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Hindu Ideas of Creation

In Our Time

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The One and the Many

The idea that a single being divided into the universe in his body or emanates the universe through his body, or in some sense becomes the world is developed much further. In what way? Well, if you look at texts in the Rigveda, we have these mythic accounts,. Once you get to the Upanishads, which are slightly more philosophical texts in, say, 500 BCE-ish, we have people trying to think about how this really would work.

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