What was there before everything?

Conversation between Narada Muni and his father Lord Brahma, Excerpt from Shiva Shakti Purana.

Narada Muni who was interested in learning about the source of the creation asks his father Lord Brahma.

What was there before everything?

What was there,

when, ‘there’ and ‘here’, were not there?

What was it like, when ‘now’ and ‘then’ were not there?

What was there?

Lord Brahma replies,

NOTHING!

No Sun, No Moon, No Stars, No Light…!

Darkness alone was there!

No Fire; No Wind; No Earth; No water; No Sky; No day; No night…

No Nature; No manifestation of anything!

Emptiness, without Light!

No Past; No Present; No Future!

No Sound; No Smell; No Sight; No Taste; No Touch! No Quarters!

What was there? NOTHING!

Only Darkness existed! Darkness, so dark, that a needle could pierce it!

If Darkness alone was there If Darkness alone existed, What supported the existence of darkness?

EXISTENCE ALONE WAS THERE.

SAT alone WAS!

SAT alone IS!

SAT alone WILL BE!

SAT means neither Existence, nor Non-Existence.

SAT is beyond SAT and ASAT!

Because, SAT is beyond the grasp of the words. Mind cannot even imagine such a state. SAT cannot be perceived by the senses.

SAT is Brahman.

SAT is without form.

SAT is without color.

SAT is not thin or thick.

SAT is not long or short.

SAT does not grow.

SAT does not deteriorate.

SAT has no name.

VEDAS become silent when they reach it’s Presence.

THAT is Truth, Endless, Conscious, and Blissful.

THAT is SUPREME.

THAT cannot be measured.

THAT is without any other support.

THAT is changeless.

THAT is shapeless.

THAT is NIRGUNA, without characteristics of any kind.

THAT is ONE.

THAT is all pervading.

THAT is without any sort of disturbance.

THAT is without any problem.

THAT has no Beginning; No End.

THAT was aware of ITSELF; No Second Object was there.

THAT WAS ALONE.

THAT WAS ALONE.

THAT had a Disturbance.

WHY? HOW? Nobody Knows.

THAT ALONE KNOWS.

If you become THAT; If you reach that Supreme State and know that you are SAT -there is no secondary person to reveal this fact. When you reach that state and ask the question, ‘Why did you get disturbed?’ –Nobody is there to answer, because –you alone are there. No questions arise; No answer is there.

THAT WANTED TO BECOME TWO!

WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY?

NO ANSWER! NO ANSWER! NO ANSWER! NO ANSWER!

A salt doll went to measure the ocean; It never found the answer.

A rain drop wanted to measure the depth of the ocean; it never found the answer.

The stream of the river wanted to reach the end of the ocean; it never did.

When you reach the Greatest ‘I’ to ask the question – “HOW DID YOU BECOME ‘I’ AND ‘YOU’?

There is no one to answer you, because ‘YOU’ are ‘I’.

Nobody is there to ask the question. Nobody is there to answer.

ONE BECAME MANY.