Trying to understand Hindu thought from top to bottom is like standing outside in the middle of a heavy storm and trying to balance raindrops in a spoon. Raindrops are single drops of water, but they lose their form very quickly, are hard to tell apart from each other, and they even evaporate within a few hours to soon become new raindrops.

The first step to discovering value in Hindu thought consists of not even trying to understand it.

According to scholar Troy Wilson Organ, this approach to religion is not familiar to Westerners, who may find Hindu thinking "to be scholastic, unrealistic, dreamy, and fuzzy." He adds that "Things do not appear to be presented in sharp focus; rather they seem to blend into each other."

Come explore how the wide array of dieties in the Hindu religion seem to correspond with the extended families of Indian society.