There are two types of meaning for all in Universal Mysticism, the Exoteric and the Esoteric.
What happens is that people take the exoteric or the literal meaning and say we are superstitious. The esoteric meaning is known only to an Initiate.When we say we worship snakes, it is not the physical snakes we worship. We worship the inner Snake, the Kundalini, the Serpent Power which lies coiled in humans ( vide Sir John Woodroffe " The Serpent Power " ).
Similarly we do not worship
the physicial Sun !
Look at this
verse
Sooryam na tva Graha
pathim
Jagath Ulpathi
Karanam
Vakshyami Veda
Nayanam
Yada Brahma Mukha Srutham.
Yada Brahma Mukha Srutham.
The mystic meaning is
that the Almighty Self, which transcend the three states relative, Jagath Ulpathi Karanam, is all in
all and the I am telling Thee the Eye of Learning, the Vision of the Vedas,
Astrology, and it cometh from a higher states of Consciousness, yada Brahma Mukha srutham
!
When we light a Lamp and
worship the Lord, we are worshipping the Divinity within. The mystic Ward said "
Within, within and within "!
Jnanagnim Bahyavagnim cha
Ekeekritya Prapoojayeth
Now when we say that it is not
the physical Sun which we worship but the Inner Sun, the Divine Solar
Consciousness, which is transcendental and which transcends Swapna, Jagrata and
Sushupti, then this verse becomes
pregnant with philosophic meaning.
Yasyodaye Jagath idam
Prathibhodham ethi
Madya sthithou prasarathi
prakriti kriya su