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- From: murgesh@entropy.esd.sgi.com (Murgesh Navar)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Beginning of Time and the Rig Veda
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.204217.20392@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 20:42:17 GMT
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- Then there was neither being nor non-being:
- There was no air, nor firmament beyond it.
- Was there a stirring ? Where ? Beneath what cover ?
- Was there a great abyss of unplumbed water ?
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- There was no death nor anything immortal;
- Nor any sign dividing day from night.
- That One thing, in the stillness, breathed quiescent;
- No second thing existed whatsoever.
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- Darkness was hidden in a deeper darkness;
- This All was as a sea without dimensions;
- The void still held unformed what was potential,
- Until the power of Warmth produced the sole One...
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- Who truly knows, and who can here declare it ?
- Whence it was born, and how this world was fashioned ?
- The gods came later than the earths creation:
- Who knows then out of what the world has issued ?
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- Whatever he made the world or did not make it,
- He knows whence this creation came, he only
- Who in the highest heavens guards and watches;
- He knows indeed, but then, perhaps, he knows not!
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- A hymn from the Rig Veda (2000 BC). The Rig Veda
- is the earliest of Hindu/Vedic Texts. This was primarily
- the religion of the Aryans at there advent into India.
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- -murgesh
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