Non-being and Being
“Asat and Sat”
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
asat · being · non-being · sat · the Existent · the Non-existent
spoken of as
1 expressionBeing and Non-being“Sat and Asat”1 mention
Rigveda (Sanskrit)
Both the Non-existent and the Existent are in the highest firmament, in the birth of Dakṣa, in the lap of Aditi.
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Non-being and Being (Asat and Sat), a philosophical polarity debated and located within the Pillar in the riddle hymn.
People know the branch of non-being as if it were the highest support;
Where the worlds and the treasuries are, where people know the sacred power to be, where non-being and being are within — tell us that Pillar, which one precisely is it?
Those gods named the Bṛhant ones were born from non-being;
Rigveda
The paired cosmological categories located in the highest firmament, in the birth of Dakṣa and the lap of Aditi.
Both the Non-existent and the Existent are in the highest firmament, in the birth of Dakṣa, in the lap of Aditi.