It was neither a-sat nor sat, neither non-existence nor positive existence, then, nothing tangible, neither particles nor sky nor space nor anything beyond. What form? What content? None. Where? What purpose, for whom? What mist?Whatdeepdarkness?None, nothing, and yet not nothing. (It was the zero state of existence after the completion of one cycle and before the beginning of the next cycle, like the zero hours between two dates. It is a state intangible and inexplicable because thought and language too terminate into the intangible and inexplicable silence at the completion of the cycle. The zero hour exists and yet it does not, it doesn’t exist and yet it does, that’s the mystery of it. The state under meditation in this sukta is the hour of Infinity in the womb of Infinity self-brooding on the zero; the One upon the zero.
⇒⇒⇒⇒ 10.129.2
There is, then, neither death nor deathlessness of immortality, neither night nor day as we know the night and day. There is only That, the One self-existent Brahma, breathing without breath, the sole One, one with its potential. Any other apart or beyond That there was none whatsoever.
⇒⇒⇒⇒ 10.129.3
There is only dark, darker and deeper than darkness itself before the world of existence comes into being, something misty beyond knowledge and experience, this all that now is. That living mystery, which then exists, covered in something more mysterious than the mystery itself, self-manifests by the exercise of Its own grandeur of power and potential solely by Itself.
⇒⇒⇒⇒ 10.129.4
There are love and desire before the creation at the heart of Brahma which is the first, original and ultimate seed of the world of existence that comes into being. Sages blest with vision, by divine inspiration and mind in meditation, realize the world of existence from the tangible up to the intangible state implicit in the seed state of Prakriti subsisting in the divine mind.
⇒⇒⇒⇒ 10.129.5
The waves and vibrations of these causal potentials of divine Prakrti extend in time and space all around, up, down and transverse. There are the individual souls also, seedlings great and yearning for emergence into life. In all this process of creation and evolution, the divine will is supreme, and the divine potential, Prakrti, the seeding souls, and potential evolutions, are all subservient and subordinate to the divine will.
⇒⇒⇒⇒ 10.129.6
Who for certain knows, who here would declare whence this universe has come, whence this variety has emerged? The visionary sages all come after the creation and diversity of it. Who of them would then know whence and why all this has come into existence? Only He, the creator, would know, only He can reveal and declare.
⇒⇒⇒⇒ 10.129.7
O dear seeker, whence this multitudinous variety of existence arises, who holds and sustains it, or whether He doesn’t hold and sustain it while He terminates it, only He knows who is the presiding power of it at the highest heavenly level of mystery. Only He knows and pervades it, and He only knows when he doesn’t pervade it while it subsists in Him as in the state of Pralaya. (Collected from sources)
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