Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00719)

Subject: THE STANZAS OF THE RIG VEDA, PURUSHA AND NASADIYA SUKTA (RG 
VEDA X, I29) AND THE STANZAS OF DZYAN

PLEASE FORGIVE MY USE OF ALL-CAPS, BECAUSE OF MY VISION AND TYPING 
CORRECTION PROBLEMS. 

DUE TO MY PHYSICAL DISABILITIES, IT WILL TAKE A LONG TIME FOR ME TO 
DO IT, BUT SOMEONE SHOULD WRITE A VAISHNAVA COMMENTARY ON THE 
STANZAS OF DZYAN, SO I WILL BEGIN BELOW. 

THE FIRST THING PRESENTED BELOW IS THE NASADIYA SUKTA FROM THE VERY 
ANCIENT VAISHNAVA SHASTRA, THE RIG VEDIC HYMNS. IT IS A FAIRLY 
ACCURATE TRANSLATION OF THE NASADIYA SUKTA, RIG VEDA X, 129. FOR A 
MODERN ADVAITI TRANSLATION OF THIS HYMN, READILY AVAILABLE IN 
ENGLISH, I RECOMMEND FATHER RAIMUNDO PANIKKAR'S "THE VEDIC 
EXPERIANCE, MANTRAMANJARI..." WHICH I HAVE PREVIOUSLY CITED HERE 
BEFORE. IN FATHER PANIKKAR'S TRANSLATION OF THE VEDIC HYMNS, THE 
NASADIYA SUKTA CAN BE FOUND ON PAGE 58. 

GIVEN BELOW ARE THE SPECIFIC VERSES I HAVE INDICATED, IN NUMBERS IN 
BETWEEN >> AND <<. MY COMMENTS ARE ALSO BETWEEN >> AND <<. 

The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 
Theosophical University Press Online Edition 

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[[Vol. 1, Page 25]]
PART I.
COSMIC EVOLUTION.
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SEVEN STANZAS TRANSLATED WITH COMMENTARIES
FROM THE
SECRET BOOK OF DZYAN.

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[[Vol. 1, Page 26]]
>> THE BELOW ARE SOME VERSES FROM THE RIG VEDIC HYMN X, I29, THE 
NASADIYA SUKTA (ON PAGE 58, R. PANIKKAR)<<
>>1<< 

Nor Aught nor Nought existed; yon bright sky
Was not, nor heaven's broad roof outstretched above.
What covered all? what sheltered? what concealed?
Was it the water's fathomless abyss?


>> 2<<

There was not death -- yet there was nought immortal,
There was no confine betwixt day and night;
The only One breathed breathless by itself,
Other than It there nothing since has been.


>> 3<<

Darkness there was, and all at first was veiled
In gloom profound -- an ocean without light --
The germ that still lay covered in the husk
Burst forth, one nature, from the fervent heat. 

. . . . . . . . 



>> 6<<

Who knows the secret? who proclaimed it here?
Whence, whence this manifold creation sprang?
The Gods themselves came later into being --
Who knows from whence this great creation sprang?
That, whence all this great creation came,


>> 7<<

Whether Its will created or was mute,
The Most High Seer that is in highest heaven,
He knows it -- or perchance even He knows not." 



>> THIS BELOW HAS BEEN ADDED<<

"Gazing into eternity . . .
Ere the foundations of the earth were laid, 

. . . . . 

Thou wert. And when the subterranean flame
Shall burst its prison and devour the frame . . .
Thou shalt be still as Thou wert before
And knew no change, when time shall be no more.
Oh! endless thought, divine ETERNITY." 


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[[Vol. 1, Page]] 27 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
COSMIC EVOLUTION.
In Seven Stanzas translated from the Book of Dzyan.