The Rig Veda - Indian Creation Myth 

The " one " refereed is not Male , it's genderless, source of the all reality , we call " Nirguna Brahman " in Vedas ( the supreme power, perfect and complete ) and Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are just attributes ( Saguna Brahman )

The Rig Veda is much older than most think it is, before it was written, it was sung passed on orally. That's why it survived Alexander the great's religious Extinction campaign. When there is no foundation, no house of God/s can be torn down. Great video.

The beautiful thing about this hymn is that it does not attempt to answer the questions, it just raises them. The hymn ends with a question, a sort of a cliffhanger. It drives home the fact that it is a mystery and that we will never know.

I am Hindu. But still I have to learn so many things which is written in our Vedas. Thankyou sir for these insights.

Lead me from the fear of finite to the realization of infinity Lead me from the fear of death to the realization of immortality. Lead me to the understanding I am birthless ,deathless and one with the one Vedas

Being Indian, the Vedas are my heritage, my inheritance . It is only when I see the joy in Mr.Bolland's soul, when I see his eyes light up from within...as he 'ingests' the creation sukta, word by fascinating word, do I get introduced to the fact of how rich I am to be Indian ,and how 'beyond everything and nothing ' I am to be a part of the Brahman. Thank you, Mr. Bolland.

These ancient sages didn't know about atom, planets, physics is a gross understatement. Fact of the matter is these sages knew earth was a sphere, mentioned about subatomic particles, knew about the solar system and it's planets and more. Something really weird was indeed going on in the past. May be the Vedas are much much older than we think. May be the so called sages were indeed scientists belonging to a very advanced ancient civilization. May be the knowledge was gifted to them by beings from other planets or planetary systems ( there are 14 planetary systems or catagories according to rig Veda). We so called modern humans have lost all our past knowledge and memories.

The hymn what you are explaining is in nasadiya suktham - Rig veda 10 th mandala ( chapter) . Thanks for explaining that in poetic way!! 🙏 From Tamil Nadu - India 🇮🇳

The He was added by English and western interpreters. In sanskrit it doesn't mention he or she. The one can also be what can be called singularity. All the Gods and the beings are said to be embodiment of the One. Brahman. The concept of Atoms called Anu is as old as the vedas.🙏🏻

Hello everyone! I'm just popping in today, six months after shooting this video, to say thank you! Thanks for making this the number one video on my channel. (It's also the one with the most comments, most likes, and most thumbs-down. Ha!) Thank you especially to all the folks from India who have watched and commented on this video. Judging by all the negative thumbs-down and critical comments, there is clearly a cultural divide at work here. I made these videos for my 45 world mythology students here at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, just south of San Diego, California. I never realized that it would be viewed by thousands of people all over the world. In that class, we study "myths," which to us means "truths" -- ancient, poetic, metaphorical, symbolic stories that try to convey the ineffable, that try to say the unsayable. We study the Rig Veda alongside the Popul Vuh of the Mayans, the Enuma Elish of the Sumerians, the Pyramid Texts of the Egyptians, the Prose Edda of Norse mythology, the book of Genesis of the Judaeo-Christian tradition, and many more. That so many took umbrage at hearing the Rig Veda referred to as a "myth" caught me by surprise. To me, calling something a "myth" is high praise. So thank you to all of my critics on this thread for reminding me of the rich diversity of perspective in the world.

It is very clearly mentioned in the Bhagavad-Gita in chapter 4 that Lord Krishna ( Vishnu ) is eternal. He was present before creation and will continue to exist even after the whole universe dies out.

