The modern saiva works deal with the areas like thirumurai studies, Tamil literary aspects, the musical aspects, bakthi aspects and some on the life style . Some do concentrate on the historical background of saivism. The core metaphysical aspects called as saivasiddhantham-are often not available to English readers. Knowledge of good Tamil for the understanding of the poetry style of sastra texts have been an obstacle. There is a need for English works without the poetic style. However the terminologies are still very hard and their translations are yet not complete. Knowledge of Sanskrit also may be useful in understanding the agamic lexican, as most of them are derived from them. A scientific study of the philosophy of the saiva doctrines especially the core philosophy is my aim. The saiva schools discusses about a wide range of issues like, ontology, cosmology, phenomenology, epistemology, logic, psycho-analysis, psychotherapy, physiology, medicine and ethics. Traditional way to describe them would be to take up the three core issues of the saivite ontology that are the pathi, pasu and pasam. However I have taken up a different route of taking the psychlogical analysis of the core issues. Logical inferences can be made from studying religious texts. They have the same psycho-analytic value. This particular method is known as hermeneutics. It is accepted as a science. I have also tried in a minimal way to compare with the other Indian philosophies and the western philosophies. Besides I have also attempted to describe the Saiva siddhantham from the psychology angle. It is to be noted these Saiva texts are treasure troves of eastern psychotherapy and depth psychology.
Modern concepts in the philosophy of mind are compared with the Saiva schools in a small way. These issues need to be studied and more elaborate works that deals them thoroughly have to written. The hidden facts must be brought to the light of the modern world. Nevertheless I have no ambition of breaking open any new path in the time tested concepts of siddhantham. But I am intent upon taking a perilous journey, on the roads less travelled, between the Hindu mysticism and the western logical positivism. The book is divided into eight parts. The first part deals with the historical aspects and the next one on the psychological aspects. The third part deals with the phenomenology in reference to thirumanthiram. The fourth part deals with the core metaphysical issues. The fifth one on the cosmological that is about theories of creation and universe. The sixth part deals with the medical aspects and the seventh part with the fundamentals of eastern psychotherapy. The eighth part deals with the major philosophers and their theories of hermeneutics. There is a small list of primary and secondary texts of siddhantham at the end.