A Homage to Suryanarayana: The First Lessons Given to Mankind

The tremendous cruciality of the Sun for life on Earth is not appreciated by most of us. It is not difficult to find out about the importance of the Sun in a multitude of aspects of life and evolution, but it is nearly impossible to realize it without serious fixation, repeated and deep contemplation, and finally placid consciousness. This unflinching consciousness represents the state of realization or enlightenment called Moksha, which frees one from all shackles and invokes the ever-residing divine within the self, ending the cycles of recurring births and deaths.

Hence, this poem is written as a homage to the Sun in order to evoke serious focus in people through deep and meaningful composition, which can catapult many to the further stage of repeated deep contemplation where they revisit the material multiple times and think about each and every verse deeply to make sense of the revealed and the hidden, and through it one can achieve absolute consciousness or the state of enlightenment.

The name of this poem comes from an Indian name for the Sun, Surya, and an Indian name for the God, Narayana. This is a homage to Him, particularly the way He has manifested part of His divine powers in the Sun and its existence.