Hindu term. The masculine aspect of the creative force which, when combined with the feminine aspect Adishakti, creates Shakti, the primordial force or energy of the universe.
Adishakti
Hindu term. The feminine aspect of the creative force which, when combined with the masculine aspect Adibuddha, creates Shakti, the primordial force or energy of the universe.
Aditi
Sanskrit: अदिति = “limitless” or “boundless”
The Vedic name for Mulaprakriti, the abstract aspect of Parabrahman, though both are unmanifested and unknowable. In the Vedas, Aditi is the indivisible conscious-force and ananda of the Supreme; the Mother; the infinite Mother of the gods; supreme Nature or infinite Consciousness.
Aditi is a Vedic goddess in Hinduism, the personification of the infinite. She is the goddess of the earth, sky, unconsciousness, the past, the future and fertility. She is the mother of the celestial deities the Adityas, and is referred to as the mother of many gods. 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 feminized form of Brahma and associated with the primal substance (mulaprakriti) in Vedanta. She is mentioned nearly 80 times in the Rigveda.
Agni
(Sk., “fire”). The Fire; God of Fire in the Veda; the oldest and most revered of the Gods in India. Agni is one of the three great deities: Agni, Vayu, and Surya, and he is also all three, as he is the triple aspect of Fire: the Sun in heaven; Lightning or air in the atmosphere; ordinary Fire on earth. Agni belonged to the earlier Vedic Trimurti (Trinity) before Vishnu was given a place of honour, and before Brahma and Shiva were manifested.