HYMN TO CREATION

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HYMN TO CREATION   Nor Aught nor Nought existed; yon bright sky  Was not, nor

heaven's broad roof outstretched above.  What covered all? what sheltered? what

concealed?  Was it the water's fathomless abyss?  There was not death - yet

there was nought immortal,  There was no confine betwixt day and night;  The

only ONE breathed breathless by itself,  Other than It there nothing since has

been.  Darkness there was, and all at first was veiled  In gloom profound - an

ocean without light -  The germ that still lay covered in the husk  Burst

forth, one nature, from the fervent heat.  Desire first arose in It,  The

primal seed and germ of Spirit.  Sages searching wisdom within their hearts

 Found out the bond of Being in Non-Being.  Their ray of light traversed the

severed Darkness:  What stood above? and what below?  Creative Beings were

there, and vital power;  The fiery sea above, and worlds below.  Who knows the

Secret? who proclaimed it here?  Whence, whence this manifold creation sprang?

 The Gods themselves came later into being -  Who knows from whence this great

creation sprang?  That, whence all this great creation came,  Whether Its will

created or was mute,  The Most High Seer that is in highest heaven,  He knows

it - or perchance even He knows not.       Rig Veda