[ 6 J the darkness of the nebula. So we have it in the Rigveda, “aritoral strati " "And then darkness came out". And so too we have it in Mantt : श्रासोदिदं तमीभूतमप्रज्ञातमन्तचत्रणम् । अप्रतर्क्यमविज्ञेयं प्रसुप्तमिव सब्बैत: ॥ १म श्र: । "This world remained (viz. ni ihe beginning of days) unknown, unknowable, shrouded in darkness ←ᏋᎸᎦ i} wrapped in deep slumber." And so loo in modern science we are told : “Thore is anoihor curious faci, and ihis is ilial the kind of stuff the sun is made of is the same as the kind of stuff that the various planels are made of li almost looks, does it not ? as if our liffle earth and ali the planels wore once a part of the sun. The sun is made of the samo sluff as lhe earth. The sun and all his planels were once one. Indeed. we believe that, in the first sta àfic: solar system was noihing else ihan a neb e one of the very smallest of the housands of nebulae that we now see in the sky." And ihe Chhandogya Upamishad, Pari II, chap. १. tells us : “तद्रेच्तत् वचु स्यां प्रजायय इति तत्तजीऽख्ठजत । ततेज ऐचत बडु सयां प्रजायेय इति तदपोऽमृजत ” “The Supreme Being willed to be many; hence fire (or force) gręv': oul of His will, and from fire, water. Yea, the
