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Big Bang vs Nasadiya Sukta – Did the Rig Veda Predict It? 😱

“Then even nothingness was not, nor existence…”
— Rig Veda 10.129.1

Let’s decode the most mysterious Vedic hymn that may describe the Big Bang, thousands of years before modern science.

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In 1964, scientists discovered the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, a faint echo of the Big Bang, the supposed origin of the universe.

But go back thousands of years…

In the Rig Veda, there's a hymn, the Nasadiya Sukta (RV 10.129), that echoes the same cosmic mystery.

The hymn begins not just with certainty, but extreme humility:

“Then even nothingness was not, nor existence was there. There was no realm of air, no sky beyond it.”
(Rig Veda 10.129.1)

➡️ No time.
➡️ No space.
➡️ No existence.

This is before creation. Before anything.

Modern cosmology describes the singularity before the Big Bang as:

— No space
— No time
— No matter
— Just potentiality

The Rig Veda mirrors this eerily:

“What covered it? Where was it? In whose keeping?
Was there cosmic water, in depths unfathomed?”

This is a cosmic poetry with precision.

Even cosmologist Carl Sagan said, ‘Hindu texts like these nail cosmic scales.’

Alan Guth’s Cosmic Inflation Theory echoes Rigveda’s sudden ‘breath’!

Next, it says:

“There was neither death nor immortality then.
No distinguishing sign of night or day.”

In physics:
🔸 Time began after the Big Bang.
🔸 Without time, there's no death, no change, no day or night.

Again, exact.

Now comes a stunning verse:

“That One breathed, windless, by Its own impulse.
Other than That, there was nothing else.”

➡️ “That One” = Ekam
➡️ It breathed without air.
➡️ It existed by itself, with no cause.

This "Ekam" is described as the source of all, beyond description, or duality.

In physics, the quantum vacuum is the womb of creation, a field that spontaneously gives rise to particles.

In Vedantic terms, this is Brahman, not a being, but Being itself.

Pure, undivided potential.

👉 Exactly what the Nasadiya Sukta speaks of.

Then:

“In the beginning, there was darkness wrapped in darkness… All this was water without distinction.”

Darkness over darkness.
Energy submerged in energy.
Chaos before cosmos.

Sounds a lot like…

➤ Quantum fluctuations
➤ Primordial plasma
➤ Unified energy field

Again, parallels.

And then the first ripple:

“Desire came upon That One in the beginning, That was the first seed of mind.”

Desire = Kāma
Kāma becomes thought, then creation.

This is profound:

— First comes will
— Then comes manifestation

Creation isn’t mechanical, it’s conscious.

The hymn doesn't just explain the universe.
It wonders about it.

Even ends with a question:

“Who really knows?
Who can say from where it all came?”

This is spiritual humility even in the face of divine knowledge.

Nasadiya Sukta (नासदीय सूक्त), also known as "Hymn of Creation" is one the most famous and most discussed Suktas of Rigveda.

So... did the Rig Veda describe the Big Bang?

Maybe.

👉 But what it certainly did is this:
— Reject dogma
— Offer a cosmic vision of origin

Thousands of years ago, the Rishis whispered:
“It all began… with nothing.”

Modern science caught up.
But we had already said it.

If this moved you, share this with those who think Sanātana Dharma is “just a religion.”

It is timeless cosmology.

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