The Solar Path !

The path of Sidereal Astrology, Vedanga Jyotisha, is said to be Saura or the Solar Path. The main Deity is the Sun, but again this is not the Sun which is visible to us, but the Invisible Absolute Sun or Absolute Self.


By Whose Grace all the relative states triune are illumined
Whose splendour shines in the conscious Waking State
Whose magnificence pervades the dreaming & dreamless sleep
That might Power whose symbol is the outer Sun, I bow !


All astrolgical practices begin by invoking the Inner Sun. The Prasna Anushtana Paddhathi, a treatise on Horary Astrology, begins like this

I bow down to Him whose light shines in all the states three
Who gives all sorts of boons to the righteous
Who is the Base of all sciences and arts
Who is the true Poet, the knower of Past, Present & Future !