" If we wish to understand Indian thought, we must return to its sources, that is, to the great civilization that preceded the arrival of the Aryans, which has continued to the present time and of which the Shaiva religion, the cosmological theory called Sâmkhyä, the practices of Yogä, as well as the bases of what we consider to be the Hindu philosophy, are part. "

― Alain Daniélou , While the Gods Play: Shaiva Oracles and Predictions on the Cycles of History and the Destiny of Mankind