The non-existent was not then,
Nor was the existent,
The earth was not, nor the firmament,
Nor that which is beyond,
(When there was nothing then), what could cover what,
And where and in whose care did the waters and bottomless deep then exist?
-Rig Veda (10.129.1)
Vedas have been in verbal form for least 32, 000 BC in India. The city of Dwarka is at least that old and 3 Vedas were before that. Upanishads are selected Mantras from Vedas. Upnishads deal with God as unmanifest in every being. Ancient India was first in language, Yoga, Mathematics, and Science. It had first world universities as early as 500 BC namely: Takshila and Nalanda. International Students dispersed its knowledge in their homelands. E.g., Baudhayana Sutra became Pythagorean theorem.
