There are many children of the sun – in fact, in excess of 8,000,000 …
What makes children feel like brothers and sisters inside a family is having the same set of parents. All can relate to having a common mother and father – knowing for certain they are the offspring of the same two beings who provide all that is needed for them to live and grow.
In the same way we humans are all children of our Planet Earth. A Being who welcomes us and provides for us. When we become aware of this fact, it naturally develops in us a deeper sense of being part of a single human family. We are truly one humanity.
Even the Earth as a whole has its ‘fathers and mothers’ who work with her and orient us towards achieving the larger evolutionary goals. These ‘parents’ are our Guides and Masters – the Wise ones, the subjects of myths and legends throughout time and present in many cultures. When we begin recognizing them as present within us and perceive them as real beings to whom we can relate, and when we realize that in many of our fellow humans they are also looked upon as a source of teaching and inspiration, then an experience of brotherhood is born in our heart. This sense of brotherhood feels even more authentic and deeper than that lived with our blood brothers and sisters.
In short, every time more people recognise themselves as having a common point of origin and sharing a single source of life and growth, the sense of brotherhood becomes stronger and more acute. It is a real ‘brotherhood’ – a scalar continuum that extends towards infinity.
So what about the Sun? It is so alive and present for us every day and yet we don’t always notice that it is there; we become aware of it above all in some cloudy days, when we leave the house with an umbrella.. However, the Sun is always here to take care of us and to support us in living. It warms us and feeds us and is, most probably, the most stable and certain presence throughout our entire life.
Since it shines right above us in the heavens, we get used to considering it as ‘ours,’ somewhat like the children of the legend told in a book for children, who sang at the top of their voices, “the sun is ours!” *
Just a few days ago, I was stimulated to reflect on the Sun thanks to the approach of the next conference. It suddenly came to my mind as an obvious truth, that the Sun is not really ours but that we share it with our many brothers and sisters who do not live on our particular planet! I have viewed thousands of times the well-designed scheme of the Solar System with its planets and satellites with their respective orbits and all in a constant rotary movement around the Sun. This is why the mental concept was so clear to me.
However, this time the thought came from another part of my being, one not based on knowledge, but on the feeling that a myriad other beings, in addition to us, look to the Sun as a source of Life. The Sun is a parent for them too – a parent who provides the same life and love that we receive. I view all these beings as brothers and sisters simply because we are children of a single parent. Although our bodies and lifestyles are very different, the Sun is our shared parent in this Solar System.
In my awareness, the notion of Solar Brothers, Solar Family, Solar Community, Solar cooperation and Solar Alliance began to form as I felt ‘expanded’ and able to contain all of this as a wholeness.
The questions came: “Who are they? Where do I come from? What do I belong to? Where do I draw my boundary? How far can I experience life?
With these open-ended questions, I approach our conference – assured that together with all of you, some spark of light will touch our united hearts and carry us forward towards the Sun.
*from the book for children “The Sun is ours!”, published by the Publishing House Nuova Era and based on tales and legends taken from Agni Yoga books.
By Marina Bernardi