Nasadiya Sukta found inn Rig Veda (chapter X 129) is a hymn in seven verses ascribed to Prajapati. The Sukta is associated with creation of the world. The name of the sukta is Nasadiya because the hymn is beginning with Nasada. It is a bhavavritta (Brihaddevata 8. 45-46), i.e., an account of becoming, as given below: In the beginning, this universe was neither existent nor non-existent. There was neither the atmosphere, nor the heaven beyond, no substratum and so nothing to cover, no death, no immortality, nor any sign of night and day. It was darkness hidden by darkness. Perhaps there was impervious primeval water – an indistinguishable, all pervasive fluid. That One, arising through the power of tapas, breathed without air by His inherent power. First, desire came into being as the seed of the mind. Searching in their heart through the power of the mind, the wise ones have found out the bond of existence in the non-existent. And that bond has spread everywhere. But all this i