The proto Indo-Iranian religion started off as Sun Worship.
- Max Mueller
The tradition of Shukla Yajur Veda worships Savitr as Brahman and the Rishi of this tradition is the great sage Yajnavalkya who extolled the Sun God and received such fresh portions of the Vedas which was not known to anyone before. The famous Ishavasya Upanishad is from this tradition which contains with in itself the ultimate truth of the universe and a pathway to know Brahman.
The Sun God will be very pleased if one gives up
Sankalpa and does unselfish holistic worship to him. The greatest mystery which is so astonishing is the truth that all other gods exists in his womb and form his body, this is the reason why he is called as
Hiranyagarbha, the golden egg, (garbha means womb or egg). Each individual light ray emanating from his body is an individual god, this is baffling and one can experience it by sincere devotion and worship to him. Scientists and atheists are ignorant of this and they are taking the world in the wrong direction. For those who have not gone through upanayana rituals like me i.e. not Brahmins by birth they can do Surya Namaskara or Sun Salutations along with silent utterance of mantras in the mind you will soon see the benefits yourself.
The Lord Savitr is indeed the Supreme Lord of the universe and the more we dig deeper in history the more we acknowledge that everything is pointing to this God. I should say even science is pointing to this God but many people don't see it because of bad scholarship and bad education system. Sun God is not a jealous god he is the most ancient of all gods. He is Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva as it is stated in the Adithya Hrudyam. He is the Prajapathi of the Brahmanas and the Brahman of the Upanishads. He embraces Jesus and Buddha too and if one studies Gnostic Christianity and Vajrayana Buddhism you will wonder whether they were also worshiping the same Father. We ourselves don't know what secrets is hidden in him and what secrets he will reveal to all serious followers of Sauram.
He is the god whom Julian the Emperor extols in his Hymn to King Helios. Helios-Aion-Mithras, the god mentioned in Mithras Lithurgy is the same Sun god, Savitr. He is Sol Invictus, the Invincible, the unconquered sun. He is the Holy Father of the Gnostics and the one who sent the Saviour to earth who came down in the form of a dove on to Jesus Christ's body at the time of his Baptism. Jesus Christ was sent by the Demiurge, Jehovah but the Saviour was sent by the Holy Father, Savitr from the above Pleroma. Its so disappointing that this pagan religion is not known to many people and academic scholars don't interpret the Vedas in this light.
Its true that as the Gnostic Christians of the 2nd century say that before Jesus Christ came down to earth all the people of the world were worshiping the creator who is a lesser god and not the true god of the cosmos. The Saviour saved the world from the evil Archons by giving us the gnosis of the Father of Truth. The Archons of the world whose leader is the Devil, the fallen angel, Lucifer who is actually also a son of the Demiurge (Jehovah), got angry, jealous and murdered Jesus Christ. But there was one tribe who were worshiping the Father of Truth even before since the time Jesus Christ came down to earth and that tribe was none other than the Indo-Persian Aryans who heavily influenced Neoplatonists like Proclus, Iamblichus, Julian, Ammonius Saccus etc through the Chaldean Oracles.
Below is a list of Vedic verses extolling the God Savitr. All other Vedic gods like Pushan, Surya, Bhaga, Mitra, Agni, Soma, Indra, Varuna, Aruna, Bhaga, Usha, Gayatri, Ashvins emanate from this one God. I have included verses only from the Rig Veda here but this God is extolled and revered by the Aryans in all of the Vedas from Sama Veda to Atharvana Veda and from Black Yajurveda to White Yajurveda.
1 AGNI I first invoke for our
prosperity; I call on Mitra, Varuṇa, to aid us here.
I call on
Night who gives rest to all moving life; I call on Savitar the God to
lend us help.
2 Throughout the dusky firmament advancing, laying
to rest the immortal and the mortal,
Borne in his golden chariot
he cometh, Savitar, God who looks on every creature.
3 The God
moves by the upward path, the downward; with two bright Bays,
adorable, he journeys.
Savitar comes, the God from the far
distance, and chases from us all distress and sorrow.
4 His
chariot decked with pearl, of various colours, lofty, with golden
pole, the God hath mounted,
The many-rayed One, Savitar the holy,
bound, bearing power and might, for darksome regions.
5 Drawing
the gold-yoked car his Bays, white-footed, have manifested light to
all the peoples.
Held in the lap of Savitar, divine One, all men,
all beings have their place for ever.
6 Three heavens there are;
two Savitar's, adjacent: in Yama's world is one, the home of
heroes,
As on a linch-pin, firm, rest things immortal: he who hath
known it let him here declare it.
7 He, strong of wing, hath
lightened up the regions, deep-quivering Asura, the gentle
Leader.
Where now is Sūrya, where is one to tell us to what
celestial sphere his ray hath wandered?
