If you want to be a thinker, highest thinker, think in terms of Bhagavatam or Bhagavad- gita. Have input from Gita and Bhagavatam, you will be the best thinker, the topmost thinker of this world.
Makra Sankranti is also a day of transition of our Bhakti-from Sadhna Bhakti to Bhava Bhakti to prema Bhakti. We have to keep a close watch on this transition.
We have never seen an acarya as exalted as Srila Prabhupada who has made all arrangements to transfer us from this eternally miserable material world to our eternally transcendental real home.