Introduction

Hello all,

First of all apologies, for the delay. Having grown up as a kid around various practices and customes unique to this land with several religious and spiritual dimensions to it, I would like to explore the underlying philosophies of these practices. Hence my work in the area in a way will focus on understanding these aspects, weather these practices are just mere traditional customs or but more worthwhile deeds benefiting one and all. For this I would like to get my self equipped with the substantial knowledge as to advocate the cause. For this I beleive that Chinthana is the best platform for me to start of with my ideas of going about this process. In the longer run I would like to work for the similar purpose with better clarity when it comes my vision and direction. I would like to go back to the ancient scriptures and understand the underlying essences of the work not from mere intrepretations alone but to rework on the frame not just on those provided by these previous works alone.This understanding I believe would help us to bring out these philosophies confined within boundaries without reaching out to the mankind beyond aspects like religion, caste etc. This would not be entirely possible for the time being as I m not qualified enough to carry out this process. In this dream project of mine I might not be able to work on everything i wish to, but would like to produce quality in whatever, be it single piece of research I don t mind dedicating my lifetime for the cause. This in turn I believe would make us think and look at things differently facilitating more research of the kind. Chinthana is a platform for me, not only to put across my ideas but more than that to learn from like minded people with similar interests in understanding the thoughts from the roots our ancestors. In this process I hope good quality knowledge is generated from the interactions with one another. I hope to learn and acquire knowledge from all my friends.As I look up to this exciting journey with all you guys , with hope and a lot of expectations I would like to wish all my fellow contributors all the best with their efforts to understand ' Indian Thought- Cinthana'.