The Religion of the Veda: The Ancient Religion of India (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads) c10.75

Language: English

c10.75

The poet describes as deftly as possible a primordial chaos. There was not non-being, for that is unconceivable¹; there was not being in the ordinary experience of the senses. What was there? The poet in the next stanza carries on his negation and then abruptly presses forward to a positive conclusion:

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