Why this inspired us
After asking where everything came from, the poet does something remarkable: admits that perhaps no one knows. Thousands of years ago, wonder and honest uncertainty sat side by side.
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Rig Veda 10.129.7
The reference printed on your card, and the idea behind it.
In its original context
This is the last verse of the Hymn of Creation, one of the most famous passages in the Rig Veda. Its seven verses try to imagine the moment before anything existed: when there was neither existence nor non-existence, no air and no sky, no death and no immortality, no night and no day, only darkness hidden in darkness.
The poet describes how, out of that stillness, desire stirred, the first seed of thought, and how wise people, searching in their hearts, found the link between what is and what is not. Then come the questions. Who really knows? Who can say where this came from? Even the gods arrived after creation, so who knows how it began?
This final verse answers in the most surprising way possible. Where this creation came from, whether it was made or not: the one who watches over it from the highest heaven surely knows. Or perhaps he does not know. A sacred text, thousands of years old, ends its account of creation not with certainty but with an honest question.
Something to think about
Can not knowing be a kind of wonder rather than a problem?
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