The Song of Creation & Unsolved Mystery Of Origin Of Life

Then there was not non-existent nor existent,

Then there was no realm of air, no sky beyond it.

What covered in, and where ? and what gave shelter ?

Was water there, unfathomed depth of water ?

Death was not then, nor was there aught immortal.

No indication was there as to the day’s and night’s divider.

That one thing, “breathless”, breathed by its own nature,

Apart from it was nothing whatsoever.

Darkness there was in the beginning,

Concealed in darkness, all this was undiscriminating chaos.

All that existed then was void and formless,

By the great power of warmth was born that “single unit”.

Thereafter rose “desire” in the beginning,

Desire - the primal seed and germ of spirit.

Sages who searched through their heart and mind,

Discovered the existent’s kinship in the non-existent.

Transversely was their severing line extended,

What was above it then, and what below it ?

There were begetters and there were mighty forces,

Free action here and energy of yonder.

Who verily knows and who can here declare it,

Whence it was born and whence originated this creation ?

The Gods came much later than this world’s production.

Who knows, then, whence it first came into being.

HE, the first origin of this creation,

Whether he formed it all or did not form it.

Whose eye controls this world in highest heaven,

He verily knows it, or perhaps he knows it not !

(“O Faith endow us with belief”)