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Question 31

Is there any significance behind Rama being sent into exile for fourteen years? Why fourteen years? Why not thirteen? Why not fifteen, why? (Laughter) What is so special about this number? (05.01.2003)

To be very, very honest, I don’t remember Swami saying anything about the number fourteen. Bhagavan has said several things about the number nine -- six being the Divine qualities and three being the human qualities: 6 + 3 = 9. He has said many things about the number nine. Why? Because the number nine is changeless. For example, 9 x 2 = 18 and 1 + 8 = 9. Likewise, 9 x 3 = 27 and 2 + 7 = 9. So you can go on multiplying like that -- nine is nine. There are six Divine features and three human qualities. So, He has spoken about the number nine. But, I don’t remember Swami saying anything about the number fourteen.

But if you want me to speculate -- subject to correction, subject to your acceptance -- if you want me to give an educated guess, then it could possibly be the five karmendriyas or five senses of action and the five jnanendriyas or five senses of perception – 5 + 5 = 10. Then the last four are manas, buddhi, chittha and ahamkaara. Manas is the mind or thinking. Chitta is the feeling. Buddhi is the intellect or decision-making capacity, and ahamkaara is the ego. 5 + 5 + 4 = 14. This might possibly be the nearest answer to this question, if not the right answer.

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