Song of Creation

Following is the Song of Creation from Rig Veda, the oldest of the Hindu Scripture originated more then 4000 years ago. It gives the real essence of Hindu Philosophy. Who is the ONE creating all these patterns, that the human mind perceives as chaos? The complexity of human mind that is still undiscovered!!! Is he the ONE governing all this or is HE not?


Song of Creation
There was not then what is nor what is not.
There was no sky, and no heaven beyond the sky.
What power was there? Where? Who was that power?
Was there an abyss of fathoinless waters?
There was neither death nor immortality then.
No signs were there of night or day.
The ONE was breathing by its own power, in deep peace.
Only the ONE was: there was nothing beyond.
Darkness was hidden in darkness.
The all was fluid and formless.
Therein, in the void, by the fire of fervour
arose the ONE.
And in the ONE arose love. Love the first seed of soul.
The truth of this the sages found in their hearts:
seeking in their hearts with wisdom, the sages found
that bond of union between being and non-being.
Who knows in truth?
Who can tell us whence and how arose this universe?
The gods are later than its begnning: who knows therefore
whence comes this creation?
Only that god who sees in highest heaven: he only knows
whence comes this universe, and whether it was made
or uncreated.
He only knows, or perhaps he knows not.
[Rig Veda x. 129]