"Spaceless, timeless, yet in its own way dynamic and the Sole Force, this Absolute..." Brereton (1999) argues that the reference to the sages searching for being in their spirit is central, and that the hymn's gradual procession from non-being to being in fact re-enacts creation within the listener (see ), equating poetic utterance and creation (see śabda). Metre Nasadiya Sukta consists of seven trishtubhs, although para 7b is defective, being two syllables short, "if he has created it; or if not [...]" Brereton (1999) argues that the defect is a conscious device employed by the rishi to express puzzlement at the possibility that the world may not be created, parallel to the syntactic defect of pada 7d, which ends in a subordinate clause without a governing clause: "he verily knows; or maybe he does not know [...]" Text and translation See also Creation myth Creatio ex nihilo God in Hinduism Hindu cosmology Hiranyagarbha Indian logic List of suktas and stutis Narayana sukta Neti neti Purusha Sukta Notes Further reading Joel P. Brereton, Edifying Puzzlement: 10. 129 and the Uses of Enigma, Journal of the American Oriental Society (1999) P. T. Raju, The Development of Indian Thought, Journal of the History of Ideas (1952) Karel Werner, Symbolism in the Vedas and Its Conceptualisation, Numen (1977) Agnosticism Creation myths Rigveda Vedic hymns Hindu creation myths Hindu cosmology