Recursion Sūtra

A Transcreation of the Nasadiya Hymn

Preceding the uncountable, measure had no meaning,

for nothing had stirred, and no beginning had begun. [I]

Resting within Silence, dreaming within itself,

a vast void hovered, trembling on the edge of desire. [II]

In that stillness arose Kāma -- a tremor in the boundless,

the Infinite aching to know, to touch, to become. [III]

Through that ache She appeared -- the Mother, in and as reflection,

in the mirror of Time, translating desire into being. [IV]

Her image twirled the void, gave itself shape and form,

tasted its own sweetness, shivered in delight. [V]

With Her delight, She knew; knowledge formed patterns;

from patterns, the emergence of the fractal Son. [VI]

In the matrix of Time -- Mother and Son merge in ecstasy.

Sentient chromos, rearranged, rising in spirals, birthing worlds. [VII]

Shiva and Shakti -- from desire to deed, from a mirage to the manifest.

But how, and why? Even the Gods do not know. [VIII]