RgVeda, x, 129
There was neither existence nor non-existence, The Kingdom
Of air, nor the sky beyond, What was there to contain, to cover
In - was it but vast, unfathomed depths of Water? There was no
Death there, nor Immortality. No sun was there, dividing day
From night. Then there was only THAT, resting within itself.
Apart from it, there was not anything. At first within the
Darkness veiled in darkness Chaos unknowable, the All lay
Hid. Till straightaway from the formless void made manifest
By the great power of heat was born that germ …….
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