Aditi: Mother of the gods, primordial virgin and image of Infinity

In the Rig Veda texts, Aditi is presented as the mother of the Adityas , those luminous gods associated with cosmic order (ṛta), truth, light, and justice. The name Aditi literally means unbound , free from all constraints . This shows that she knows no limits, no attachments, no divisions. She is whole, complete.

Aditi is described as a primordial virgin , without beginning or end, existing before all creation. She was not born, but she is there, always. She gives birth to the gods, and yet she does not age, does not change, does not transform. She therefore represents something absolute, unlimited.

In this role, she embodies infinity itself . She is the boundless cosmic space, the matrix from which all things are born. She is not a goddess in the human sense, but rather an eternal, cosmic force , the origin of the world and the divine order.

Some sages see in her a feminine and accessible form of Brahman , the ultimate reality in Indian philosophies. Brahman, too vast, too abstract, can seem distant. But Aditi, as Mother Goddess , makes this idea of infinity closer, more intuitive. She is at once mother, void, space, and totality .

In the Rig Veda, she is said to be the mother of Varuṇa, Mitra, Aryaman, Bhaga, Dakṣa, and other Adityas . But she is also sometimes their daughter, or their sister. These role plays show that in the Vedic world, the divine does not always follow human logic. Everything comes from her, and yet she is in all things. She is the mother of the world , and also the world itself.

Aditi is therefore absolute freedom , the silent origin , the luminous infinity , the formless Goddess . A figure who unites the mysteries of birth, the universe, and that which exceeds all limits.