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'''Hiranyagarbha '''

Hiranyagarbha finds mention in one hymn of the  Ṛ igveda (  .121), known as the ' Hira ṇ yagarbha Sūkta' , suggesting a single creator deity verse 8: “ yo deve 'ṣ 'v ādhi devā eka āsīt   !” This Divinity identified as  God of gods in the hymn as  Prajapati. The concept of the golden womb is again mentioned in <span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">   <span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> <span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Ṛ <span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">igveda 10-82.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Hira <span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">ṇ <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">yagarbha Sūkta of the  <span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Ṛ <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">igveda declares that God manifested Himself in the beginning as the Creator of the Universe, encompassing all things, including everything within Himself, the collective totality, as it were, of the whole of creation, animating it as the Supreme Intelligence.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Hiranyagarbha literally means "golden fetus" or "golden womb" or Egg-shaped cosmos or <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";background:#F9F9F9">Brahmā <span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-ascii-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";background:#F9F9F9">ṇḍ <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";background:#F9F9F9">a, <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> is a beginning of the  <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif""><span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">   <span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">floated around in emptiness for a while, and then broke into two halves. The primordial being comes into existence by "hatching" from the  <span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">, on the   <span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">waters of the Earth.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Egg-shaped cosmos <span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-style: italic">lower half transformed as the Earth below. And its upper half transmuted as the Sky above. From the yolk the Sun was made, shining the Light of the day and all the colored brighter bits rose to be the stars of heaven! <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Hiranyagarbha was present at the beginning  <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">was the Divinity in his splendor, manifested as the sole Lord of land, skies, water, space and that beneath and He upheld the earth and the heavens!

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">This is the Divinity, the God of gods, who bestows soul-force, <span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">strength and vigor <span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">is the giver of soul and whose shadow is immortal life and death.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">By the<span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> greatness of this Divinity, <span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">  <span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> the sole king of the breathing and seeing world, who rules over this aggregate of two-footed and four-footed beings of man and bird and beast!

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">By the<span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> grace of this Divinity,<span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> whose are the two arms are the quarters of the sky and glory the snow-clad mountains rose, and the ocean <span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">with the rivers spread.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">By whom the sky was made profound and the earth solid, by which heaven and the solar sphere were fixed, who was the measure of the water in the firmament !<span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">It is that Divinity, through whom the heaven is strong and the earth firm, who has steadied the light and the sky's vault, and measured out the sphere of clouds in the mid-region.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif""> It is that to whom heaven and earth, placed in the light by his grace, look up, radiant with the mind while over them the sun, rising, brightly shines.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">When the vast waters overspread the universe containing the germ and giving birth to Agni, then was produced the one breath of the gods, held the waters all around containing the creative power and giving birth<span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif""> masters of many treasures in harmony!

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Who is the deity we shall worship with our offerings? May that object of our desires for which we sacrifice to thee be ours, may we be the possessors of riches!

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">……….Sivkishen, Author, Kingdom of Shiva