Surya
Aditya — son of Aditi (Surya name 9 of 12)
ॐ आदित्याय नमः
Simple reading
Om aa-dit-yaa-ya na-mah
Oṁ Ādityāya Namaḥ
About this mantra
Aditya, 'son of Aditi', is the ninth name, and it reaches for the sun's mother. Aditi is boundlessness itself, the unfenced infinite; her sons, the Adityas, are cosmic order walking. To call the sun Aditya is to remember that even this vastness was born of something vaster.
Meaning
Om, salutations to Aditya, son of the boundless Aditi. The mantra folds the blazing sun back into a lineage: born of the infinite, carrying the infinite's order across the sky. The reciter bows to the light, and through it to the boundlessness behind every bounded thing.
Learn it by heart
Say the first line until it comes without reading, then add the next line and say both, until the whole mantra comes on its own.
Whole mantra
This mantra is a single line. Learn it whole, then add it to your review deck so it comes back for a check.
ॐ आदित्याय नमः
Oṁ Ādityāya Namaḥ
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Aim for eleven. Stop reading as soon as the whole mantra comes on its own.
Progress stays on this device.
When to recite it
One of the twelve names of the Surya Namaskar cycle, recited one per posture at sunrise, or counted together as a Sunday (Ravivar) jaap. Called on when perspective is needed: grief, overwhelm, and decisions that need a wider sky.
Word by word
- ॐoṁ
- the primordial sound
- आदित्यायādityāya
- son of Aditi, the boundless
- नमःnamaḥ
- I bow, salutations
Source: Sūrya Namaskāra mantra sequence (traditional twelve names of Sūrya)