Guest guest Posted November 3, 2001 Report Share Posted November 3, 2001 Could the learned assembly shed light on the following passage? I never quite understood it thoroughly, although I've read it many times. I do know mathemathics, but why the particular number of 81 appears there, that is, why the number nine is multiplied twice with three? (That is, not once, not thrice, like that.) "Devotional service in the modes of ignorance, passion and goodness can be divided into eighty-one categories. There are different devotional activities, such as hearing, chanting, remembering, worshiping, offering prayer, rendering service and surrendering everything, and each of them can be divided into three qualitative categories. There is hearing in the mode of passion, in the mode of ignorance and in the mode of goodness. Similarly, there is chanting in the mode of ignorance, passion and goodness, etc. Three multiplied by nine equals twenty-seven, and when again multiplied by three it becomes eighty-one." (SB 3.29.10) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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