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What Enslaves a Hindu Mind?

Mind alone is the cause of both bondage and liberation. - Amritabindu Upanishad, Verse 2 Hiuen Tsang (Xuanzang) in his "journey to the west" between 629 CE and 645 CE referred to India as ' Yin-tu ' which  means moon (in Sanskrit). Dharampal in his book 'A Beautiful Tree' describes various British territories like Bengal, Bihar, Madras, Punjab, and others that "there is hardly a village, great or small, throughout our territories, in which there is not at least one school, and in larger villages more." And the 1830s, the British began the survey of India to implement policies that "established some affinity of outlook and belief between the rules and the rule" whether it was introducing a new "Christian" education policy or opening up India to evangelical missionaries for extending Christian 'light' and 'knowledge' (Page 16, The Beautiful Tree, Dharampal)   Since ancient times travelers, monks, seers, and seekers ...