🕉 Surya (Sun) Mantra

Surya (Sun) is considered the significator of the soul, father, government/authority, honour, bones, eyesight and leadership. When Surya is weak or afflicted in the kundali, or its difficult dasha is running, tradition recommends its mantra japa, charity and the worship of its presiding deity. Below are all four kinds of Surya mantras with meaning, the japa method and remedies.

📖 Full text — with meaning

Tap «Roman (English) script» to see the original Devanagari text.

Beej and laghu mantras — the graha-shanti tradition; Vedic verse — as given in Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (ch. 84), text checked against Rigveda 1.35.2; Shukla Yajurveda 33.43; Pauranik — the Navagraha Stotra composed by Vyasa.

💡 Essence

The purpose of chanting Surya's mantra is not to «please» the planet, but to awaken its good qualities (the soul) in your own life and to gain the strength to bear its difficult results.

📿 Japa counter (mala of 108)

📅 Next auspicious days (from our panchang)

• 25 Oct (Sunday)
• 1 Nov (Sunday)
• 8 Nov (Sunday)
• 15 Nov (Sunday)
• 22 Nov (Sunday)
• 29 Nov (Sunday)

Dates are for Delhi sunrise; see today's panchang for your city.

🪔 How to chant / recite

1. Start: Take a sankalpa and begin on the first Sunday of the bright fortnight (shukla paksha), or on any Sunday.
2. Time: Morning after bath; sunrise is special for the Sun.
3. Seat & direction: On a woollen/kusha asana, facing east.
4. Mala & count: One mala (108) of the beej or laghu mantra daily; by tradition the total count for the beej mantra is 7,000 — do such a big anushthan only after checking the kundali and under an acharya's guidance.
5. Conclusion: At the end of the anushthan, the tradition is a havan of one-tenth the japa count, charity (wheat, jaggery, copper) and feeding a brahmin/someone in need.

🛕 Puja vidhi (step by step)

🧺 Items needed

• Copper pot (lota)
• Water with red sandalwood/roli, red flowers, akshata, jaggery
• Red cloth or red asana
• Ghee lamp

🪷 Procedure

1. Bathe and wear clean clothes; clean the puja place and spread a fresh cloth on the altar (chowki).
2. Do achamana (sip water three times) and purify hands and mouth; sit on an asana and calm the mind.
3. Light a lamp of ghee or sesame oil — by tradition the lamp is kept to the deity's right.
4. Take water, akshata (unbroken rice) and a flower in the right hand and make the sankalpa — your name, gotra, place, date and the purpose of the puja, spoken or in the mind; then let the water fall to the ground.
5. First remember Shri Ganesha (Om Gam Ganapataye Namah).
6. At sunrise stand facing east; fill the copper lota with water, roli/red sandalwood, red flowers and akshata.
7. Raise the lota above your head with both hands and pour a slow stream, looking at the Sun through the stream; chant «Om Ghrini Suryaya Namah».
8. After offering, turn around three times in your place and touch the fallen water to your forehead.
9. Then recite Aditya Hridaya Stotra / Surya mantra.
10. Finally perform aarti, offer pushpanjali (flowers) and do parikrama (or turn around in your place).
11. Ask forgiveness for any mistakes in the puja, distribute the prasad and take it yourself.

⚠️ Rules & precautions

• The arghya water should not fall on your feet — offer it over a plant.
• Avoiding salt on Sundays is a traditional vow.
• Do not stare at the Sun — a moment's darshan through the water stream is enough.

🎁 Items to donate (on Sunday)

• Wheat
• Jaggery
• Copper
• Red cloth
• Red sandalwood

🌿 Other remedies for Surya

• Offer arghya to the rising Sun daily with a copper lota.
• Recite the Aditya Hridaya Stotra (especially on Sundays).
• Respect and serve your father and elders.
• Avoid salt on Sundays (a traditional vow).

🌟 Benefits (as per tradition)

• A prayer for favourable results in the areas Surya signifies — the soul, father, government/authority, honour, bones, eyesight and leadership.
• Strength of mind and patience during a difficult dasha/antardasha of the planet.

These are traditional beliefs described in scriptures; results are understood to depend on faith, discipline and one's own actions.

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