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Post by Ainz_Ooal_Gown on Jul 8, 2017 4:44:07 GMT
Then even nothingness was not, nor existence, There was no air then, nor the heavens beyond it. What covered it? Where was it? In whose keeping? Was there then cosmic water, in depths unfathomed?
Then there was neither death nor immortality nor was there then the torch of night and day. The One breathed windlessly and self-sustaining. There was that One then, and there was no other.
At first there was only darkness wrapped in darkness. All this was only unillumined cosmic water. That One which came to be, enclosed in nothing, arose at last, born of the power of heat.
In the beginning desire descended on it - that was the primal seed, born of the mind. The sages who have searched their hearts with wisdom know that which is kin to that which is not.
And they have stretched their cord across the void, and know what was above, and what below. Seminal powers made fertile mighty forces. Below was strength, and over it was impulse.
But, after all, who knows, and who can say Whence it all came, and how creation happened? the Devas (minor gods) themselves are later than creation, so who knows truly whence it has arisen?
Whence all creation had its origin, he, whether he fashioned it or whether he did not, he, who surveys it all from highest heaven, he knows - or maybe even he does not know.
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Post by Aj_June on Jul 8, 2017 6:53:58 GMT
Nasadiya Sukta is important because it directly or indirectly led to formation of most of the philosophies in India. 4 out 6 of orthodox Hindu schools don't believe in concept of creator god and often cite this important hymn from Vedas as one of the important scriptural backing to cast doubts on real creation. Carl Sagan viewed it as an early example of India’s “tradition of skeptical questioning and unselfconscious humility before the great cosmic mysteries.” The verse has been interpreted differently and there are some atheistic and many agnostic interpretation of it. The 7th verse says
Whence all creation had its origin, he, whether he fashioned it or whether he did not, he, who surveys it all from highest heaven, he knows - or maybe even he does not know
However it should be noted that Carl Sagan said any truth in Vedas with current science is merely accidental.
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