Since time immemorial seers and sages have worshipped the Sun God during the three times of offering worship each day - in the morning, noon and evening. Rising from amid the waters of that great ocean spread across the world and gracing the skies, this red eyed god giving the first ray of light, giving fruition to all the karmas created by us beings, and staying as a witness, sanctifies our minds. To worship the divine rays of the sun in the form of the Supreme Soul too has been believed to be of foremost importance. Meditating on the sun opens the knowledge of the entire universe. Elementarily he is the supreme cosmic spirit and the soul of the entire cosmos …show more content…
When the kṛttikās after taking a bath began to warm themselves before a fire, at that time this semen entered their bodies and God Agni became free of it, but the semen impregnated the kṛttikās, and hence being cursed by their seer husbands they began wandering in the skies in the form of planets, and then dropped this semen of Śiva at the Himalayan peaks, from where this effulgent semen, shining like gold, was put forth into the holy waters of River Ganges, and flowing in its waters and getting caught amidst the dense clumps of Ravenna grass along the river bank, that radiance took the form of a child with six