The Magic of Three

“The reason people are saying, 'Be in the moment,' is because they are not suffering life; they are suffering their memory and their imagination, the two most fantastic faculties that a human being has.”

—Sadhguru

Namaskaram to the trimurti of Shankar, Ehsaan, Loy! Well, there is trimurti, trinetra, trishula, trikala–all these things are an evolution of ideas from the fundamental experience of human life.

Essentially, human experience of life happens between memory, which belongs to the past or bhuta-kala; our experience, which is always vartamana or the present; and our imagination and aspirations, which are of the future or bhavishya. The many aspects which spring from these three experiences were crystallized in our culture as “tri”: trinetra, trikala, trishula, and you guys, trimurtis.

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