Whence was it born? Whence issued this creation? Who really knows? Who can presume to tell it? Thrust from below and forward move above. The Seers, searching in their hearts with wisdom,ĭiscovered the connection of Being in Nonbeing.Ī crosswise line cut Being from Nonbeing.īearers of seed there were and mighty forces, Stirring, through power of Ardor, came to be. That which was hidden by Void, that One, emerging, The One breathed without breath by its own impulseĭarkness was there, all wrapped around by darkness, There was no death then, nor yet deathlessness What was wrapping? Where? In whose protection? Here's a translation from Sanskrit (by Prof: Raimundo Panikkar, courtesy Google) Many years later, I discovered that the theme was the Nasadiya Sukta from the Rig Veda. it had this strange, almost hypnotic effect on me. I remember sleepy Sunday nights when I would be quietly captivated by the gravelly voices of Om Puri and Roshan Seth (as Nehru) recounting the 5000 year history of India from Vedic times to the modern-day independance struggle.īut the thing that instantly hooked me on was the title theme.
I mean, he directed the teleseries, not the childhood.
This was a long running teleseries which formed an integral part of my childhood, directed by the venerable Mr. After months of trawling through a million sites with Google, I finally manage to hunt down the title credits theme from Bharat Ek Khoj- A Discovery of India.