(RV 1.50.10)
udvayam tamasas-pari jyotish-pashyanta
uttaram,
devam devatrā sūryam-aganma jyotir-uttamam.
Beholding the higher Light beyond the darkness
we came to the Divine Sun in the Godhead, to the highest Light of
all.
Man is beset with endless obscurities of nature and well nigh lost
in the darkness of Ignorance and unconsciousness that surrounds
him. But there is in him a soul which refuses to be so imprisoned.
It aspires for light, creates openings in its enclosing walls by
aspiration and will and pushes in the direction of the spiritual
light that is above the prevailing psychological darkness.
Following the rays of this supernal light—refusing to be side
tracked by other lesser attractions—one arrives ultimately at the
glorious Sun of Truth, the Divine Sun of which the physical sun on
earth is a material symbol.
(RV 1.115.1)
chitram devānām udagād anīkam
chakshur-mitrasya-varuņasya-agneĥ,
āprā dyāvāpŗthivī antariksham
sūrya ātmā jagatas-tasthuşhash-cha.
The wonderful face of the Gods has arisen the eye of the Mitra,
Varuņa and Agni the Sun has filled the Heaven and Earth and the
middle space, He, the soul of all that moves and moves not.
Surya is both the highest Light and the highest truth. The light
of the physical solar orb seen in the physical form or body of
that Divine Sun. To the Vedic rishis there is only one universal
Deva of which all other names are alike forms and cosmic aspects.
Surya is the symbol of this universal Deva. He is the soul of all
that moves and moves not. (1.50.10) Declares Surya to be the
highest Light of all, the Surya attained by the rishis. He is the
eye of Mitra and Varuna, the gods of harmony and vastness. The Sun
inside us and Sun outside is covered by darkness, the forces of
ignorance. When, by the force of tapas, he wakes up destroying the
forces of ignorance. He ascends with his seven shining horses or
energies to the utter ocean of the higher existence. He leads us
to the Truth and Immortality beyond evil and darkness.
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