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movement could not be considered to be dead. Since the wheel of creation
can rotate only when both life and death equally participate in the process,
the Universal Mother Aditi approached Martanda, the Sun, to undertake the
function of cosmic ideation and in deference to the will of his mother he
created day and night as symbols of life and death. It is believed that on
dissolution, when the role of the visible Sun is over, all the immortal suns
will once again shine in their radiance.
This allegory emphasizes the importance of death as an integral part of
creation. The egg is a symbol of potential life. The Sun as the creator of life
and death is necessarily the beginning and the end, the alpha and the omega.
That the Sun came out of the egg also shows that it contains within itself all
the potentials of growth and development. The world that we perceive
around us is merely an externalization of the Sun's inner powers. The
manifestation of the universe is like the swelling of the eternal womb,
expanding from within to without, like the bud of the lotus which contains
within itself the full potential of all the creative force from which it has
arisen. The primary function of the Sun is to externalize what is
contained in it.
The geometrical symbol of the Sun as the circle with a central point shows
this idea of extcrnalizalion with the central point swelling and expanding
outward as the periphery of the circle. The central point gradually expands in
the evolutionary process until the limit imposed by the circumference is
reached which becomes the death of the evolving spirit. In this sense the
central point represents origin and birth and the circumference is the end or
death. The area circumscribed demarcates the realm of manifestation. Once
the restrictive limit imposed by the circumference is reached the life-wave
recedes, finally merging back into the central point. It indicates the rhythmic
circularity of the evolving spirit. The Sun is therefore essentially one its own
eternal nature, Sadaikarupa, the changeless and immutable Self, while in
manifestation it is named as Ekaneka-rupa, the One that becomes many. The
Sun is eternal as well as transient, both unity and multiplicity. He is the
cause of the creation but also part of it and one with it.
In the process of his descent to the lower planes of manifestation the Sun is
given different names which indicate the level of his expression.
These are:
1. THE MAHAPURUSHA OR PARAMATMAN The
Supreme Spirit.
2. ATMANORPURVAJA The
living spirit of nature