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Surya and Cittayam Puja
Pujas for the anahata chakra (inspiring)
Surya puja: prayer of gratitude to the twelve qualities of your soul. In this puja you honor the light of both the outer sun and your inner soul in all its aspects and how they enrich your life.
Cittayam puja: prayer of gratitude for your birth and thereby experiencing Life and its essence: your soul. The soul is the source of your consciousness and consciousness shows you the way to the blessings of ananda: the nectar of your soul.
Pujas
1. Surya puja (32.54 minutes)
2. Cittayam puja (33.04 minutes)
Track 1: Surya puja
Prayer of gratitude to the twelve qualities of your soul
Opening prayer Aum shanti shanti shanti aum Aum atma amrithathvam Aum purna ahsritha Aum purusha tattvamasi Mantra Aum atma mitraya namaha Aum atma ravaye namaha Aum atma suryaya namaha Vahe atma shanti saranagati Aum atma bhanave namaha Aum atma khagaya namaha Aum atma pushne namaha Vahe atma shanti saranagati Aum atma hiranyagarbhaya namaha Aum atma maricaye namaha Aum atma adityaya namaha Vahe atma shanti saranagati Aum atma savitre namaha Aum atma arkaya namaha Aum atma bhaskaraya namaha Vahe atma shanti saranagati Aum shanti shanti shanti aum
Free translation opening prayer “Peace is the true nature of all. Oh immortal Mother of all souls. Oh Soul of all souls, you are the wholeness that sustains all. Oh my most sacred soul, you are the eternal principle of peace and as such, you live also within me.” Free translation Surya puja “Oh my shining soul, you are my friend, center and my strength (centering values). You give me sight, space and energy (opening values). You are my origin, healing and protective aura (energetic values). You give me insight, radiance and the connection with the essential light (essential values). Oh glorious soul, every time I experience you and bow before you, I enter a peaceful, enriching and joyous opennessYour peace is the true nature of all, including me.” About the Surya puja The Surya puja is about your gratitude for the light, both the light of the sun outside and the light of your inner soul. The puja reminds you of the different forms of light that want to serve you and open you, offer you clarity and freedom, and let you develop. The Surya puja is specifically about the values of light that you receive from your relationship with your soul. Through the puja you express your gratitude for Atman, the Mother Soul, of which every living being is a child through its individualized soul. In this puja you express your gratitude to the Mother Soul for all the light you have been and are receiving from her, and for the value that this has for you as a more deeply conscious human being. It is like thanking your mother for all that she means to you, or thanking nature for all that it gives you, or thanking your personal inner experience for all that you have received. You as a human being with your individual soul, the Jivatman, are expressing your gratitude to the Atman, the great mother soul that encompasses all souls. It is like the star thanking the sun for the light and all that it receives as a result. Everyone feels connected to something greater in some way, and here that all-encompassing essence is thanked from the heart in a devotional and moving way, in stillness. The Surya puja begins with a short introductory prayer that expresses the spirit and value of the remaining mantras. This is primarily about the profound, venerable value of the soul, or Atma in Sanskrit, which appears often later in this puja. The twelve aspects of the Surya mantra addressed in this puja can be divided into four parts that delve deeply into the four phases of the relationship between you and your soul. The first three aspects of the light, of Surya, are about your longing to get in touch with your soul and to be guided by your deepest longing. The next three aspects of the light, of Surya, are about "the soul's response" to the relationship you have entered into. The next three aspects of light, of Surya, are about the depth of this fully, mutually consensual, "intimate togetherness" of you with your soul. The last three aspects of light, of Surya, are about the “spiritual fulfillment” that this intimate togetherness of you with your soul brings.
Track 2: Cittayam puja
Prayer to the Enjoyable Richness of the Soul
Mantra Atman cittayam, cittayam anandam Free translation “Soulfulness, by having become a human being, leads to awareness, and it is through this awareness that I am able to experience the bliss of my soul.”
About the Cittayam puja The Cittayam puja is a prayer of gratitude for your birth, which is the most essential aspect of humanity. As a human being, you are given the opportunity to be aware of the most special part of life: the soul. You are not only a part of life, but you can be aware of it, from the surface to the most divine depths. You have always been a part of it, but on an essential level of longing, you have chosen to be a conscious part of it. It is important not to underestimate this added dimension. If you are only a part of a larger whole and are included in it, you cannot be aware of it. It is this extra space of awareness that creates duality and the ability to discriminate, that gives you the ability to be aware of whether you are part of something larger or separate from it. In a world of oneness, where everything is one, you cannot be aware of anything because there are no differences to stand out and prevent you from being aware of anything. Your birth and your inner presence, which is part of humanity, creates the possibility to consciously experience the miracle of life and to consciously be part of it. This whole world, this whole cosmos, was created to give people such as you the opportunity to consciously feel that you are alive and that this consciousness is the origin of everything. In the Cittayam puja, you invite your soul (atman) to influence your consciousness (cittayam) with its radiance, thereby giving you more space for insight. When the soul influences the consciousness, a peace is created that causes all struggle-oriented thoughts to fall away and the poles of duality to lovingly complement each other once again. The polarities present within you then come together, like your hands in the namaskar gesture of friendship, or coming together peacefully with other people in community out of love. As this is allowed to happen, you feel how life with yourself and others becomes more accessible to the bliss of soulfulness, ananda, the nectar of your soul. This puja makes you realize that you were born to be aware of the divine background of everything. When you are aware of this in yourself, in others, in everything that exists, the way opens for a peaceful and enriching togetherness. The mantra, Atman cittayam, cittayam anandam, consists of four parts and gestures. The first part of this mantra is the Sanskrit word Atman, which means “all-encompassing soul” or “soul of all.” The word Atman is often used to refer to the universal soul, to indicate the difference from Jivatman, the individual soul within each human being (see also the Jivatman puja). The first part of the mantra therefore means, “I feel my soul.” The second part of this mantra is the Sanskrit concept cittayam. Cit is a key concept in Hindu literature and means “consciousness,” and the concept citta can best be translated as “mind” or the combination of “heart and mind.” Ayamthen means “this.” Together they indicate that this is about the limited human consciousness. In this mantra, you open your consciousness, which is usually narrowed and therefore limited by goal-orientation, to allow it to be receptive to the influence of the soul. The second part of the mantra therefore means, “I allow my consciousness to be receptive to it.” The third part of this mantra is the Sanskrit concept cittayam. With this mantra, you are now allowing your fully receptive consciousness to be filled with the influence of the soul. As you move your arms through your aura, you allow this influence to work on all the chakras from your center to above your crown, and you bring it all together above your head through the harmonizing gesture of the namaskar posture. The third part of the mantra therefore means, “This creates peace to my consciousness.” The fourth part of this mantra is the Sanskrit concept anandam, which means “being connected with bliss.” Bliss is being completely influenced by the experience of happiness, so that the ego is softened and the most essential value of happiness has permeated everything. The fourth part of the mantra therefore means, “peace that enables me to experience the loving value of bliss.”