Aditi, meaning free, unbound. Boundless heaven as compared with the finite earth. A Vedic goddess representing the primeval generator of all that emanated. The eternal space of the boundless whole, the unfathomable depth signifying the veil over the unknown.
The Rig Veda describes her a the mother of all gods; it is named Devamatri, mother of all gods, or Swabhavat, that which exists by itself. She is frequently implored for blessing children and cattle, for protection and forgiveness.
In the Yajur Veda, Aditi is addressed as the supporter of the sky, the sustainer of the earth, the sovereign of this world, and the wife of Vishnu.
Aditi gave birth to 8 Adityas of whom the 8th one, Martand is the present Sun of the present solar system. Besides being the goddess who mothered 8 Sun gods, she even represents Prithvi, the mother earth, Vach, the goddess of speech who articulates speech into creative impulse, she is also identified with Akasha, the all-perading substratum of all manifestation, and with Nirvana, liberation.
Psychologically Aditi is the supreme and infinite consciousness.
I had to put this on my blog, cos well who else would put it up. I dont know how much a name influences a person, or makes any difference in the way anyone looks at them. But I do know one thing. It makes me feel special to know what my name represents. I like thinking that the utterance of my name evokes images that are powerful and limitless. Being free, unbound and limitless, thats what I am supposed to represent. I doubt am even a fraction of a milimeter down that road, but it does give me a road to set upon.
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*hugs* for our precious all-rounder.. very interesting read, ditto.. and i'm gonna flick this.. no prizes for guessing where it goes ;)
oh super kewl.
I found out that Dennis is actually a greek god of wine. Now depends on how u interpret that. Does it signify the bottomless pit ... that devours alcohol ? Or does it merely suggest i have devine godly powers. Even as i type this out i have already disregarded explanation number 2 as utter rubbish.
FUnny thing is when i once signed in as DeeSee..... someone thought it was a bad spelling mistake for DIzzy. Which coincidently was my condition from the drinking spree the previous night !
Hmmm..... so maybe there is something to the whole name thing !
nice post! now i know who you are ;)
Being free and limitless is an oxymoro. If you are limitless, what are you free of? The urge to be free will surely lead you somewhere, but that somewhere is not free, neither it is not free... that place just does not have a concept of bounds and freedom. This is probably beyond the articulation power of language, and expresssivity of logic, and hence is the biggest speculation of rig veda, verbalised as this. Note the last lines, and be happy you have got the maximum of what you can know - "a road to set upon".
Could not resist the temptation, :) so pardon the philosophy overdose. BTW, how are you?
ok u need a new post
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