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Thursday, May 30, 2013

A pondering

I was discussing Eschatology over the weekend with my friends. Mostly it was a discussion with incoherent thoughts (My mind was somewhere else) from my side. We then slipped into the main differences between Abrahmic religions and then Hindu views on evolution. I was trying to quote the verse from Rig Veda that is its most skeptical part about the creation of world. I wasn't able to remember exactly. I just looked it up and here it is.

It's a beautiful verse in Sanskrit but for ease of reading, I'll post it's translation I picked from Wikipedia --
 
Who really knows, and who can swear,
How creation came, when or where!
Even gods came after creation’s day,
Who really knows, who can truly say
When and how did creation start?
Did He do it? Or did He not?
Only He, up there, knows, maybe;
Or perhaps, not even He.

— Rig Veda 10.129.1-7

If you think it's misrepresented here, please let me know.