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Chandogya Upanishad

Prapathaka III, Khanda 8
Hindu trans. Max Müller • c. c. 800-600 BCE (translation 1879)
1
On the third of these nectars the Âdityas live, with Varuna at their head. True, the Devas do not eat or drink, but they enjoy by seeing the nectar.
2
They enter into that (dark) colour, and they rise from that colour.
3
He who thus knows this nectar, becomes one of the Âdityas, with Varuna at their head, he sees the nectar and rejoices. And he, having entered that colour, rises again from that colour.
4
So long as the sun rises in the south and sets in the north, twice as long does it rise in the west and set in the east; and so long does he follow the sovereign supremacy of the Âdityas.