ADITYA, THE SUN GOD
In the Vedic tradition, our sun was called Aditya, the son of Aditi. As we have seen, Aditi represents the unbounded cosmic womb experienced on the scale of the half measure. The first great celestial body to be born from that womb corresponds to a star or sun.
For this reason, Aditya, the sun that shines in the sky, was viewed as the firstborn son of Aditi.Yet there was a deeper wisdom regarding the celestial body of the sun. It was viewed as the manifestation of twelve universal gods called the adityas, the first twelve gods in the Vedic canon, which correspond to the first twelve layers above the half measure and constitute collectively the sonic soul of the sun. Aditya, the sun that shines in the sky, may be understood as the celestial manifestation of the twelve adityas—the first twelve vacuum states in the upper half of the spectrum, which predominate with nonlocal synthesizing power.