The he pronoun creeps in because of the translation, where as the actual sanskrit verse doesn't dignify such. The sanskrit pronoun more likely relates to infinite rather than a gender. But translation 🤷‍♂️

Sir, To interpret the Vedas it is very important to be acquainted with all the 6 Vedangas (limbs of Vedas) which are Vyakaran (Grammer), Shiksha (phonetics), Chhandas (Prosody), Kalpa (laws and rituals), Nirukta (etymology) and Jyotisha ( astronomy). These are the auxillary texts which a student have to pursue for 8 years in Gurukul and only then he could be able to understand the revealed verses of Vedas. Vedas are strictly monotheistic and tells us that Almighty God has an absolute authority over universe. There are so many misconceptions about Vedas which were spread by Western scholars who didn't understand it and have presented a false translation of it. In Vedas there is no histories, references of any geographical area or name of person, it is a very scientific and rational approach of nature, how universe created, works and the guidance regarding human conducts. We Aryan belief that God's word can never be associated to any particular area, group of people or race like that in Bible, God's words must be free from transient affiliations and must be available since the beginning of the humanity. There are 100 names of God like Agni, Marut, Prajapati, Rudra, Vishnu, Indra etc all these are qualitative names of God, while the most proper name of God is OM (ओ३म्). If you wants to learn about Vedas then read the book Satyarth Prakash by Mahrishi Dayanand Saraswati the most renowned and brilliant vedic scholar of modern era who lived in 19th Century. Today's modern science tells us that the string is the smallest matter by which the quarks are made then sub atomic particles and then the atom. But Aitreya Brahman (commentary of Rig Vedas) explains that the creation of string (Rashmi in sanskrit) is the fifth stage of creation before strings God had 4 matters prior to the string. Acharya Agnivart Naishtik is a vedic scientist who has published his work in 4 volume name 'Ved Vigyan Alok', it is commentary of Aitreya Brahman and deals with the creation of matters and the Universe.

What translated book are you reading this from? Would love to read the Rig Veda in depth and in a way that makes sense

Of all cultural knowledge of creation the rig vedas makes more sense to me. It feels like I'm in the right place to learn.

There's so much in these scriptures, you might go insane when you realize how scientific and philosophical it is

"The One" refers to the primordial consciousness which nobody seems to know what it's about

Rig Veda mentions Saraswati River flowing in all its glory. Now it is up to you western scientists to estimate the time when Saraswati finally dried up and vanished, and then calculate the age of this Veda. I think 15,000 to 20,000 years BC would be a better estimate. Max Mueller, who said that this Veda was 1,200 years BC, later retreated from his own words and accepted his arbitrary dating.

So beautifully explained. Thank you! The wisdom from thousands of years ago is still relevant in today's research and an invitation into inquiry :)

Dear Peter Bolland -wonderful explanation about Rig Veda. What I liked most is that you are providing a highly intellectual explanation about our own tradition which makes me to feel proud about our own culture. You are really a un-official spokesperson of our ancient philosophy. Thank you.

This is one of the finest videos on Rig Veda I have come across...Very well explained...

Hearing you was the an emotional experience, where the profound mantras of the Rishis was so eloquently conveyed. I am not able to convey in words the effect your presentation had.

There is a mention of River Saraswati in the Rig Veda in several holy hymns; in there it has been described as a river which flows with a loud roar and which causes heavy floods in the area. Archeological studies indicate that River Saraswati started to dry up nearly 6500 years ago and had eventually dried up by around 2000 BCE. This clearly indicates that Rig Veda had been written at least around 5000 to 6000 years ago. Also to be known that the holy hymns and songs of praise have been passed down from one generation to the next orally; before those songs and praises were actually compiled up and written down. I personally am fond of such resourceful contents related to the earliest documented steps of mankind. It really helps to understand the philosophical and existential outlooks and ways of our ancient ancestors. I shall request you to kindly make a video on The Core Similarities between the Sindhu/Indus Valley Civilization and the Egyptian Civilization;

It's sad that once you learn Sanskrit and realised the English translated books you read were translated pretty badly. And also the joy of reading the text in sanskrit.

The vedas are much older than believed . In _Bhagvad Gita_ (a part of Mahabharata, where Krishna, a divine being imparts the truth of the world), the four vedas were mentioned. Since the _Bhagvad Gita_ was narrated in 3237 BC, the four vedas must have already existed before 3237 BC.

