Sikh creation account.
Sikhism was founded was Guru Nanak Dev, and is a syncretic offshoot of Hinduism. Inclusive though Hinduism is, Sikhism goes even further in that direction.
God in Sikhism is conceived as being Formless, Indescribable, timeless transcendent Being as described in Chhandogya Upa.
Sikh philosophy is derived directly from Upanishads, the originating works from which various philosophies sprang. Not surprisingly, Sikh creation account too parallels Hindu thoughts.
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Page 1035 of he Grantha.
For millions upon millions, countless years was spread darkness,
When existed neither earth nor heaven, but only the limitless Divine Word.
[In the "beginning" was Word of God only, without a second]
Then existed neither day or night, nor sun or moon;
As the Creator was absorbed in an unbroken trance [samadhi].
Existed then neither forms of creation, nor of speech; neither wind nor water.
[All was part of the Indescribable Transcendent God, Who does not have attributes]
Neither was creation or disappearance or transmigration.
Then were not continents, neither regions, the seven seas, nor rivers with water flowing.
[Every thing was in primordial state including matter, energy and souls]
Existed then neither heaven or the mortal world or the nether world;
Neither hell or heaven or time that destroys.
Hell and heaven, birth and death were then not--none arrived or departed.
[The whole cosmos being contained in the passive Brahmma during His night (spanning 4.32 billion years), nothing tangible or intangible existed, except in Him, Whose Word existed even though He Himself was passive during that period.]
Then were not Brahma, Vishnu or Shiva:
[This Brahma is Cosmic ideal as opposed to the Acosmic Absolute. Cosmic personal gods too were not there, only the Acosmic one and His Word were there]
None other than the Sole Lord was visible.
[This the ParaBrahmma, the Absolute]
Neither existed then female or male, or caste and birth--
None suffering and joy received.
Unknowable Himself, was He the source of all utterance; Himself the unknowable unmanifested.
[Chh Upa. describes the Absolute as unKnowable and unmanifested]
As it pleased Him, the world He created;
Without a supporting power the expanse He sustained. Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva He created and to maya-attachment gave increase.
(To a rare one was the Master's Word imparted.)
Himself He made His Ordinance operative and watched over it:
Creating continents, spheres and nether worlds, the hidden He made manifest.
Creating the universe Himself, He has remained unattached.
The compassionate Lord too has made the holy center [the human being].
[The Absolute is not exhausted by His creative effort. All is within Him still, part of His Cosmic body and soul]
Combining air, water, and fire, He created the citadel of the body.
The Creator fashioned the Nine Abodes [of sensation];
In the Tenth [the super-conscious mind] is lodged the Lord, unknowable, limitless.
The illimitable Lord in His unattributed state of void assumed might;
He, the infinite One, remaining detached:
Displaying his power, He himself from the void created inanimate things.
[Void refers to the uncreated world contained within Him, not the NOTHING or a singularity]
From the unattributed void were created air and water.
Raising creation, He dwells as monarch in the citadel of the body.
Lord! In the fire and water [of the body] exists Thy light;
In Thy [original] state of void was lodged [un-manifest] the power of creation.
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In Sikhism the universe is eternal and immortal and vast.
P 276
There are crores and crores of galaxies and
solar systems in the universe. The
phenomenon of creation has occurred
so many times. But the
one Lord remains for ever and ever.
1 Crore= 10 Million