Seekers of Truth, aspirants on the path of Yoga, devotees of God, lovers of mankind, all these have to pay tribute to the supreme father of energy, vital, not dead, which is Surya. If you have any visible God, it is the Sun before you. You cannot see God in His pristine excellence, but you can see God through the operation of his powers in nature. In the Purusha Sukta, the Sun is again compared to the eyes of the Virat Purusha, the cosmic person. These are only true comparisons and symbols which give us an idea as to the magnitude and the importance of the Sun in the life of ours.
People pray for their death during the six months' period of the northern movement of the Sun.
In the Mahabharata we are told that Bhishma waited for his departure until the Sun moved to the north. So there is not merely an astronomical or physical significance to our lives in the movement of the Sun towards the north, but there is also a biological, vital and psychological as well as spiritual meaning in this northern sojourn of the Sun. Devotees and seekers of Yoga have, therefore, to bring to their minds this internal world, and its significance which is beyond and farther than the physical world. The inner world is deeper than the outer. In some of the scriptures we are told that there are 12 Suns.