The One Unmanifested, Attributeless One
There was neither existence nor non-existence then, neither air nor sky which is beyond it... There was neither death nor immortality, nor any sign of night or day. There breathed the One airless, by self-impulse. Apart from That was nothing whatsoever.
Darkness was concealed in darkness there, and all this was indiscriminate chaos. Then the ONE which was covered by the void was manifested through the light of Tapas.
The One is Lord all that moves and that is fixed, of what walks, what flies - the multiform creation.
The loving sage beholds That Reality which lies hidden in mystery, where the universe finds one single home. In That all this unites, from That all this emerges. The all-pervading One is warp and woof in created things.
The ONE manifests as personal Deities
They speak of Indra, Mitra, Varuna, Agni. The One Reality the sages call by many names as Agni, Yama, Matarisva. Agni, verily, is That, Aditya is That, Vayu is That, Chandrama is That. The Light is That, Brahma is That, Apah are That, Prajapati is That.
Tell me of the Support of the Universe: who is that One Being... on whom Agni, Chandrama, Surya and Vata rest? In His body existed the thirty three devas by dividing themselves into its limbs. Those alone who knew Brahman knew the three and thirty devas.
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