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Hindu Ideas of Creation

In Our Time

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The Golden Boom

The universe is not ex-nehalo, it's not a creation from nothing, but it's generated out of pre-existing substance. Every verse ends with a refrain, who is this deity to whom we offer worship? He keeps asking this question. And I read that as a way of constantly undermining the explanations that the authors themselves are offering. It seems more as if the imagination fills the void, but is aware at all times that it is only the imagination.

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