The moon also does it, but only partially. Only the sun can keep the darkness of Death forever out of our existence. If the sun symbolizes life, the darkness of night represents Death itself, who is described in the Vedas as the great devourer with insatiable appetite for the things of the world.Īs long as darkness exists in our hearts and minds, death exists in our being and slowly devours us. He is the great nourisher who keeps all life thriving and ensures the regularity of day and night, seasons and other celestial phenomena. The sun completely drives away darkness upon earth and ushers in bright light. It is why the first daily offerings or the morning prayers in Vedic tradition are customarily made to the sun before they are offered to others. However, those who worship gods and others go to them before they reach him, while those who worship him reach him directly. This idea is reemphasized in the Bhagavadgita when Lord Krishna says that all paths eventually lead to him only. Through them the offerings ultimately reach Brahman (Sun) only. He distributes them among gods (devas) who are light beings and partake the nature of Sun (Brahman) just as the rays that emanate from him. The first recipient of all offerings in a Vedic sacrifice is Agni (Sun). They were the sacred fires such as those which burned in the sun, the moon and the heavens, and into which the devas descended every day when the daily sacrifices were offered to them. In other words, the sacrificial fires were no ordinary fires which were used for domestic purposes. If by any chance, the fires died down, they had to rekindle them ritually after performing penitentiary rites. Hence, Vedic people kept sacrificial fires continuously burning in their homes to keep darkness and evil forces away. He radiates warmth and protects worshippers, driving away darkness and evil from their homes, hearts and minds.Īgni can also be extremely destructive and unleash great fury. Agni is his dynamic aspect upon earth as well as in heaven. In Vedic tradition, the sun symbolizes Brahman as well as Agni, the fire god. Although they worshipped numerous gods and goddesses and made them offerings, the ultimate recipient of those offerings was the sun god only. They worshipped sun as the highest God (Brahman) and the moon (Chandra or Soma) as one of the heavenly beings. Vedic people were primarily sun worshippers. The world which exists in the sphere of the moon is the ancestral world and that which exists in the sphere of the sun is the immortal world of Brahman. They are the obvious reference to the journey of the departed souls to the two higher worlds which are believed to exist in the sphere of the sun and the moon respectively. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.The two paths are also known as the Northern path (uttarayana) and the Southern path (dakshinayana). Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse. The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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