In the beginning there was neither nought nor aught.
Then there was neither sky nor atmosphere above,
What then enshrouded all this universe ?
In the receptacle of what was it contained ?
Then was there neither death nor immortality,
Then was neither day nor night, nor light, nor darkness,
Only the Existent one breathed calmly self contained.
-Rig (10.21.1)
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.