Max Muller believed in the Biblical creation, and calculated the age of the Vedas as follows . He assumed the creation to have taken place on October 23, 4004 B.C., and then using the biblical chronology the deluge is placed in the year 2448 B.C. He granted a thousand years for the floods to subside, thus arriving at 1400 B.C. for the Aryan invasion of India. He allowed 200 years as the time to get familiar with the new home, thus calculating 1200 B.C. as the date for the composition of the Vedas. Of course he did not provide this reasoning for his dating of the Vedas to general public, but worked backwards to give the same chronology he had already calculated. He fixed 600 B.C. for the date of Buddha, allotted 200 years each for the Chhandas, Mantra and Brāhmaṇa periods. Thus Brāhmaṇas were composed during 800-600 B.C., Mantra portion of the Vedas was composed during 1000-800 B.C. and Chhandas portion of the Vedas (e.g. Ṛgveda) was composed during 1200-1000 B.C. Obviously there is no scientific reason as to why it should take only 200 years each and not 500 or 1000 years for the composition of the Chhandas, Mantras and Brāhmaṇas. Later Max Muller disowned his chronology and said that no power on earth can determine when the Vedas were written. Vedic Physics book Raja Ram Mohan Roy

The 4 mahavakya mentioned in the 4 Vedas that captures the essence of all Vedas are; Prajnanam Brahma ( The consciousness is Universe/everything) Ayam Atma Brahma (This self is Brahman/everything) Aham Brahmasmi ( I am brahman/divine/universal) Tatvamasi( I am that/absolute, Or you are everything) The unity of one with the entirety of cosmos is the essence of all Vedic traditions( be it Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism)

Pagan culture Shudra - One who thinks just about himself Vaishya - One who only thinks about his family Kshatriya - One who thinks about the Nation Bhramin - One who thinks about the entire cosmos (Brahaman)

What a captivating lecture! You take the listeners on a flight of imagination and inquiry, as though towards the source of thought. I felt like I was 18 (thought I'm decades removed from that) listening to a great lecture in college. How fortunate must your students be! I wish I had ones like you teaching each of the subjects that I studied.

During the scientific revolution of the 20th century, western scientists armed as were with their new insights and methods to explore some of the most baffling questions of the universe with the advent of quantum mechanics and relativity , became brazenly contemptuous and dismissive of the Abrahamic ideas of creationism. However when they encountered the vedas -nothing in their world view had prepared them to deal with the ideas like the Nasadiya Sukta contained in the vedas. They found it impossible to fathom that the Scientific Method that they cherished and believed was purely a result of western scientific revolutions and contestations against the church, were actually enshrined in the scriptures of the vedanta thousands of years ago !! Quantum mpioneer Erwin Schrodinger was so fascinated that he developed a life long obsession with the metaphysics of the vedanta

Very well done! Thank you. I love the joy and passion in your explanation!😊🙏💐

What a pleasure it is to see this wonderful variety of videos on your channel. Subbed! 😊

6:21 "male pronoun creeps in." Well in Sanskrit, the Verb form is independent of gender of the doer. And you don't need to explicitly say the doer in a sentence. For example, in English you say, He created the universe. In Sanskrit apart from the above way you can also write, (Someone) Created the universe. That's why, Vaishavaites believe it is Lord Narayan (Krishna), Shaivaits believe it's Lord Shiva and Shaktyas believe it's Devi Shakti who is the all souce of everything. These are three main division in Hinduism and Devi Shakti is female. So, the translation was creepy and sexist but not the original Vedic Sanskrit text. This is another difference between genesis and Hindu thought of creation. But good things about Hindu culture is that you are allowed to interpret things in your way and would not be considered as sexist even if you choose it as 'He'.

Beautiful presentation of the creation myth from the Rig Veda. The Nasadiya Sukta also known as the Hymn of Creation is the 129 the hymn of the 10 the mandala of the Rig Veda. It is connected with cosmology and the origin of the universe. This verse is one of the most widely quoted portions of the Rig Veda. Astronomer Carl Sagan quoted it in discussing India's "tradition of skeptical questioning and unselfconscious humility before the great cosmic mysteries.

