Studies in the Epics and Puranas c8.50

c8.50

That Not-Being was regarded as the primary existent is seen from the *Taittirīya Upaniṣad*,²³ where we find the natural development of the idea expressed in the famous *Nāsadīya Sūkta*. The *Bṛhadāraṇyaka* also expresses itself similarly.²⁴ Such passages show that human thought at some period reaches a stage when it is required to take recourse to privative logical conception like Not-Being.