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Vivaswat, the early morning, a name of the present Manu; Bhaskara, creator
of brightness, reflection or desire; Dinakara, creator of day and night;
Arhapati, worthy of adoration; Karma-sakshi, witness of the deeds of men;
Graha Raja, king of the planets; Gabhastimat, one who posesses a beam of
light, or one of the seven divisions of Patala, the nether world; Sahasrakiran,
having a thousand rays of light; Vijartana, a son who has usurped his
father's kingdom; Martanda, son of a dead-egg; and Surya, the Sun, or the
number twelve derived from the twelve forms of the sky. Each name
indicates a significant feature of the planet. A common feature of them is the
association of the Sun with a ray of light. But light itself refers to the
essential nature, the essence or soul of all that exists. In the absence of light,
there is death. When the radiance of the Sun, its life giving energy is
withdrawn, there is the dissolution of the universe.
One of his most interesting and mysterious names is Martanda or son of the
dead egg. In some myths we are told the genesis of this name. The Puranas
tell us that Aditi, the mother of the gods, bore eight Adityas, but she retained
only seven and discarded the eighth believing it to be dead. As our Sun was
born of this supposedly lifeless egg, he is called Martanda. The rest of the
Adityas became his attendant deities.
Aditi, the mother of the gods, who bore the various Adilyas, is a word which
essentially means "the beginning and the end." As time arose through
placing limitations on timelessiiess without any beginning or end, it is the
offspring of eternal. The Secret Doctrine teaches that there is "the universal
perpetual motion which never ceases, never slackens nor increases its speed
not even during the interludes between the pralayas, or "nights of Brahma"
but goes on like a mill set in motion, whether it has anything to grind or
not." This is the eternal and uncreated Deity. Adili corresponds to the
timeless Deity whose nature and characteristics are beyond description. But
from this transcendent state of perpetual motion cosmic evolution begins.
The early deities who were requested to assume responsibility for creating
the universe refused to do so, because it required their immersion in
materiality which meant renouncing their everlasting freedom. The inability
of the first seven sons of Aditi to create the world shows that they represent
these higher forces which held back from the process of material creation.
The eighth effort from which the Sun was born appeared at first as "a dead
egg." The word Mrityu or death refers to Yarna, the god of death, Vishnu
who preserves the universe, Maya which is creative illusion as well as
ignorance, and to Kamadeva, the god of love. These references point to the
mystic nature of the cosmic womb. Seen from the standpoint of the eternal
and uncreated deity, Aditi, this manifestation with its expression of life's