The WHY of Choosing Panikkar for my Paper

While I was in the process of choosing a topic for my dissertation, during the Hermeneutics course taken by Rev. Fr Ivo Coelho SDB I was reading a book Myth, Faith and Hermeneutics (1979) by Raimon Panikkar that quite fascinated me. During my personal prayer while flipping through the pages of ‘In Dialogue with the Lord’ (SDB Prayer Book) I came across some deep reflections on God by Raimundo Panikkar and my mind was enraptured by his thinking and I began reading one of his books The Experience of God (2006). Later, during the course on Bhagavad Gita taken by Rev. Fr A.U. Jose, I began to read The Unknown Christ of Hinduism (1968) and The Vedic Experience: Mantramañjarī (1977). I then realized that throughout his writings, there was one word constantly occurring, though not so visible, namely, ‘dialogue.’ All this made me choose Panikkar as the author and the aspect of dialogue in forte in Panikkar’s writings as the topic for my dissertation.