Hello friends, it is I Duncan Trustle and you are listening to the Duncan Trustle family hour podcast

And this is the one hundred and eight

Episode of this podcast and the number 108 is a transcendent number

eight plus one is nine nine represents three threes three represents the Trinity father son Holy Ghost Brahman Vishnu

Shiva the thesis the antithesis and the synthesis

Mother father child it goes on and on and on the triangle the connections in the Sri Yantra Mandala

the golden mean it represents so many things many of which I don't understand at all

including the rasa Lila

rasa means juice and Lila means dance and the rasa Lila refers to in

Vaishnava mythology this sacred night where Krishna on in the forest of in Vrindavan was so overcome by the beauty of nature that he began to play as flute and

This mystical sound of God playing as flute out in the forest caused all the gope girls to leave whatever it was

They were doing to go dance with Krishna and

Krishna split himself up into 108 parts so that he could individually make love with each of those sweet cow her gals

And that's a very deep thing on the surface

It sounds like it already is pretty deep. It sounds like a psychedelic

Space orgy, but the thing that it's pointing to at least in my

Mind is the idea that you can have a direct communication

with nature the supreme intelligence or if you want to be lazy God and

That's that's a beautiful story. There's 108 beads on

many Mala's that people chant on including the Mala's that the Hari Krishna's chant on there's actually 109 beads

But the 109th bead which is sort of at the center of the Mala

is

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