sūrya sūktam

Salutation to the all-seeing eye of Mitra and Varuṇa; worship that great deity — the Truth. Praise Sūrya, the far-seer, born of the gods, the bright banner, the son of heaven. (1)

May that Truth protect me on all sides, wherever heaven and earth are spread wide, wherever the days unfold. Everything that moves enters into something else; the waters flow everywhere, and everywhere Sūrya rises. (2)

No godless person abides near you, O Sun, as you drive across the sky with your fleet-winged horses. One realm follows after another; you travel onward, O Sūrya, with the light that shines through the waters. (3)

With that light, O Sūrya, by which you dispel the darkness and raise up the entire world with your radiance — with that very light, drive away from us all affliction, all disease, all evil dreams. (4)

Appointed guardian of the universe, you uphold the sacred law without giving offence as you rise of your own will. Whatever we implore of you today, O Sūrya — may the gods approve that intention of ours. (5)

May heaven and earth hear that prayer of ours; may the waters, may Indra, may the Maruts hear our call. May we not be deprived of the sight of Sūrya; may we, living long, reach a joyful old age. (6)

Ever joyful, of clear sight, blessed with offspring, free from disease and sin — may we see you, O Sūrya, O great Mitra, as you rise each day; may we live long. (7)

Bearing great light, all-discerning, radiant, a boon for every eye to behold — ascending the vast expanse of heaven, may we, the living, behold you, O Sūrya. (8)

All beings advance and withdraw with the night at your signal, O golden-haired Sūrya. Being yourself without sin, grant us day by day ever greater well-being. (9)

Be gracious to us with your sight; gracious with your day; gracious with your splendour; gracious with your warmth. As you have blessed the path and the household — so, O Sūrya, bestow upon us manifold wealth. (10)

O gods, bestow shelter on both our forms of birth — upon the two-footed and the four-footed. May they eat and drink and be nourished by strength; lay upon us that blessed freedom from harm. (11)

Whatever offence we may have committed, O gods, through word of tongue or through an impulse of the mind — whatever evil-doer harms us — lay that sin upon him, O Vasus. (12)