Numerology

Numbers have great meaning and significance. Age old beliefs about certain numbers being good or cursed is there in all cultures. Be it the infamous number 13 or the lucky 7. The practise of giving odd number values such as 101 or 501 in gifts or in donation is prevalent in India. Each culture, region has its own interpretation on what is auspicious and what is to be avoided.

The science of deriving meaning from numbers – the numerology has several interpreters hence several sets of meanings. What one teacher or a branch considers the meaning of a number say 5 will not certainly be the meaning given to it by another. We have over the years put so much effort in to making up meanings in these great concept of numbers that many believe that the entire personality, future events, past actions can be derived from the date of your birth or license number of your vehicle or your mobile phone number.

While for those who are truly gifted in reading the universe even these could be a handle to further their understanding, however trying to build a science around the numerology is somewhat ingenuous.

For example you might say the number one denotes great personal power, this number means that you don’t listen to random people, instead you have your own individuality. All this is well. But putting that in practise, saying that everybody born on the 1st, 10th, 19th or on 28th of a month belongs to number 1 and hence carry these attributes is taking things too far and simplifying the great mystery and variety of life too much.

Today is 1st of March. However according to several Indian calendars in use for tens of centuries today is a totally different date. So why would today belong to the number 1?

Numbers as concepts have great value and meanings. But using the dates or mobile numbers to do prediction is not suitable as far as I am concern. The practise of prashna jyotisha or kavadi prashna will give far greater results if done by an intuitive and knowledgeable person.

To wrap this up, here is my interpretation of few numbers (thought up in a few minutes).

One is myself. This denotes an individual and the universe. two is the other. Here duality enters. I’m not the only existence, there is another. The number 3 denotes our first rival and our first teammate. The number 4 brings balance.

What do you think the number 5 means?