8 The earth's eight points
his brightness hath illumined, three desert regions and the Seven
Rivers.
God Savitar the gold-eyed hath come hither, giving choice
treasures unto him who worships.
9 The golden-handed Savitar,
far-seeing, goes on his way between the earth and heaven,
Drives
away sickness, bids the Sun approach us, and spreads the bright sky
through the darksome region.
10 May he, gold-handed Asura, kind
Leader, come hither to us with his help and favour.
Driving off
Rākṣasas and Yātudhānas, the God is present, praised in hymns at
evening.
11 O Savitar, thine ancient dustless pathways are well
established in the air's mid-region:
O God, come by those paths so
fair to travel, preserve thou us from harm this day, and bless us.
- Rig Veda Book 1, HYMN XXXV. Savitar.
1. UPRISEN is Savitar, this God, to quicken, Priest who neglects not this most constant duty.
To the Gods, verily, he gives rich treasure, and blesses him who calls them to the banquet.
2 Having gone up on high, the God broad-handed spreads his arms widely forth that all may mark him.
Even the waters bend them to his service: even this wind rests in the circling region.
3 Though borne by swift steeds he will yet unyoke them: e’en the fleet chariot hath he stayed from going.
He hath checked e’en their haste who glide like serpents. Night closely followed Savitar's dominion.
4 What was spread out she weaves afresh, re-weaving: the skilful leaves his labour half-completed.
He hath arisen from rest, and parted seasons: Savitar hath approached, God, holy-minded.
5 Through various dwellings, through entire existence, spreads, manifest, the household light of Agni.
The Mother gives her Son the goodliest portion, and Savitar hath sped to meet his summons.
6 He comes again, unfolded, fain for conquest: at home was he, the love of all things moving.
Each man hath come leaving his evil doings, after the Godlike Savitar's commandment.
7 The wild beasts spread through desert places seeking their watery share which thou hast set in waters.
The woods are given to the birds. These statutes of the God Savitar none disobeyeth.
8 With utmost speed, in restless haste at sunset Varuṇa seeks his watery habitation.
Then seeks each bird his nest, each beast his lodging. In due place Savitar hath set each creature.
9 Him whose high law not Varuṇa nor Indra, not Mitra, Aryaman, nor Rudra breaketh,
Nor evil-hearted fiends, here for my welfare him I invoke, God Savitar, with worship.
10 May they who strengthen bliss, and thought and wisdom, and the Dames’ Lord and Narāśaṁsa aid us.
That good may come to us and wealth be gathered, may we be Savitar the God's beloved.
11 So come to us our hearts' desire, the bounty bestowed by thee, from heaven and earth and waters,
That it be well with friends and those who praise thee, and, Savitar, with the loud-lauding singer.
- Rig Veda Book2, HYMN XXXVIII. Savitar.
1. Now must we praise and honour Savitar the God: at this time of
the day the men must call to him,
Him who distributes wealth to
Manu's progeny, that he may grant us here riches most excellent.
2
For thou at first producest for the holy Gods the noblest of all
portions, immortality:
Thereafter as a gift to men, O Savitar,
thou openest existence, life succeeding life.
3 If we, men as we
are, have sinned against the Gods through want of thought, in
weakness, or through insolence,
Absolve us from the guilt and make
us free from sin, O Savitar, alike among both Gods and men.
4 None
may impede that power of Savitar the God whereby he will maintain the
universal world.
What the fair-fingered God brings forth on
earth's expanse or in the height of heaven, that work of his stands
sure.
5 To lofty hills thou sendest those whom Indra leads, and
givest fixed abodes with houses unto these.
However they may fly
and draw themselves apart, still, Savitar, they stand obeying thy
behest.
6 May the libations poured to thee thrice daily, day after
day, O Savitar, bring us blessing.
May Indra, Heaven, Earth,
Sindhu with the Waters, Aditi with Ādityas, give us shelter.
- Rig Veda Book 4, HYMN LIV. Savitar.
1. THE priests of him the lofty Priest well-skilled in hymns
harness their spirit, yea, harness their holy thoughts.
He only
knowing works assigns their priestly tasks. Yea, lofty is the praise
of Savitar the God.
2 The Sapient One arrays himself in every
form: for quadruped and biped he hath brought forth good.
Excellent
Savitar hath looked on heaven's high vault, and shineth after the
outgoing of the Dawn.
3 Even he, the God whose going-forth and
majesty the other Deities have followed with their might,
He who
hath measured the terrestrial regions out by his great power, he is
the Courser Savitar.
4 To the three spheres of light thou goest,
Savitar, and with the rays of Sidrya thou combinest thee.
Around,
on both sides thou encompassest the night: yea, thou, O God, art
Mitra through thy righteous laws.
