The Religion of the Veda: The Ancient Religion of India (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads) c10.7

c10.7

This verse states that the great gods of the Veda are but One Being; therefore it at once takes a high stand in the range of possible human thought. And yet it occurs in a hymn of the Rig-Veda, namely, the famous riddle-hymn of Dīrghatamas, in the first book of that collection.² Another statement in the tenth book³ is as follows: “That One breathed without breath, by inner power; than it, truly, nothing whatever else existed besides."