Revering the Sun .... on Kartik Shashti (this Year 24.10, IST)

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On this day we thank the SUN, the life-giver, and who represents the visible

form of GOD (pratyaksha). This day is also called " Chhath " the winter festival

of the setting Sun.

 

We remember the Gayatri-Mantra, that invokes the creative principle of the Sun

in the form named SAVITR.

 

A Hymn from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad:

 

" He who, dwelling in the Sun, yet is other than the Sun, whom the Sun does not

know, whose BODY THE SUN IS, who controls the Sun from within -HE IS YOUR SELF,

the inner controller, the IMMORTAL.

 

Sri Guru Datta, Jai Lord Surya

Parvati