Rig Veda. Mandala 10 Hymn 129
There was not the Non-existent nor the Existent then;
there was not the air nor the sky which is beyond.
What did it contain?
Was there water, unfathomable and profound ?
There was not death nor immortality then.
There was not the beacon of the night nor of day.
That One breathed, airless by its own power.
Other than that there was not anything beyond.
Darkness was in the beginning hidden by darkness;
indistinguishable, all this was water.
That which, coming into being, was covered with the void,
that One arose through the power of combustion.
Desire in the beginning came upon That,
that was the primal seed born of mind.
Sages seeking in their hearts with wisdom,
discovered the connection of the existent in the non-existent.
They have extended their measuring cord across the void;
but was there above or was there below?
Seminal Powers made fertile mighty forces,
there was energy below and there was impulse above.
Who truly knows? Who shall here declare,
whence it has been produced, whence this creation?
The gods came after the creation of the universe.
Who then knows whence it has arisen.
Whence this creation has arisen,
and whether He founded it or not;
He who in the highest heaven is its Surveyor;
He alone knows,
or
perhaps He knows not.