RV 129

Rig Veda · translated by Ralph T.H. Griffith

2 Death was not then, nor was there aught immortal: no sign was there, the day's and night's divider. 3 Darkness there was: at first concealed in darknew this All was indiscriminated chaos. 4 Thereafter rose Desire in the beginning, Desire, the primal seed and germ of Spirit. 5 Transversely was their severing line extended: what was above it then, and what below it? 6 Who verily knows and who can here declare it, whence it was born and whence comes this creation? 7 He, the first origin of this creation, whether he formed it all or did not form it,

RV 129 · Rig Veda · null

Themes in this passage

Creation Death Desire The Soul Truth Suffering Rebirth

Creation in other traditions

The same theme, as Islam, Christianity, Taoism and Buddhism address it.

Lo! We have created them a (new) creation

Quran 56:35 · Quran

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Genesis 1:27 · Bible · Genesis

Abstaining from speech marks him who is obeying the spontaneity of his nature. A violent wind does not last for a whole morning; a sudden rain does not last for the whole day. To whom is it that these (two) things are owing? To Heaven and Earth. If Heaven and Earth cannot make such (spasmodic) actings last long, how much less can man!

Tao Te Ching 23.1 · Tao Te Ching

`All created things perish,' he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain; this is the way to purity.

Dhp 20.277 · Dhammapada · The Way

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