Re: Prayers to Surya
hariḥ oṁ
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namasté DK,
Originally Posted by
Divine Kala
The priest at my mandir, a lovely man, is very concerned about my health (it seems that every other week I come in I'm sick in some way, shape or form) and has recommended that I pray to Surya for my health.
Does anyone known any good prayers to Surya or any poojas that I could do?
First I do not have an answer to your question, but would like to offer a few ideas. All of the HDF members will offer you suggestions
with good intent. Yet no one knows you personally. So it seems wise to see a doctor for best results. You may wish to visit a vaidya
(āyurvedic doctor) as they treat the whole person ( body and mind), yet do what makes sense for your time, finances and the like.
Now, why did the priest suggest sūrya¹ as a devatā to consider for health improvement? From a jyotish point of view sūrya is the kāraka¹
for the 1st house in one's chart - tanu. Tanu means the body, person, self. So sūrya has that influence on the body.
One stays in balance with sūrya and the body stays in balance. What does sūrya own? The day , the month and the year. All growth and
health is founded on sūrya. How one spends one's day ( for the sun provides the light for work to occur) or career/profession , daily activities
are predicated on the sun and its balance.
The sun is a perfectly balanced graha (~planet~) - without this even-ness, this balance, no other planet can circle it ( have the proper
angular momentum from a physics point of view). It is considered sattvic¹ by nature ( in balance). So the more balance you can express,
the more you take on those sattvic qualities i.e. alignment with sūrya.
praṇām
words
- kāraka - instrumental in bringing about the action
- sūrya - the sun or its deity ; in the veda the name sūrya is generally distinguished from savitṛ ;
- yet as time moves on sūrya is identified with savitṛ as one of the 12 ādityas of the Sun in the 12 months of the year ,
tanu , the body , person , self
- sattva - the quality of purity ; (regarded in the sāṃkhya school as the highest of the three guṇas qualites of prakṛti because
it renders a person true , honest , pure , clean
Last edited by yajvan; 14 March 2011 at 11:17 AM.
यतस्त्वं शिवसमोऽसि
yatastvaṁ śivasamo'si
because you are identical with śiva
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