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Hiranyagarbha : The Golden Womb, the Golden Egg is the source of the manifested Cosmos in Vedic philosophy as well as an avatar of Vishnu in the Bhāgavata. The Hiraṇyagarbha Sūkta (Rig Veda 10.121, verse 8) says: He is the God of gods. Vishvakarman Sūkta (Rig Veda 10.82) too speaks of Hiraṇyagarbha as the Golden Womb. Vedanta calls Hiraṇyagarbha the Soul of the Universe or the Brahman, & elaborates that it floated around in emptiness & the darkness of the non-existence for about a year, & then broke into two halves which formed the Swarga & the Pṛthvi. According to Matsya Purāṇa (2.25-30), after Mahāprālaya, the Ultimate Dissolution of the Manifested Cosmos, there was darkness everywhere. Everything was in Sushupti, dream sleep, there was nothing, either moving or static. Then the Swayambhu, the self-manifest Being arose. It created the primordial waters first & established the seed of creation into it. The seed turned into the Golden Womb or Egg, Hiraṇyagarbha & Swayambhu entered it. That is the origin of all Creation. In Manu Smṛti 1.9 Hiraṇyagarbha is also Brahmā, because he was born from a golden egg. The Nārāyaṇa Sūkta exclaims that everything that is, visible or invisible, all this is pervaded by Nārāyaṇa within & without. The Īśvara Upaniṣad says that Īśvara, Shiva, the Creator, pervades the Creation, He is all that is dynamic & all that is static; He is far & near; within & without everything.