Nasadiya Sukta

Nasadiya Suktas of Rig Veda is a wonderful explanation about beginning of Cosmos, and it unfold the mystery of origin of Cosmos philosophically. The poetic description is simply amazing.

नासदासीन् नो सदासीत् तदानीं नासीद् रजो नो व्योमापरो यत् |
किमावरीवः कुह कस्य शर्मन्नम्भः किमासीद् गहनं गभीरम् ||

Then even nothingness was not, nor existence,
There was no air then, nor the heavens bwyond it.
What covered it? Where was it? In whose keeping
Was there then cosmic water, in depths unfathomable?

न मृत्युरासीदमृतं न तर्हि न रात्र्या अह्न आसीत्प्रकेतः |
आनीदवातं स्वधया तदेकं तस्माद्धान्यन् न परः किं चनास ||

Then there was neither death nor immortality
nor was there then the torch of night and day.
The One breathed windlessly and self-sustaining.
There was that One then, and there was no other.

तम आसीत् तमसा गूळमग्रेऽप्रकेतं सलिलं सर्वमाइदम् |
तुच्येनाभ्वपिहितं यदासीत् तपसस्तन्महिनाजायतैकम् ||

At first there was only darkness wrapped in darkness.
All this was only unillumed water.
That One which came to be, enclosed in nothing,
arose at last, born of the power of heat.

कामस्तदग्रे समवर्तताधि मनसो रेतः प्रथमं यदासीत् |
सतो बन्धुमसति निरविन्दन् हृदि प्रतीष्याकवयो मनीषा ||

In the beginning desire descended on it -
that was the primal seed, born of mind.
The sages who have searched their hearts with wisdom
know that which is is kin to that which is not.

तिरश्चीनो विततो रश्मिरेषामधः स्विदासी दुपरिस्विदासी |
रेतोधाआसन् महिमान आसन् स्वधा अवस्तात् प्रयतिः परस्तात् ||

And they have stretched their cord across the void,
and know what was above, and what below.
Seminal powers made fertile mighty forces.
Below was strength, and over it was impulse.

को अद्धा वेद क इह प्र वोचत् कुत आजाता कुत इयंविसृष्टिः |
अर्वाग् देवा अस्य विसर्जनेनाथा को वेद यतआबभूव ||

But, after all, who knows, and who can say
Whence it all came, and how creation happened?
The gods themselves are later than creation,
so who knows truly whence it has arisen?

इयं विसृष्टिर्यत आबभूव यदि वा दधे यदि वा न |
यो अस्याध्यक्षः परमे व्योमन् सो अङ्ग वेद यदि वा नवेद ||

Whence all creation had its origin,
he, whether he fashioned it or whether he did not,
he, who surveys it all from highest heaven,
he knows - or maybe even he does not know.

                                                             Rigved Samhita: 10^th Mandala, 129^th Suukta