Word

Adhidaiva

Sanskrit

अधिदैव

IAST

adhidaiva

In General

Adhidaiva is the presiding power of Devas. Adidaiva is the creative energy or the superintending Divinity, transcending the subject and the object. The one infinite Being or the Adhidaiva appears as the two, namely, Purusha and Prakriti, or the Adhyatma and the Adhibhuta, the subject and the object. We may call the infinite Divinity as Devata. In the beginning of 8th chapter of Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna ask few difficult philosophical questions?. If everything is Brahman then why a subject and object come in Yagna and who perceive all these. Bhagavan Krishna answers this question with tripartite creation Adyatma, Adibhuta, and Adidaiva without violating the principle of Maya.