When There Was Neither Nothing Nor Something
Then there was neither nothing nor something. No sky, no vast space beyond it. What covered it all — and where, and in whose keeping?
Do I imagine I know how everything began, or can I fall silent before it?
📝Reflection
One of the oldest poems humanity left behind begins, astonishingly, with 'I do not know.' Three thousand years ago the poet, facing the beginning of the world, invented no myth but simply gazed at the place where even the words 'nothing' and 'something' could not reach. How often do I rush to fill great questions with answers. This verse gives not an answer but the sheer size of the question — the Vedic form of the humility in which Socrates said, 'I know that I know nothing.'
🌱Apply It Today
When you feel the urge to say 'I know all about it' today, swallow it and say aloud, once, 'I do not yet know.'
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
