Śūnya-Kathā or Interplay of Being and Nothingness

Devising means of expressing _nothingness_ comprises a significant part of global history of ideas. Though representing _nothingness_ is having an underlying oxymoronic tone, the concept of _śūnya_ or _nirākāra_ can still be considered as one of the primordial archetypes of human thought process which continued to express itself in different ways in mathematics, philosophy as well as in different psycho- somatic variants. Here we will give a brief outline of the development of understanding of _śūnya_ in different Indian traditions and the ways one can be engagedtoday with these from modern logical and empirical perspective.