Nasadiya Suktam | Creation Hymn

Sanatana Dharma translates to the Eternal Life/Way/Order which is commonly known to the modern world as Hinduism. Modern Cosmologists and Physicsist Like Carl Sagan, Neils Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, and CERN Scientists have validated and praised the accuracy of the 3000 year old Vedic Scriptures from RIG VEDA.

Below are few lines from RIGVEDA 10:129 Nasadiya Sukta , Creation Hymn , (3000 year old Vedic scripts.). English translation by Arthur Llewellyn Basham

1. Then even non-existence was not there, nor existence,
There was no air then, nor the space beyond it.
What covered it? Where was it? In whose keeping?
Was there then cosmic fluid, in depths unfathomed?

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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, is kin to that which is not.

5. 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.

6. But, after all, who knows, and who can say
Whence it all came, and how creation happened?
the gods themselves are later than creation,
so who knows truly whence it has arisen?

7. Whence all creation had its origin,
the creator, whether he fashioned it or whether he did not,
the creator, who surveys it all from highest heaven,
he knows — or maybe even he does not know.

Nasadiya Suktam begins rather interestingly, with the statement - "Then, there was neither existence, nor non-existence." It ponders over the when, why and by whom of creation in a very sincere contemplative tone, and provides no definite answers. Rather, it concludes that the gods too may not know, as they came after creation. And maybe the supervisor of creation in the highest heaven knows, or maybe even he does not know! 

How thought Provoking it is! Right? Well, Bharat is a land where people performed Skeptical Questioning.