Yes.for space is distance between 2 or more objects.when there is no 2 that's is ,no duality ,so there is no space. Also time means an interval between 2 events,for example sunrise and sunset.but even time had not begin by then.Because events were altogether absent

I was Christian but right I m hindu because of the beauty of hindu Vedas and scriptures.. Any religion can't give the actual knowledge about the god

I dont agree with genesis, beginning cant be part of singulairty, because when it says "in the beginning" and that means genesis says there was a beginning but in Hinduism there is no beginning infact beginning and ending is the part of duality, so the singularity(Brahman) has to be beginningless and endless, so gensis is wrong in it's first sentence, but Rig Vedas say "Then" which is nor beginning nor end it means like it always existed but because rig veda is being translated in english which is not the best language in terms of understanding and translation sucks and losses it's real meaning, understaning of sanscrit language is necessary to 100% understand what it is realing saying and meaning. Vedas are much older then we think it is, 5561 BCE when Krishan was here even then Vedas was so ancient that it almost went extinct, but Krishna revived it before that, Rama revived it around 12,209 BCE which actually came from Lord Shiva who never aged never born and never died he is the manifestation of almighty eternal brahman in Human form in duality and his wife is half part of him which is necessary for brahman (the conscious singulairty) to manifest in duality to enjoy the duality created by themself. the symbol of Brahman is Om OM NAMAH SHIVAY

The movement from the One to the many, from the Infinite to finites, is a movement of Bliss(Ananda), the One inhabits and enjoys the play, it is not by Will, but for the enjoyment the play is played.

As you explained Peter, this set of verses sets the tone of the Indian belief system. Essentially, we are a country of seekers with the belief that our existence is filled with limitless possibilities because 'we don't know'. This itself is a limitless possibility. Imagine if humanity said the universe would move per the laws of Newton and no one else is allowed, then poor Einstein would have to go back to becoming a patent clerk. The essence of being Indian is that we are always open to the idea that there may be something else that is 'possible'. This is also the reason that India is open to new religions and even new gods. For example , India welcomed the Zoroastrians when they were chased out of Persia due to Islamic persecution( hints at the origin of the word). India also welcomed Hitler's jews when no one else would. All this stems from the art of the possible.

Beautiful analysis of the Rig Veda. While I see that many have commented on the origin and translation/transliteration, it is pleasing to see someone appreciate all the bounties of the ancient cultures of the world. The Vedas being one, are the foundations of Sanatana Dharma in India. As we discuss more, we let the knowledge come from all directions, just as the ancients intended. Looking forward to more discourses and discussions. Kudos!

I think the English translation is a bit at fault here. What is the word for "gods" used? Because if it's devas, then that can denote "demigods", but the "one" can be absolute truth/brahman/god.

Please, please tell me some more of what's in the rig veda. I really enjoyed your teaching. I want to learn more about the Rig Veda.

Those gods which work here are like angels of christianity and islam which hold high positions Whereas brahm who is the ultimate reality he existed before everything

Beautiful fascinating ! Appreciate! Thanks for thoughts and analysis!

Almost every term in Science today like gravity, Atom etc was discovered and researched deeply on by ancient Indian scholars, and sages. Atom was called Anu, and Gravity was described such that Earth had a tendency to attract objects toward itself, thus defining gravity.

Excellent video! For those interested, this is “Nasadiaya Sukta” Rig Veda Mandala 10:129… and the more I read it, the more I feel that it’s trying to describe Big Bang Theory… or maybe it’s my mind that is ascribing! Some of the portions like “the one… enclosed in nothing… born or power of heat” absolutely nail the current scientific view of how universe began from stage of extremely hot primordial soup when there was nothing! And then “nor was there the torch of night and day”, for millions of years of cosmic expansion there was no light then first stars and galaxies formed then came everything else!

It's a very poor Hindu indeed who does not question each and everything in search for truth..even the Gods and himself.And this level of thought emanating from so far in the past is a reminder to keep on questioning.

Rig veda has astronomical and geological references that predate 1800bc ... I e When Saraswati river dried up.... Veda mean true knowledge , it is what the original gods/creators passed down to lower creatures, which were realized under deep meditation to understand the ONE.. it is again explained by Krishna in the Bhagwad Geeta

Great class man...❤️ From India. In many eastern religions creator and creation are ultimately same.universe is a manifestation of God not creation . ultimately this"one" exists.

