A Beautiful Passage from the Rig Veda in Sri Aurobindo's "The Life Divine"

I cannot travel to the Truth of the luminous Lord by force or
by the duality. . . . Who are they that protect the foundation
of the falsehood? Who are the guardians of the unreal word?
Then existence was not nor non-existence, the mid-world was
not nor the Ether nor what is beyond. What covered all? where
was it? in whose refuge? what was that ocean dense and deep?
Death was not nor immortality nor the knowledge of day and
night. That One lived without breath by his self-law, there was
nothing else nor aught beyond it. In the beginning Darkness
was hidden by darkness, all this was an ocean of inconscience.
When universal being was concealed by fragmentation, then
by the greatness of its energy That One was born. That moved
at first as desire within, which was the primal seed of mind.
The seers of Truth discovered the building of being in nonbeing
by will in the heart and by the thought; their ray was
extended horizontally; but what was there below, what was
there above? There were Casters of the seed, there were Greatnesses;
there was self-law below, there was Will above.
                                            --Rig Veda