5 Over all generation thou art
Lord alone: Pūṣan art thou, O God, in all thy goings-forth.
Yea,
thou hast domination over all this world. Śyāvāśva hath brought
praise to thee, O Savitar,
- Rig Veda Book 5, HYMN LXXXI. Savitar.
1. WE crave of Savitar the God this treasure much to be
enjoyed.
The best, all-yielding, conquering gift of Bhaga we would
gladly win.
2 Savitar's own supremacy, most glorious and beloved
of all,
No one diminisheth in aught.
3 For Savitar who is Bhaga
shall send riches to his worshipper.
That wondrous portion we
implore.
4 Send us this day, God Savitar, prosperity with
progeny.
Drive thou the evil dream away.
5 Savitar, God, send
far away all sorrows and calamities,
And send us only what is
good.
6 Sinless in sight of Aditi through the God Savitar's
influence,
May we obtain all lovely things.
7 We with our hymns
this day elect the general God, Lord of the good,
Savitar whose
decrees are true.
8 He who for ever vigilant precedes these Twain,
the Day and Night,
Is Savitar the thoughtful God.
9 He who
gives glory unto all these living creatures with the song,
And
brings them forth, is Savitar.
- Rig Veda Book 5, HYMN LXXXII. Savitar.
1. FULL of effectual wisdom Savitar the God hath stretched out
golden arms that he may bring forth life.
Young and most skilful,
while he holds the region up, the Warrior sprinkles fatness over both
his hands.
2 May we enjoy the noblest vivifying force of Savitar
the God, that he may give us wealth:
For thou art mighty to
produce and lull to rest the world of life that moves on two feet and
on four.
3 Protect our habitation, Savitar, this day, with
guardian aids around, auspicious, firm and true.
God of the golden
tongue, keep us for newest bliss: let not the evil-wisher have us in
his power.
4 This Savitar the God, the golden-handed, Friend of
the home, hath risen to meet the twilight.
With cheeks of brass,
with pleasant tongue, the Holy, he sends the worshipper rich gifts in
plenty.
5 Like a Director, Savitar hath extended his golden arms,
exceeding fair to look on.
He hath gone up the heights of earth
and heaven, and made each monster fall and cease from troubling.
6
Fair wealth, O Savitar, to-day, to-morrow, fair wealth produce for us
each day that passes.
May we through this our song be happy
gainers, God, of a fair and spacious habitation.
- Rig Veda Book 6, HYMN LXXI. Savitar.
1. SAVITAR, golden-haired, hath lifted eastward, bright With the
sunbeams, his eternal lustre;
He in whose energy wise Pūṣan
marches, surveying all existence like a herdsman.
2 Beholding men
he sits amid the heaven filling the two world-halves and air's wide
region.
He looks upon the rich far-spreading pastures between the
eastern and the western limit.
3 He, root of wealth, the
gatherer-up of treasures, looks with his might on every form and
figure.
Savitar, like a Godẉhose Law is constant, stands in the
battle for the spoil like Indra.
4 Waters from sacrifice came to
the Gandharva Visvavasu, O Soma, when they saw him.
Indra,
approaching quickly, marked their going, and looked around upon the
Sun's enclosures.
5 This song Visvavasu shall sing us, meter of
air's mid-realm celestial Gandharva,
That we may know aright both
truth and falsehood: may he inspire our thoughts and help our
praises.
6 In the floods' track he found the bootyseeker: the
rocky cow-pen's doors he threw wide open.
These, the Gandharva
told him, Rowed with Amṛta. Indra knew well the puissancc of the
dragons.
- Rig Veda Book 10, HYMN CXXXIX. Savitar.
1. SAVITAR fixed the earth with bands to bind it, and made heaven
stedfast where no prop supported.
Savitar milked, as ’twere a
restless courser, air, sea bound fast to what no foot had trodden.
2
Well knoweth Savitar, O Child of Waters, where ocean, firmly fixt,
o’erflowed its limit.
Thence sprang the world, from that uprose
the region: thence heaven spread out and the wide earth expanded.
3
Then, with a full crowd of Immortal Beings, this other realm came
later, high and holy.
First, verily, Savitar's strong-pinioned
Eagle was born: and he obeys his law for ever.
4 As warriors to
their steeds, kine to their village, as fond milk giving cows
approach their youngling,
As man to wife, let Savitar come
downward to us, heaven's bearer, Lord of every blessing.
5 Like
the Aṅgirasa Hiranvastupa, I call thee, Savitar, to this
achievement:
So worshipping and lauding thee for favour I watch
for thee as for the stalk of Soma.
- Rig Veda Book 10, HYMN CXLIX. Savitar.
1. MAY the God Savitar, rich in goodly treasures, filling the
region, borne by steeds, come hither,
In his hand holding much
that makes men happy, lulling to slumber and arousing creatures.
