Hymn of Creation from the Rig Veda

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Hymn of Creationfrom the Rig Veda
Science and Religion in Schools Project Unit 5c
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• Not even nothing existed then
• No air yet, and no heaven.
• Who encased and kept it where?
• Was water in the darkness there?

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• Neither deathlessness nor decay
• No, nor the rhythm of the night and day
• The self-existent, with breath sans air
• That, and that alone was there.

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• Darkness was in darkness found
• Like light-less water all around.
• Once emerged, with nothing on
• It was from heat that this was born.

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• Who really knows, and who can swear,
• How creation arose, when or where!
• Even gods came after creations day,
• Who really knows, who can truly say

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• When and how did creation start?
• Did He do it? Or did He not?
• Only He up there knows, maybe
• Or perhaps, not even He.