I have always been thinking about the Indian epic,Ramayan.Why did Ravana,King of Lanka, have only TEN heads ? Why not Nine or Eleven ? Why only TEN ?
Why is Lord Vishnu manifested to the world as TEN avatars and everyone call the Lord as Das-avatar. Why was it not Eleven avatars,Gyarah-avatar, or Nine avatars,Nav-avatar ?
Why are there only TEN Commandments called as Decalogue ? Why was it not a Penta logue , Octa logue, Hexa Logue or Hende logue ? Why only TEN ?
Why are only TEN recitations of the Kuran considered uncanonical ? Why were there not Nine or Eleven ?
Why do we always talk about Top TEN movies, Top TEN songs , Top TEN rich men , Top TEN actors , Top TEN B'Schools , Top TEN Batsmen , Top TEN hot babes ?
Why do we have a public exam during the 10th grade ? Why only in 10th and not at 9th ?
Lord Ram used nine arrows to chop Nine heads of Ravana,King of Lanka, and then the Tenth head popped up. Had the Lord Ram used only eight arrows and realized that it was of no use chopping Ravana's head,may be today we would consider Ravana with only Nine heads ! Had Lord Ram used ten arrows and then realized the secret of Ravana's elixir of life, may be today we would consider the daemon Ravana posing with Eleven heads.
Why did the revelation about Ravana's elixir of life dawn upon only after the Tenth head popped out ?
When going through the TEN commandments two of those were really interesting.
1) Neither shall you commit adultery-extramarital sex.
2) Neither shall you covet your neighbor’s wife.
Don't you think both of them mean the same ? Can these two be clubbed together as "Neither shall you commit to illegal bedroom ventures" ?
Why were they broken down to two different commandments ? To make it up to TEN ?
According to the Bhagwad Purana, Lord Vishnu was considered to have appeared in Twenty two avatars but still only TEN were universally recognized ?
Why did my forefathers recognize only TEN ? Why did they leave out the remaining ?
In other words can I ask ," Why were only TEN avatars marketed ?
Is TEN a marketing figure ?
The numbers prior to ten are single digits and the ones after are double. Ten is the culmination of the numbers that come before it and beginning of a new order of number system. Furthermore numbering by tens is built in to our very anatomy, count up on your fingers and when they are all used, make a mark on a piece of paper and start from your first finger again. Soon you will have a number of marks, each representing 'two hands' worth. Thus in ancient times as in modern times ten is the start of a whole new order of numbers and the culmination of the numbers that come before it.
Thus wherever ten is found this completeness of order is also seen. Ten implies completeness of order, nothing lacking and nothing over. It signifies that the cycle is complete and that everything is in its proper order. Thus ten represents the perfection of divine order.
It is our natural, physical bodies with ten fingers and toes that make it "natural" to use a counting system based upon tens.
I think that just because we have ten fingers, the number ten might have a psychological effect on our brains and we find something ending in ten complete and orderly.
Does that raise a question as to whether all history is made up to market? I cannot answer that because my blog is only about number TEN!!!!
PS: The blog has nothing to hurt religious beliefs or has nothing to talk about atheism.Any such feelings is extremely regretted.The blog is only about the Number,TEN.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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9 comments:
No one can ever think of this..what is that running in your mind dude?..
excellent one!!!.
i think u started reading bible,kuran and geetha..that is good for you..
Do you know the famous jersey number in soccer ..it is "10"..mardona..rooney..messi
even tendulkar have the jersey number "10" of course tendulkar also have the "10" in his name..
the numberical systems units are multiple of "10's"..
quiet interesting and I am keeping tabs open for your continuation..
Interesting revelation !
It makes me wonder too about the hype or should I say , the enigma of number 10 :)
I dont think I am a great interpreter but i guess it is the 'sliding - tiles 'effect !
May be some person considered 10 coz the number appears and feels WHOLE and that soon became a trend . Rarely do ppl dig under covers to find out the reason behind it !
When we could follow pointless trends created in Bollywood / Hollywood without questioning , the same holds good for something as sacred or as important as this is !
Waiting for yer take to it :)
Btw I am attending a Decennial [ 10] celebration today at some place ;)
I Guess we can find something curious about all number if we dig up the facts. it is jsut like something doesnt exist unless you look for it. Anyway nice article about "10". Keep up the good work.
...and you get a perfect ten for this! Great work!
Hello,
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Thanks for your post.
Your post is quiet much interesting. Your post is really well written and briefly explained about number ten. Now I am also thinking about this number.
Thanks for sharing your article on number TEN.
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Hello Dear, I have just Read your article and it is very much active on the web. You are talking about the number "TEN" Well nice thoughts and I like your Sense of humor. And I don't think that some one ever think like you did. Its a human nature and Every one have different Thinking power. You think like that its good. Good Post!!!!
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