"That One"; the impersonal singular principle that, in the Nasadiya Sukta (Rigveda 10.129), breathed windless by its own power before being, non-being, and the gods. Often read forward as a seed of the non-dual Brahman.

Where this term appears

• The Nasadiya Sukta: the hymn that ends in doubt Journal →

  Then, verse two, the first positive thing the hymn will allow: "That One Thing, breathless, breathed by its own nature: apart from it was nothing whatsoever." Anid avatam svadhaya tad ekam.

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