Hitler's rising sun logo with swatstika, another sun symbol:
Our world has been greatly infiltrated with sun symbols and sun worship, from the corporate logos you see everyday to religions and cultures.
According to Vedic scripture, sun worship is used for temporary results by unintelligent people for gaining power, as a corrupted replacement to worshipping the Supreme Lord. The Sun is a servant of God and the eyes of God and is the king of all the planets to be honored as an essential aspect of life.
VEDIC VIEW OF DEMIGOD (SUN) WORSHIP:
The Vedic scriptures say that the sun god is a demigod, or inferior to God, a servant of God, not the Supreme God. Demigod worship is said to be for the unintelligent, lustful, and ignorant, and brings temporary results unlike worshipping the Supreme Lord who bestows eternal results.
Here is what Vedic scriptures say about worshipping demigods (sun, earth, moon, every planet, wind, fire, etc.):
Sri Isopanisad 12: Those who are engaged in the worship of demigods enter into the darkest region of ignorance, and still more so do the worshipers of the impersonal Absolute.
BG 7.20: Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures.
BG 7.23: Men of small intelligence worship the demigods, and their fruits are limited and temporary. Those who worship the demigods go to the planets of the demigods, but My devotees ultimately reach My supreme planet.
SB 12.3.48: By one's engaging in the processes of demigod worship, austerities, breath control, compassion, bathing in holy places, strict vows, charity and chanting of various mantras, one's mind cannot attain the same absolute purification as that achieved when the unlimited Personality of Godhead appears within one's heart.
SB 4.29.45: Despite the cultivation of Vedic knowledge, which is unlimited, and the worship of different demigods by the symptoms of Vedic mantras, demigod worship does not help one to understand the supreme powerful Personality of Godhead.
There is also a story in the Samba Purana about a boy who was cursed with leprosy and was advised to worship the sun god for healing. Another story tells about sun worship healing blindness. So, sun worship was prescribed for sick and cursed people.
Another story in the Mahabharata tells about the son of the sun god, Karna, who fought on the side of the demons in the great Battle of Kuruksheta, along with the kings of Egypt.
Vedic scripture describes the lower planets and realms that have no sun or light, so it makes perfect sense for demoniac beings from lower places to worship the sun.
According to the Vedas, demoniac kings began civilizations throughout the world with corrupted Vedic culture. Egypt is one of the oldest sun worshipping civilizations, which has spread everywhere through symbols and logos in paganism and freemasonry. The major difference is that the Egyptians and other sun worshipping civilizations worship the sun as God, and Vedic teachings honor the sun as a servant and creation of God.
VEDIC SUN SYMBOLS:
The Surya Yantra:
This is the Surya Yantra (the geometric diagram symbol for the sun god), which I read can be used for 'gaining favours from government, gaining personal powers and meeting with important people'. There are so many different, intricate yantras in Vedic traditions, it's no coincidence that the sun yantra is a six pointed star! Hitler was apparently really into sun symbols, giving the Jews the Star of David and the Nazis the Swastika. (The Menorah was the original symbol for Judaism and emblem for Israel, the star of David came after the Babylon infilitration.)
The swastika existed as a symbol of the sun and good fortune thousands of years before the Nazis existed.
The word “swastika” comes from the Sanskrit word Svastika. The true meaning is given as
Su - means good,
asti - means “to be”,
ik – means “what is in existence, and will continue to exist “
a – denotes feminine gender
So, Swastika simply means 'let good-prevail' and not to be destroyed and remains in a good condition. Its deeper meaning is permanent victory. In the context of the cultural origins of the swastika, this means the victory of dharma - the fundamental spiritual nature of humanity. The word Swastika also denotes blessings for everyone.
The traditional Swastika is with straight standing character, slightly angled individual arms and four dots inside the four squarish designs. It originally represented the revolving sun, fire, or life. The swastika is used in both direction, but in Indian culture, clockwise swastika symbolizes fortune, good health, life and progress whereas anti clockwise swastika is treated as misfortune and bad-luck. The major difference between the ancient Swastika and the Nazi Swastika is that the Nazi swastika is at a slant (twisted by 45 degree angle), while the ancient swastika is rested flat.
The four limbs of the swastika denote:
1. Four Vedas – Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda and Atharva Veda - Symbolizing auspiciousness
2. Four stages of life – Brahmacharya(Student), Grihasta (Householder), Vanaprastha (Retired person) and Sanyasa (Ascetic) - signifying good fortune for each stage
3. Four directions – North, South, East and West - symbolizing the Divine omnipresence
4. Four seasons - Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter - symbolizing the cyclic nature of time
5. Four Yugas (eras/ages) of the world-cycle - Satya Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dvapara Yuga and Kali Yuga - symbolizing the natural evolution of the universe
6. Four Varnas (social classes) – Brahmans (Priests, Teachers, and Intellectuals), Kshatriyas (Warriors, Police, and Administrators), Vaishyas (Farmers, Merchants, and Business People) and Shudras (Artisans and Workers) – symbolizing the progress and synergy among social classes
7. Four paths of Yoga (union with God) – Jnana Yoga (intellectual), Bhakti Yoga (devotional service), Karma Yoga (selfless action/works) and Raja Yoga (meditation)- - symbolizing union with God
8.Four Virtues Of Dharma (Righteousness) - Truthfulness, cleanliness (purity), mercy, and austerity (self-control)
VEDIC DESCRIPTION OF THE SUN:
Surya, the Sun God:
The sun is described in the Vedas as the eyes of the universal form of God, and the moon is His mind's eye. The sun worshippers that want to be as powerful as God use this all seeing eye symbolism everywhere. Just as Hitler took the good symbol of the swastika and used it as a symbol for racism, horror, and hatred, other sun worshippers have also corrupted these concepts of the sun as the eyes of God and a servant of God.
Here are Vedic descriptions of the sun as God's eyes:
SB 5.21.13: The chariot of the sun-god has only one wheel, which is known as Saḿvatsara. The twelve months are calculated to be its twelve spokes, the six seasons are the sections of its rim, and the three cātur-māsya periods are its three-sectioned hub.
SB 3.6.15: Thereafter, the two eyes of the gigantic form of the Lord were separately manifested. The sun, the director of light, entered them with the partial representation of eyesight, and thus the living entities can have vision of forms.
BS 5.52: The sun who is the king of all the planets, full of infinite effulgence, the image of the good soul, is as the eye of this world. I adore the primeval Lord Govinda in pursuance of whose order the sun performs his journey mounting the wheel of time.
BG 11.19: You are without origin, middle or end. Your glory is unlimited. You have numberless arms, and the sun and moon are Your eyes. I see You with blazing fire coming forth from Your mouth, burning this entire universe by Your own radiance.
The important role of the sun god:
BG 4:1: The Blessed Lord said: I instructed this imperishable science of yoga to the sun-god, Vivasvan, and Vivasvan instructed it to Manu, the father of mankind, and Manu in turn instructed it to Iksvaku.
SB 5.20.45: O King, the sun-god and the sun planet divide all the directions of the universe. It is only because of the presence of the sun that we can understand what the sky, the higher planets, this world and the lower planets are. It is also only because of the sun that we can understand which places are for material enjoyment, which are for liberation, which are hellish and subterranean.
SB 5.20.46: All living entities, including demigods, human beings, animals, birds, insects, reptiles, creepers and trees, depend upon the heat and light given by the sun-god from the sun planet. Furthermore, it is because of the sun's presence that all living entities can see, and therefore he is called drig-isvara, the Personality of Godhead presiding over sight.