I'm currently working on a video about the Great Creatrix Goddess Aditi of the Rig Veda, who is perhaps the earliest name of 'god'/ 'the One'/ the progenitor of the cosmos.

I love watching your videos and especially watching your explanations.

The sages and seers of ancient India could analyze and decipher the mysteries of the universe with relative accuracy more than five thousand years ago because those thinkers existed in a certain cultural context and society that allowed debate unmolested and unconstrained by dogma and a society that encouraged and appreciated thinkers, provided those philosophers the space to apply reason in the pursuit of truth and only truth.

This is not a story. Vedas have no past no history. They have mantras not verses. In Vedic Sanskrit and not in Sanskrit. Oral form Knowledge received by four Rishis in the form of Vibrations 4th form of the sound. HiranyaGrabha answers this question. This is just a small part of the creation of universe according to ved.

Hindu is all about enquiry, we question everything, we learn by questions

Village priests may open their temple ceremonies with the following beloved invocation: O Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations: Thou art everywhere, but I worship thee here; Thou art without form, but I worship thee in these forms; Thou needest no praise, yet I offer thee these prayers and salutations; Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations.

Hey, I'm not a Sanskrit expert but from what I've learnt and based on my broader understanding of Hindu philosophy, "he" only comes up here in the English translation. The original Sanskrit version does not seem gendered.

I am from India and I am a Sanatan Dharmi. I think you are mistaken, sir. The 'One' described in the Rig Veda is the Supreme God and IT preceded the universe. He created the universe and is the universe. The 'God' word which is later used refers to the minor gods in the Hindu Culture, which came into existence later.Nonetheless, this video was very informative and thank you for spreading the words of our Ancient Culture.🙏🏻

Its interesting that the Vedas, and its Gnyana Kanda's (Aranyakas, Upanishads) emphasize only THE ONE, later Brahman, as being the only Ultimate Reality.. The only object of our Vedic pursuit towards MOKSH/liberation.. The Nasadiya Suktam (Creation Story) is simply an intellectually open-ended teaser.. Its creation as Prakruti/Manifested Universe is deliberately kept ambiguous, as is the emphasis on the reality of its eventual dissolution back into THE ONE.. So, unlike the Abrahamic faiths, the creation (and existence/dissolution) part of Prakruti is not that important.. FROM WHERE it emerged, Brahman, is the focus..

In later vedic text i.e Upnishads they defined it as "Brahman" it is the ultimate source of creation. For hindus there is no heaven or hell our ultimate goal is to escape the cycle of birth and become the part of that ultimate source of creation(Brahman).

Just mesmerizingly narrated! Thank you!

well, we can’t call every concept of creation as myth. at least one of them is closer to the truth.

Consciousness the primordial sea, absolute bliss. Matter evolved from Consciousness and and mind evolved from matter on its journey to return back to Consciousness

The early readings here really do remind me of the kinds of descriptions theoretical cosmologists have come up with in relation to the "Big Bang"/"Inflation" and the evolution of the early universe. I have often wondered about whether out knowledge of the physical universe has advanced all that much from what echoes down to us from the Vedas and other early cosmological mythologies.

The best thing I like is that you are teaching various texts…a real trigger for real inquiry. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

It's not a myth. It's pure science. Vedas are written as a way to the life & Universe. Faiths were formed after that. So the title should be vedic science.

Great effort overall to explain this verse. The translation of devas is not gods- this was only a very British invention who didn''t get this. Hence the confusion that Peter has why the 'one' arose before the gods. In Hinduism, we have the holy trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. The devas and asuras are celestial and supernatural beings who live on other planets ( lok). For example Indra lives on Indra lok ( abode of Indra). For example, Ravana in the Ramayana is an asura who also had supernatural powers. When one reads stories from THE PURANAS(another set of Indian texts like the Vedas), there is mention of people traveling from earth to other planets ( lok) belonging to the devas. Clearly mentioned in these puranas is the fact that when a man travels from earth to these other planets and returns to earth they find that their parents and friends have grown old and yet others have passed away. I read these stories as a child and didn't know that we had a scientific term to describe it. Later in life, I came to know that this is called Time Dilation. It is as if someone had written 'Interstellar' more than 5000 years ago.

