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        In section I of this book, there are nine essays by Pandita Indrani Rampersad, devoted to the paraphrasing of RISA LILA : Wendy's Child Syndrome, a landmark essay by Rajiv Malhotra, published on an Indian-American web magazine in September 2002. In this essay, Rajiv Malhotra presented spectacular examples of unfounded and unscientific Hinduphobia (a brilliantly generic term coined by Rajiv Malhotra) in the work of certain American scholars in the area of religious studies and related academic fields. He examined and questioned the training and expertise of some self-proclaimed and peer-acknowledged Western scholars, particularly their ability to translate Indian languages (specially Sanskrit) into English. He also examined the dubious, prejudiced and many times even jaundiced use of psychoanalysis and other Eurocentric theories to analyse indic categories and conditions and more specially Indian culture. Rajiv Malhotra clearly proved that there are no true Outsiders involved in this effort - because those who stand Outside Hinduism remain firmly rooted in their own ideologies, institutions and cultures. There is no such thing as what is called rigorous academic objectivity in these studies by American academicians who always take markedly anti-Hindu ideological stances and postures.

        In chapter three, we can see a detailed examination of the writings of a closed coterie of award-winning scholars who have declared Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (to be referred to hereafter as Ramakrishna), to be a sexually disturbed and abusive homosexual. They also claim with authority to have 'academically proved and established' that Ramakrishna was a child molester, and one who also forced homosexual activities on Swami Vivekananda. They consider Ramakrishna's mystical experiences and those of other Indian mystics in general as pathological sexual symptoms and conditions which are badly in need of psychoanalysis.

        Under the guidance of a known Hindu-baiter called Wendy Deniger of the University of Chicago, Jeffrey Kripal did his Ph.D dissertation on Sri Ramakrishna. His perverted pornographic ideas about Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda which I have presented above were part of this Ph.D thesis. Later a book based on this thesis was published under the title Kali's Child. It won the First Book Award from the American Academy of Religion (AAR), an organisation in which Wendy Deniger and her colleagues hold powerful positions. Kripal soon landed a job at Harvard, which was followed by a prestigious academic chair at Rice University at a very early stage in his career. The popular and prestigious source of reference, Encyclopedia Britannica, listed Kripal's book as its top choice for learning about Sri Ramakrishna. Pandita Indrani Rampersad has rightly argued that even a shoddily researched and hastily peer-reviewed book of this kind, if accepted and promoted by a strongly organised academic establishment, can swiftly become authoritative. To quote her words in this context: 'This is dangerous, especially when the readership consists largely of persons who are ignorant about the tradition, and worse still, when the readers have biblical or race-based stereotypes passed on through mythical images of folklore 'Others.'
 

The book launch at the India Habitat Centre, Delhi, on July 2, 2007. The doyen of Indological studies Dr Kapila Vatsyayan, (Rajya Sabha MP) was the chief guest and released the book ‘Invading the Sacred, An Analysis of Hinduism Studies in America.'

        Swami Tyagananda gave a fitting rejoinder to Jeffrey Kripal in this manner: 'None of the symptoms enumerated in the 'literature on sexual trauma' is present in Ramakrishna's life. But since Kripal has approached his subject with a predetermined verdict, he resorts to specious reasoning in order to come up with the judgement he has in mind. Ramakrishna has 'pronounced homosexual tendencies,' ergo he must have suffered childhood sexual trauma, ergo he must re-enact the traumatic events. This exercise in weak-link logic is reminiscent of Kangaroo courts where the prisoner is convicted first and then the 'EVIDENCE' is manufactured at a more convenient time.'

        Thus anyone can see that these scholars wedded to hair-splitting analysis of obscenity and vulgarity rooted in sex, consider their pornographic work as belonging to the field of Religious Studies which definitely it is not. As a practicing Hindu with no pseudo (!) claims whatsoever to any intellectual distinction in any field, I would like to ask these 'mischievous' scholars as to whether they would come forward to accuse Christian Saints like Saint Benedict of Narsia, Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Nicholas of Myra, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint Bernadette of Lourdes and others of pathological sexual symptoms noticed or displayed by them towards their followers and disciples.

        These academically fraudulent and 'politically' active scholars by applying the principles of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) to the study of Indian Religions (more specially Hinduism) where they are totally irrelevant and inapplicable, have clearly shown that they themselves are dangerous psychopaths who can only be described as ACADEMIC HITLERS and INTELLECTUAL STALINS passionately trying to create a new field of MULTIDISCIPLINARY NAZIDOM totally dedicated to the wholesale destruction of all non-Christian religions / cultures in general and Hinduism / Hindu culture in particular. Like Osama Bin Laden promoting Islamic terrorism in different parts of the world including America, these pseudo-scholars and anti-Indian 'intellectual' terrorists are letting loose a continuous barrage of salvos against Hinduism and Hindu culture with continuous and lavish financial backing from the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and several American universities. This luridly bizarre drama has been fully documented and explained with facts and figures in this book under review.

        Sarah Caldwell, another member of Religion in South Asia (RISA), was given the prestigious Robert Stoller Award for her scholarship on the Hindu Goddess. I am giving below a long excerpt from her paper 'The Blood Thirsty Tongue and the Self-feeding Breast: Homosexual Fellatio Fantasy in the South Indian Ritual Tradition,' for which she was given an award by her largely Western peers.

        The essential rituals of the Bhagavati cult all point to the aggressive and fatal erotic drinking of the male by the female and the infamous orgy of blood sacrifice of male genitals at the Kodungallur Bhagavati temple... Following Freud, such analyses stress the father-son polarity of the oedipal conflict as the central trauma seeking expression.

        Yesterday I had concluded with the words of Mark Twain. Today I would like to invite the kind attention of Wendy Doniger, Jeffrey Kripal and Sara Carldwell and others belonging to the anti-Indian and anti-Hindu brigade in America to the following words of Will Durant (1885-1981), a famous American historian of World Civilisations: 'India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: She was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.'

        I have no doubt that this trio of fraudulent 'scholars' would be funded by the American Academy of Religion (AAR) through RISA to subject Will Durant to the same detailed and debauched psychoanalytical treatment through which Sri Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, the Gods and Goddesses of Hinduism were put through.