Gocaram: ESSENCE OF NUMBERS

नव = NINE

The number 9 is revered in Hinduism and considered a complete, perfected and divine number because it represents the end of a cycle in the decimal system, which originated from the Indian subcontinent as early as 3000 BC. According to the Hindus, this number is denoted as a complete, perfected, and divine number as it completes a whole cycle of the decimal system.

We can say that Number 9 is a fortunate number as this number brings a prosperity, happiness and good luck in life. Number 9 is associated with Mars and its a powerful number but the people who are born on the dates 9, 18, 27 have an aggression issue as they easily get angry on small things.

In numerology, the number 9 is powerful. It represents completion, although not a final ending - more like the fulfillment of one cycle so that you can prepare to initiate the next one. It's a recognition of life's ongoing ebb and flow.

In Sanskrit, the following words indicate the number 9:-

1) नवद्वाराणि or छिद्राणि or रन्ध्राणि

(नेत्रे नासिके कर्णौ मुखं चेति सप्त शिरोगतानि अधोगते द्वे पायूपस्थरूपे इत्येवं नव द्वाराणि ) = Nine gates of the human body = Two ears, two eyes, two nostrils, and mouth are in the head for one's own experiences, and two are below for urination and defecation.

Srimad Bhagavad Gita Says:-

सर्वकर्माणि मनसा संन्यस्यास्ते सुखं वशी। नवद्वारे पुरे देही नैव कुर्वन्न कारयन्।।5.13।।

The embodied self, mentally resigning all actions as belonging to the city of nine gates (i.e., the body) and becoming self-controlled, dwells happily, neither himself acting nor causing the body to act.

2) नवरसाः (शृङ्गार, वीर, करुणा, हास्य, रौद्र, भयानक, बीभत्स,अद्भुत, शान्ताः) = The Nine Rasas

Sringara or the erotic, Vira or the heroic, Karuna or the pathos, Hasya or the comic, Raudra or the furious, Bhayanaka or the frightful, Bhibatsa or the loathsome, Adbhuta or the wonderful and Santa or the trsnquil are the nine rasas;

3) नवनिधयः (पद्म, महापद्म, शङ्ख, कच्छप, कुमुद, कुन्द, खर, नीलादयः) = Padma, Mahapadma is the great lotus flower, which symbolizes a lake double the size of Padma, Shankha, Makara, Kachchhapa, Kumuda, Kunda, Kharva, Nila;

4) नवग्रहाः (आदित्यः, सोमः, मङ्गलः, बुधः, गुरुः, शुक्रः, शनिः, राहुः, केतुः) = Nine Planets = Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Rahu and Ketu;

5) नवदुर्गाः (शैलपुत्री, ब्रह्मचारिणी, चंद्रघंटा, कूष्मांडा, स्कंदमाता, कात्यायनी, कालरात्रि, महागौरी, सिद्धिदात्री) = Nine epithets of Goddess DurgaDevi =