Neither Being nor Non-Being
neither air nor earth nor space:
what was enclosed? where? under whose
protection?
What was water, deep, unfathomable?
Neither death nor immortality, day nor night -
but ONE breathed by itself with no wind.
Nothing else. Darkness swathed in darkness,
unmanifest water.

The ONE, hidden by void,
felt the generation of heat, came into being
as Desire, first seed of Mind...
Was there an up or down?
There were casters of seed, there were powers:
energy underneath, impulse above.
But who knows for sure?

- rg veda