Prayer of the Day

Prayer from Isha Upanishad

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हिरण्मयॆन पात्रॆन सत्यस्यापिहितं मुखम् ।
तत् त्वं पूषन्नपावृणु सत्यधर्माय दृष्टयॆ ॥ १५ ॥

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Hymn as Romanized text

 
Om

hiraNmayEna pAtrEna satyasyApihitaM mukham |
tat tvaM pUShannapAvRuNu satyadharmAya dRuShTayE || 15 ||

(hiraNmayEna pAtrEna satyasya apihitaM mukham |
tat tvaM pUShan apAvRuNu satya dharmAya dRuShTayE || )

Om

Meaning of the Prayer Hymn:

 With the golden lid the face of the Truth is covered.
Oh sun, you remove that! Let (me) see with true-principle!

 Notes: 

1. hiraNmaya - golden; pAtra - plate; apihita - concealed;
pUShan - sun; apAvRunu - open.
2. We see the sun as a glowing golden disc. 
But what is beneath the gross golden sun.
It is the Supreme Shiva Who is the energy behind the sun,
which provides energy to this whole world.

God has sun as one Its eight forms (ashta murti).
The Gayatri mantra addresses the sun in the 
grosser form and the Supreme Shiva as the subtle
essence in it.
3. c.f. a. saura maNDa madhyastam sAmbaM samsArabhEShajam
nIlagrIvam virUpAkSham namAmi shivamavyayam
b. அருக்கன் பாதம் வணங்குவர் அந்தியில் 
அருக்கனாவான் அரனுரு அல்லனோ 
c. பரிதி வாழ் ஒளியாய் - திருவாசகம்