2
Golden, sublime, and easy in their motion, his arms extend unto the
bounds of heaven.
Now shall that mightiness of his he lauded: even
Sūrya yields to him in active vigour.
3 May this God Savitar, the
Strong and Mighty, the Lord of precious wealth, vouchsafe us
treasures.
May he, advancing his far-spreading lustre, bestow on
us the food that feedeth mortals.
4 These songs praise Savitar
whose tongue is pleasant, praise him whose arms are full, whose hands
are lovely.
High vital strength, and manifold, may he grant us.
Preserve us evermore, ye Gods, with blessings.
- Rig Veda Book 7, HYMN XLV. Savitar.
1 HIS bright rays bear him up aloft,
the God who knoweth all that lives,
Sūrya, that all may look on
him.
2 The constellations pass away, like thieves, together with
their beams,
Before the all-beholding Sun.
3 His herald rays
are seen afar refulgent o’er the world of men,
Like flames of
fire that burn and blaze.
4 Swift and all beautiful art thou, O
Sūrya, maker of the light,
Illuming all the radiant realm.
5
Thou goest to the hosts of Gods, thou comest hither to
mankind,
Hither all light to be beheld.
6 With that same eye of
thine wherewith thou lookest brilliant Varuṇa,
Upon the busy
race of men,
7 Traversing sky and wide mid-air, thou metest with
thy beams our days,
Sun, seeing all things that have birth.
8
Seven Bay Steeds harnessed to thy car bear thee, O thou farseeing
One,
God, Sūrya, with the radiant hair.
9 Sūrya hath yoked
the pure bright Seven, the daughters of the car; with these,
His
own dear team, he goeth forth.
10 Looking upon the loftier light
above the darkness we have come
To Sūrya, God among the Gods, the
light that is most excellent.
11 Rising this day, O rich in
friends, ascending to the loftier heaven,
Sūrya remove my heart's
disease, take from me this my yellow hue.
12 To parrots and to
starlings let us give away my yellowness,
Or this my yellowness
let us transfer to Haritāla trees.
13 With all his conquering
vigour this Āditya hath gone up on high,
Giving my foe into mine
hand: let me not be my foeman's prey.
Rig Veda Book 1, HYMN L. Sūrya.
1. THE brilliant presence of the Gods hath risen, the eye of
Mitra, Varuṇa and Agni.
The soul of all that moveth not or
moveth, the Sun hath filled the air and earth and heaven.
2 Like
as a young man followeth a maiden, so doth the Sun the Dawn,
refulgent Goddess:
Where pious men extend their generations,
before the Auspicious One for happy fortune.
3 Auspicious are the
Sun's Bay-coloured Horses, bright, changing hues, meet for our shouts
of triumph.
Bearing our prayers, the sky's ridge have they
mounted, and in a moment speed round earth and heaven.
4 This is
the Godhead, this might of Sūrya: he hath withdrawn what spread o’er
work unfinished.
When he hath loosed his Horses from their
station, straight over all Night spreadeth out her garment.
5 In
the sky's lap the Sun this form assumeth that Varuṇa and Mitra may
behold it.
His Bay Steeds well maintain his power eternal, at one
time bright and darksome at another.
6 This day, O Gods, while
Sūrya is ascending, deliver us from trouble and dishonour.
This
prayer of ours may Varuṇa grant, and Mitra, and Aditi and Sindhu,
Earth and Heaven.
- Rig Veda Book 1, HYMN CXV. Sūrya.
1. STRONG Pūṣan's majesty is lauded evermore, the glory of his
lordly might is never faint, his song of praise is never
faint.
Seeking felicity I laud him nigh to help, the source, of
bliss,
Who, Vigorous one, hath drawn to him the hearts of all,
drawn them, the Vigorous One, the God.
2 Thee, then, O Pūṣan,
like a swift one on his way, I urge with lauds that thou mayst make
the foemen flee, drive, camel-like, our foes afar.
As I, a man,
call thee, a God, giver of bliss, to be my Friend,
So make our
loudly-chanted praises glorious, in battles make them glorious.
3
Thou, Pūṣan, in whose friendship they who sing forth praise enjoy
advantage, even in wisdom, through thy grace, in wisdom even they are
advanced.
So, after this most recent course, we come to thee with
prayers for wealth.
Not stirred to anger, O Wide-Ruler, come to
us, come thou to us in every fight.
4 Not stirred to anger, come,
Free-giver, nigh to us, to take this gift of ours, thou who hast
goats for steeds, Goat-borne! their gift who long for fame.
So,
Wonder-Worker! may we turn thee hither with effectual lauds.
I
slight thee not, O Pūṣan, thou Resplendent One: thy friendship may
not be despised.
- Rig Veda Book 1, HYMN CXXXVIII. Pūṣan.
