The publication of this first issue of the BAPS Swaminarayan Research Journal begins an exciting new chapter for the BAPS Swaminarayan Research Institute at Swaminarayan Akshardham, New Delhi. By providing a space for the expression of quality, multi-disciplinary scholarship, this Journal furthers the institute’s interest in encouraging academic investigation on Indian thought. The Journal intends to publish the most insightful, profound, practical, and ground-breaking scholarship concerning a wide variety of discipline-specific learning, including everything from music to poetry, creative writing, visual arts, architecture, agriculture, performing arts, philosophy, Sanskrit, Indian vernacular languages, sacred texts, philology, linguistics, Indian darśanas, management, history, medicine, computer technology, print and electronic publishing, foreign languages, cinematography, and even culinary studies as they pertain to Indian thought.