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- Subject: Re: A Passage from the Rig Veda
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:58:20 GMT
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- In article <48984@ogicse.ogi.edu> krashok@mse.ogi.edu (Ashok Krishnamurthy) writes:
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- > A Passage from the Rig veda
- > ---------------------------
- > Then there was neither being nor non-being:
- > There was no air, nor firmament beyond it.
- > Was there a stirring ? Where ? Beneath what cover ?
- > Was there a great abyss of unplumbed water ?
- > There was no death nor anything immortal;
- > Nor any sign dividing day from night.
- > That One thing, in the stillness, breathed quiescent;
- > No second thing existed whatsoever.
- > Darkness was hidden in a deeper darkness;
- > This All was as a sea without dimensions;
- > The void still held unformed what was potential,
- > Until the power of Warmth produced the sole One...
- > Who truly knows, and who can here declare it ?
- > Whence it was born, and how this world was fashioned ?
- > The gods came later than the earth's creation:
- > Who knows then out of what the world has issued ?
- > Whatever he made the world or did not make it,
- > He knows whence this creation came, he only
- > Who in the highest heavens guards and watches;
- > He knows indeed, but then, perhaps, he knows not!
- >
- > Probably the above lines and the last line of the
- > is a spontaneous process rather than a self-willed
- > one.
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- COSMIC EVOLUTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- ORIGIN OF LIFE IS SO CLEARLY DESCRIBED IN THE ABOVE VERSE.
- If you can read and understand the original (Sanskrit) verse of it,
- you can enjoy the meaning of it. The intution of those Vedic Rishis was
- so great that the theory of origin of life proposed by the modern day
- astronomers/biologists/chemists/molecular biologists, is nothing but
- the same what is said above. The English translation does not clearly
- disperse the greatest scientific thought of Rigveda. One has to know
- Sanskrit and read the original to suck the honey.
- Thank you very much Mr. Krishnamurthy. Great job.
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- SAVA LOKA MAYEE VEDA ! I will post the Sanskrit original with meanings
- soon.
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- PARANADI LAKSHMI NARASIMHAM
- RIGVEDIC
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- DISCLAIMER: OPINIONS EXPRESSED ABOVE ARE NOT THOSE OF MY EMPLOYER.
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