Om arunaya namaha, Salutations to the Sun who is the dawn-bringer.
glossary
arun Hin. aruna San. adj. reddish, like the sky at sunrise m. the sun; dawn; the reddish flush of dawn after the darkness of night.
aruna red SB 3.15.44
aruna — like the morning sun SB 3.25.35
aruna — ruddy SB 3.28.13
Aruna, the Charioteer of Surya
Aruna was the son of the great sage Kashyapa and Vinata, a daughter of Daksha. His mother had obtained a boon from her husband that she would have two offspring who surpassed the thousand sons (the serpents) of her sister (and co-wife) Kadru in glory. She gave birth to two eggs, which did not hatch for a long time. In her impatience, she broke open one of them and found Aruna inside it, but his legs had not developed.
After churning of the ocean, Surya and Chandra caught Rahu drinking nectar by name Amrita in disguise. Though Lord Vishnu used His Sudharshana Chakra to sever his head, the nectar had already reached his throat and severed parts Rahu and Ketu attained immortality. Now as an act of retaliation, Rahu and Ketu started devouring (hiding) Sun and Moon for some time (what are called eclipses). Lord Surya thought the devas were acting as mere spectators to these events and decided to burn three worlds. Aruna stopped this intensity and became his charioteer.
“When awareness of God dawns in all its splendour, every worldly, sensual desire is reduced to ashes in the flames of that Awareness. The individual self will turn towards the Universal Self as soon as desire comes to an end, and delights in supreme Peace, Paramashanti. The self must break off all contact with non-self so that it can earn immortality.”
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