The Twenty four Gurus (9)

7. SUN

The Sun absorbs the water with its rays and later sends forth the accumulated water as the rains. The yogi, too, like the Sun, absorbs the 'gunas' (matters/issues) of his senses and at the proper time leaves them. He does not get attached to them. Just as the ignorant take the 'reflected suns' in the various things like water to be the real one, so, too, do they mistake the 'atma' (which like the sun is reflected) to be the body seen in different forms.