Nasadiya - The Creation Hymn

Nasadiya
The Creation Hymn of Rig Veda​

There was neither non-existence nor existence then.
There was neither the realm of space nor the sky which is beyond.
What stirred?
Where?
In whose protection?
Was there water, bottlemlessly deep?
There was neither death nor immortality then.
There was no distinguishing sign of night nor of day.
That One breathed, windless, by its own impulse.
Other than that there was nothing beyond.
Darkness was hidden by darkness in the beginning,
with no distinguishing sign, all this was water.
The life force that was covered with emptiness,
that One arose through the power of heat.
Desire came upon that One in the beginning,
that was the first seed of mind.
Poets seeking in their heart with wisdom
found the bond of existence and non-existence.
Their cord was extended across.
Was there below?
Was there above?
There were seed-placers, there were powers.
There was impulse beneath, there was giving forth above.
Who really knows?
Who will here proclaim it?
Whence was it produced?
Whence is this creation?
The gods came afterwards, with the creation of this universe.
Who then knows whence it has arisen?
Whence this creation has arisen
– perhaps it formed itself, or perhaps it did not –
the One who looks down on it,
in the highest heaven, only He knows
or perhaps even He does not know.​

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Translation by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty. From the Book "The Rig Veda -
Anthology"​

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Brahma

IF the red slayer think he slays,
Or if the slain think he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep, and pass, and turn again.

Far or forgot to me is near;
Shadow and sunlight are the same;
The vanish'd gods to me appear;
And one to me are shame and fame.

They reckon ill who leave me out;
When me they fly, I am the wings;
I am the doubter and the doubt,
And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

The strong gods pine for my abode,
And pine in vain the sacred Seven;
But thou, meek lover of the good!
Find me, and turn thy back on heaven.

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Vaar 1 Pauri 2, 'Creation'
Vaaran Bhai Gurdasji​

prathhamain saas n maas san andhh dhhundh kashh khabar n paaee
First of all, when no breath and body was there nothing was visible in the pitch darkness.​

rakath bindh kee dhaeh rach paanch thath kee jarrath jarraaee
The body was created through the blood(of mother) and semen (of father) and the five
elements were joined judiciously.​

poun paanee baisantharo chaathhee dhharathee sang milaaee
Air, water, fire and earth was put together.​

panch vich aakaas kar karathaa shhattam adhish samaaee
The fifth element sky (void) was kept in between and creator God, the sixth one,
invisibly permeated among all.​

panch thaath pachees gun shathr mithr mil dhaeh banaaee
To create the human body, five elements and twenty five qualities opposite to each
other were joined and mixed.​

khaanee baanee chalith kar aavaagoun charith dhikhaaee
Four life originating mines (egg foetus sweatborn , vegetation) and four speeches
(para, pasyanti, madhyama, vaikhari) were assimiliated into each other and the
drama of transmigration was enacted.​

chaaraaseeh laakh jon oupaaee
thus eighty four lacs of species were created.​

Vaar 1 Pauri 2, 'Creation'
Vaaran Bhai Gurdasji​

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