Naturally, due to less or no exposure to sunlight, biological clock, energy level and happiness are adversely affected. Those who work with subtle energy (auras) recognise that there are three primary sources of prana (life force energy)—earth, air, and of course, sun. Mysore-based pranic healer Vaibhav B explains, “Deprivation of sun prana has a weakening effect on the energy body and in turn, the physical body and the mind. Air globules get charged by sun prana. And when there’s hardly any sun prana to draw from, all chakras (energy junctions in the energy body) get affected and people tend to go into depression.”
Be it medical professionals, ayurveda experts, or energy healers, all agree on the irrevocable importance of sunlight on our wellbeing. No wonder our elders always say we are meant to rise with the sun and set with the sun. Given the kind of impact sunlight has on our physical and mental bodies, syncing our life’s activities with the rising and setting of sun is imperative. Sanskrit and Vedic scholar C V Giridhara Shastry sums this up nicely, translating a verse from the Rigveda:
tat sūryasya devatvaṁ tan mahitvam madhyā kartor vitataṁ saṁ jabhāra
yaded ayukta haritaḥ sadhasthād ād rātrī vāsas tanute simasmai
When the sun withdraws his rays,
Agriculture and other activities cease midway;
Such is his divinity, such is his majesty.
When he withdraws his rays from here and turns them elsewhere,
Night darkens the direction.