather than an ornamental costume over a Westernized mind. Single-page link here.
📚 The Hindoo History Substack has a fantastic new post titled “The ‘Hindoo’ and the Enlightenment” on the way that Westerners influenced by the European enlightenment viewed Hinduism
📚 A parent involved in CoHNA (who we highlighted in Week 24) has a great article out on how the teaching of Hinduism in American schools leads to kids internalizing bizarre misrepresentations of Indian caste dynamics.
📚 Below is a great thread from a Southeast Asian Hindu on the use of “Om Shanti” in times of bereavement - single page version available here.