Vedanta Society of New York---Hymns on Sun (Surya) from the Rig-Veda">

--The Message of Upanishads, by Swami Ranganathananda, p. 156

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Surya, may we live long and look upon thee still, O Far-
seeing One, bringing the glorious light,
The radiant God, the spring of joy to every eye, as thou art
mounting up o'er the high shining flood.

Thou by whose lustre all the world of life comes forth, and by
thy beams again returns unto its rest,
O Surya with the golden hair, ascend for us day after day, still
bringing purer innocence.

Bless us with shine, bless us with perfect daylight, bless us with
cold, with fervent heat and lustre.
Bestow on us, O Surya, varied riches, to bless us in our home
and when we travel.
-- Rig-Veda, X--XXXVII--8, 9, 10

Quoted from:
Hymns of the Rig-Veda, Vol. I
Translated by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Pvt. Ltd.
P.O. Box 5715, Delhi -- 110055, India

"Om, this world, the higher world, and the highest world!
That Sun, the adorable One,
On the glory of the luminous One, we meditate;
May He endow us with pure intelligence!"
-- "Gayatri" from The Rig-Veda, III-LXII-10,

"O Nourisher, O lonely Courser
         of the heavens, O Regulator,
O Sun, thou offspring of Prajapati,
        remove Thy rays, gather up Thy effulgence,
so that I may see that which is
        Thy most auspicious effulgence.
The person that is in Thee, That am I."
--Isha Upanishad, 16

Quoted from:
The Message of Upanishads, p. 155-157,
by Swami Ranganathananda
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Bombay -- 400 007, India

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