Very interesting facts about hindu concept of God or Brahman is that it is described as formless, nameless and qualitiless.when other god concepts say god is all good.here god is neutral.bcz it manifested as universe and there are good and bad things both.Very interesting and smart view of God.

According to Sanatan Dharma, The Vedas are Millions of years old. Since it was first known to Brahma whose age is classified in millions, Vedas are millions of years old and not composed by anyone.

Your background looks very good .

If you have an email then I can send you an traditional detailed explanation of this verse. Most English translators know nothing about Sanskrit grammar and they miss the real meaning.

Your video is really great. Don't worry about the critics. I really appreciate your time and effort to research and present us through your video. Thank you very much. Keep going!! Love from India.

Simple and aptly put sir.

The sense of wonder shows nicely in your smile ☺️🙏

In the Vedic creation story the void, or nothingness and the profound absence are always present. You can find them if you search for them. The nothingness lies underneath existence and the profound absence lies beyond that and cannot be perceived physically.

Interesting video

I am looking forward for more videos.

Not by brahmins but by rishis, rishi =/= brahmin.

This is the 'Nasadiya Sukta' (10.129) of RigVeda. In my view, it is the most ancient expression of Agnosticism. First and foremost, there is intellectual integrity to confess, ',We don't know, even the Gods don't know'. There are many questions, which is a sign of inquisitiveness, the foundation of Science.

We really want men of your knowledge to show the light of differences that exist in objects of reality to the people.

What number or chapter is that in the Rig veda?

Please don’t just google and say any thing for ancient text like the Rig Ved. Can do your research or can analyse below For your information Nilesh Nilakanth oak has claimed below dates with proof and his book is also launched Ramayan- 12209 BC Mahabharata- 5561 BC Rig Ved - 22000 BC Surya Sidhartha- 40000 BC

There is no one of the ancient culture. There’s only one ancient culture in the entire world that is Indian culture. Everything came from there. No need to get offended because we say “Vasudeva Kutumbakam” which means the world is one family. There are no boundaries of colour, race and list can go. We’re all creations of the creator. You can address him with different names.

"He" is the limitation of the english translation. The cause is described as without any features or describable properties, aka "Nirguna"

Great study 🙌🙌🙌

In the purusha sukta there is a verse that says the one that is not possible to be born is born as many/everything(ajayamano bahudha vijayate), which explains that premodial being.

Veda means knowledge,which is not written earlier, it is passed throughout generation by remembrance.the sound of recitation.max Muller an Sanskrit German scholar translated it into German language, which was later translated to many language, but not with same depth of understandability.

In earth modern Humans are just 250000 years old. But before humans there are millions of great civilizations like humans are originated and destroyed in earth we are not first And vedas explained this deeply like Yugas theory. I think today humans are not capable of understanding Vedas theory may be after 3000- 4000 years we will understand. Just like 2000 years ago people are laughing on Vedic Vimana theory people believed this is impossible to flying any house like things. But today this is proved and Aircraft, plane's are flying. May be many things we will understand in future because vedas are countined form first life with deep knowledge. Har Har mahadev

