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Excerpt from Some Sayings From the Upanishads: Done Into English With Notes
Wellnigh two thousand and eight hundred years ago, when the Aryans of India were growing somewhat weary of worshipping in blind veneration their fathers' gods of sky and cloud and dawn, there was a dreamer among them who one day sang thus of the world's beginning.
Not-Being then was not, Being was not, light-garth was not, nor heaven, nor what is beyond. Was there a shroud thereof? where, and in whose ward? Were there waters wildering, deep?
Death was not, nor deathlessness then, nor was under standing of night and day. Windless breathed as it listed This, lonely; beyond it was naught else.
Darkness first there was, hidden in darkness, beyond understanding water was this All. When it was covered over with emptiness, by the might of heat was born the One.
First over it stirred Love, that was the first seed of mind, the bond of Being with Not-Being that by wisdom seers searching found in their heart.
Was their line spread forth aslant, or was it below, or was it on high? Sowers of seed there were, mighty ones there were. Food was below, striving above.
Who knoweth in sooth, who here may tell, whence and from what was this world's building? The gods were afterward in the building of this world; then who knoweth whence it came forth?
Whence came forth this world's building, whether He set it up or no, He soothly knoweth who is warden over it in the highest heaven or haply He knoweth not.
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