Aditi
Aditi (devanāgarī: अदिति) is a Sanskrit word that means limitless (from a "without" and diti "bound"). In the Vedas Aditi is mother of the gods (devamatri) from whose cosmic matrix the heavenly bodies were born. Aditi is associated with the primal substance (mulaprakriti) in Vedanta. As celestial mother of every existing form and being, the synthesis of all things, she is associated with space (akasa) and with mystic speech (Vāc). She may be seen as a female aspect of Brahmā.
In Theosophy
H. P. Blavatsky writes that Aditi is the abstract aspect of Parabrahman mulaprakriti, both unmanifested and unknowable,[1] although this principle can be related to space in its different aspects or stages of differentiation. For example, Aditi becomes Vâch in its third aspect.[2] According to Blavatsky Aditi-Vâch is the female Logos, or the “word,” Verbum.[3]
In Hinduism
Notes
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 7.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 430.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 431.
Further reading
- Āditi at Theosopedia