Rediscovery of India

If I have to quote something from scriptures to introduce Hinduism to uninitiated (a difficult if not impossible task ), I will like to quote following.

"Then was neither non-existence nor existence: There was no realm of air, no sky beyond it. What covered it, and where? And what gave shelter? Was there, an unfathomed depth of water?

Death was not then, nor was there anything immortal: no sign was there, the Day's and Night's divider. That One Thing, breathless, breathed by its own nature: apart from it was nothing whatsoever.

Darkness there was: at first concealed in darkness this All was indiscriminate chaos. All that existed then was void and formless: by the great power of Warmth was born that One.

Thereafter rose Desire in the beginning, Desire, the primal seed and germ of Spirit. Sages who searched with their heart's thought discovered the kinship of existence with non-existence.

Transversely [across the universe] was their dividing line extended: what was above it then, and what below it? There were begetters, there were mighty forces, free action here and energy up yonder.

Who verily knows and who can here declare it, whence it was born and whence comes this creation? The Gods are later than this world's production. Who knows then whence it first came into being?

He the first origin of this creation, whether he formed it all or did not form it, whose eye controls this world in highest heaven, he verily knows it, or perhaps he knows it not."

Sometimes heart fills with humbleness to think that such wisdom existed millenniums ago .
Imagination fails to grasp even atom of the divine power which came and wrote Vedas.

Notice the uncertainty in the end, only those who are free of vanity can admit any doubt.

And to say that such insight, such profundity was just some shepherd song, what outrage !