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The Tradition

What the texts actually say about the numbers, the practice, and the place. Written at length, sourced where a source exists, and free to read without giving us anything.

432
The measure of an age
The age we are living in is 432,000 years long, every other age is a multiple of it, and a single day of Brahma is 4,320,000,000 years. Also, honestly, what to make of the 432 hertz claim.
108
The number of the mala
Every rosary in the tradition has 108 beads, and one more that is never counted. Why that number: the 108 padas of the nakshatras, the names of God, and the astronomical ratios that are a coincidence worth telling honestly.
27
The mansions of the Moon
All twenty-seven nakshatras with their symbols and deities, why Vedic astrology reads the Moon rather than the Sun, and the twenty-eighth that is usually left out of the count.
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Sankalpa
The declaration of purpose spoken at the opening of every ceremony, and the difference between a name held silently and a name spoken aloud.
In preparation
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Agni
Why the offering goes into fire and not into water, earth or air. The messenger, and the reason every Yagya is built around a flame.
In preparation
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