Theos-Talk Archives (December 1998 Message tt00256)

Dec 25th 1998

	THE TRUE SUN

That which giveth sustenance to the universe, and to ourselves,

>From which, all doth proceed,

Unto which all must return

THAT thou art.


In the golden vase of thine earthly body,

May the pure light of the Spiritual Sun shine forth,

That thou mays't know the Truth

And do thy whole duty

On thy journey back to the Sacred Seat.

		[ A rendition of the Gayatri. ]


	"Unveil" is the cry of the man who is determined to know the
truth and who perceives that something hides it from him.  It is
hidden by his own Karmic effects, which have put him now where
the brain and the desires are too strong for the Higher Self to
pierce through so long as he remains careless and ignorant.  The
cry...is directed to that on which the Universe is built and
stands-which is no other than the Self which is in every man and
which sits like a bird in the upper branches of a tree, watching
while the bird we call our "personality" eats the fruit of
experience below.

	The cry to unveil the face of the True Sun is that the Higher
Self may shine down into us and do its work of illumination.
The sun that we see is not the "true Sun."  Nor is the light of
the "intellect" the true "sun" of our moral being.

	The object of this "prayer" is to remind us, that we may carry
out our duty, after becoming acquainted again with the truth that
the One SELF resides within each of us.  This is our eternal
pilgrimage - not alone, not selfishly, but as one which the whole
human brotherhood.  For the "sacred seat" is not reserved to any
one group.  It is that place where we all meet, where we are ONE.
It is that oneness where the first three sounds of the first word
of the invocation merge into the Soundless sound.  It reminds us
of our aspiration.


[ Culled from  A COMMENTARY ON THE GAYATRI  by "An Obscure
Brahmin"  first published by Mr. Judge in PATH, for January
1893. ]