What a beautiful and insightful interpretation of the Nasadiya Suktam. Truly, one of the most beautiful creations hymns in ancient literature and evidence of the emergence of philosophical man. I just wanted to add, I recently also use to believe that the Vedas proclaim the "ONE" or "ekam sat" but after watching a great presentation on the mathematics of ancient India and the definition of zero found in Brahmagupta's text as infinite positive numbers and infinite negative numbers, that its made me look back at this hymn with fresh eyes and also the Buddhist doctrine of "sunyata". The hymn proclaims that in the beginning was the ONE, and the ONE became MANY, but it seems to hint at a state prior to the ONE, because it raises a question as to the ultimate origins of the ONE, and even asks whether the ONE the highest surveyor of creation knows or does not know. This hints that the Vedic seers were pointing to an ultimate origin, an ultimate reality or existence that is not the ONE, but from which the ONE itself came. What comes before ONE? Zero. You also rightly pick up on the parallel between modern cosmology and the Nasadiya suktam, that it suggests a big bang. The later Samkhya philosophers take this to a level of more than a parallel, it practically is identical to the modern cosmology. The Samkhya philosophers talk about the reality prior to this creation as a singular, undifferentiated infinite but unmanifest matter in which the modes of change or motion or gunas are in equilibrium. Then something causes the gunas to come out of balance, leading to the creation of infinite universes, each one finite, differentiated and singular, to be conceived of in the Vaishnava tradition later to be like bubbles emanating from a cosmic foam. The first guna to become active is "rajas" which causes a sudden and massive explosion of energy(in later Tantra cosmology called "Bindu-Vishpot" or point-explosion) and the energy expands outwards to become matter and evolve into all material objects. At the end of creation phase of the cycle, the destruction cycle goes into reverse. In other words infinite universes are born every moment and expand contract. Every "ONE" is coming from the same "ZERO"

What beautiful and lucid commentary on a beautiful suktam

Really good Narration

I really liked how you read it. The story is: there is a God or Force that created the god Vishnu which is the God of the Universe ( universe = Vishva). When Vishnu realized he exists he wondered where he came from. So the energy of the Vishnu is our universe.

I’m wondering is the One is Ishvara and the gods are the Devas/Devis?

I sense your amazement & awe when you read those 'creation' lines lines from the Rig Veda. It is no different in some ways to Dr Karl Sagan's reaction when he read those same words in his documentary some forty years ago. However it appeared that, apparently Dr Sagan could not depart from his Western mindset, and concluded that minds that came up with this advanced notion & thought, did so accidentally and therefore it must have been mythical! I am no Dr Sagan, but after purging my brain of Western thought, I came to a very different conclusion. These minds who speculated on the 'creation' of everything were indeed very far advanced; perhaps we are only now realizing how advance some of this thought prowess was, because with the advantage of 'modern science' we able to 'see' that having a 'Abrahamian' omnipotent God doesn't quite cut it! As you observe the Rig Veda does not TELL what to believe whilst the Bible DEMANDS it! I have thought about this Rig Veda line for over forty years, and whilst I have no evidence for it, I thought the sages who came up with this 'thought' must have a direct line of knowledge to others who came before them that believed this and because of this felt no need to build temples & monuments to 'Gods', etc., because there was no evidence for them during these very early times. The only civilization that springs to mind that seemingly had no temples etc. was the Saraswati (Indus) civilization. Is it possible the earliest Vedas reflected this? If so, then the so called Indo-Aryans merely came to absorb these 'thoughts' and continued to speak of them after they arrived on the scene, probably in dribs & drabs over decades, possibly centuries. Perhaps all the 'Gods' that eventually came to be, were just local entities that early humans associated with the every day activities of living, and were purely Natural events & entities that had been over time anthropomorphized. I merely applied observation & logic to these 'thoughts' and over time I believe human minds overlay and/or merge earlier concepts on to 'modern' ones. On a separated (but convoluted) tangent, it is why I believe that the Indus Valley scripts were not really a language to start with, but symbols (very much like road signs) because the people who populated the Indus Civilization were very diverse - maybe even linguistically. In such a community (or groups of them), a lingua franca may be inefficient/ineffective to convey basic information quickly. This is perhaps why whilst we find Indus seals in Mesopotamia, there appears none to be found in the Indus Valley! Anyway, just some thoughts!

Before written Veda Mantras onto paper, Baramns used to teach through vocals to children at that time, so no one intentionally did wrong purport of Vedas mantra ...

As far as I remember from my Sanskrit classes, there is actually no specific words for “he” and “she”. In Hindi, both he and she are “woh” (वह) and in Nepali “uhaa” (उॅंहा).

"The ONE" is the best name you can think of for that primordial cause of all causes which came later. Rather than an authoritative claim, the reality is always inquisitive, has always been and will always be.

Great work ❤️

Which translation are your reading?

Good one man

Rig Veda is WAY WAY older than Christian West wants to admit.