The hallmark of the western thought that culminated in modern science is naturalism and empiricism. In naturalism, no other appeal except to the material world is made as a pointer to causality. In empiricism, all forms of knowledge claims are grounded in an appeal to demonstrable consequence at the level of experiences of the five senses. Science, having pushed through the viability and desirability of this agenda through its prodigious successes in technology, the same limited view has penetrated all other fields of modern study, be it  chemistry, economy, psychology, sociology or any other field of study.

“At a time when material science predominates all subjects—including the tenets of religion—it would be enlivening to see the principles of the eternal religion of man from the viewpoint of the modern scientist.  Even Dr. S. Radhakrishnan admitted at a world religion conference that religion will not be accepted in modern civilization if it is not accepted from a scientific point of view.”

Thus the first and foremost challenge that the university-project obliges us to face is the ability to present the Indian heritage knowledge within this empirico-naturalistic framework in a contemporary manner without absolutely any loss of integrity of the underlying spiritual perspective. This is an entirely contemporary rendering of the basic Bhagavata ontology concerning the natural world – Prakriti, Purusha, Jiva, Kala and Karma. The proposed University  should decode Bhagavata