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Nasadiya Sukta

नासदीय सूक्त
Before creation there was neither existence nor non-existence — even the gods don't know how it began

The Nasadiya Sukta (Rigveda 10.129) is perhaps the most philosophically astonishing text in world literature, composed over 3,000 years ago. It asks: 'There was neither existence nor non-existence. There was no air, no sky. Who covered it? Where? What sheltered it? Was there water, bottomlessly deep?' It ends with radical epistemic humility: 'Who really knows? Who can declare? Where did creation come from? The gods themselves came later — who knows from where? Perhaps the one who surveys this world in the highest heaven knows — or perhaps even he does not know.' Modern cosmologists find it remarkably close to questions about the Big Bang.

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A 60-second practice

Read slowly: 'There was neither existence nor non-existence.' Sit with that for 60 seconds without trying to understand it. The willingness to not-know is itself a form of wisdom — the Nasadiya Sukta was written by someone who sat in that unknown.

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