Agnosticism Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Hindu philosophy=== {{See also|Sanjaya Belatthaputta|AjΓ±ana}} Throughout the history of [[Hinduism]] there has been a strong tradition of philosophic speculation and skepticism.<ref name="Kramer1986" /><ref>{{cite web |author=Subodh Varma |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/spirituality/vintage-wisdom/The-gods-came-afterwards/articleshow/6014217.cms?referral=PM |title=The gods came afterwards |work=[[The Times of India]] |date=May 6, 2011 |access-date=June 9, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151105235331/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/spirituality/vintage-wisdom/The-gods-came-afterwards/articleshow/6014217.cms?referral=PM |archive-date=November 5, 2015 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref> The [[Rig Veda]] takes an agnostic view on the fundamental question of how the universe and the gods were created. [[Nasadiya Sukta]] (''Creation Hymn'') in the tenth chapter of the Rig Veda says:<ref name="Kramer1986">{{cite book|author=Kenneth Kramer|title=World Scriptures: An Introduction to Comparative Religions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RzUAu-43W5oC&pg=PA34|date=January 1986|publisher=Paulist Press|isbn=978-0-8091-2781-8|pages=34β}} </ref><ref name="Christian2011"> {{cite book|last=Christian |first=David|title=Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7RdVmDjwTtQC&pg=PA18|date=September 1, 2011|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-95067-2|pages=18β}} </ref><ref name="Singh2008"> {{cite book|author=Upinder Singh|title=A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H3lUIIYxWkEC&pg=PA206|year=2008|publisher=Pearson Education India|isbn=978-81-317-1120-0|pages=206β}}</ref> {{blockquote|<poem>But, after all, who knows, and who can say Whence it all came, and how creation happened? The gods themselves are later than creation, so who knows truly whence it has arisen? Whence all creation had its origin, He, whether he fashioned it or whether he did not, He, who surveys it all from highest heaven, He knows β or maybe even he does not know.</poem>}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page