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Importance of Three...

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Shillong - 8th June 2010 THREE is an important number.  It is inauspicious in many religions.  It is odd whole number.  It is a natural number as well.  Just a day back I started reading 3 mistakes of may life by Chetan Bhagat .  It has been in the shelf for few months since I bought and every time I looked at the shelf, I heard a call from 3 mistakes, I attended to this call just on this Sunday. I shall write about the book once I am through with it, for the moment let me talk about numbers. One, Two, Three, Four, Five..... nth Three is an important number. We have grown with a nursery rhyme - Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool? Yes sir, yes sir, THREE bags full! One for the master, one for the dame, And one for the little boy who lives down the lane.  Why the poet s so concerned with only three bags, could be two or four, may be 3 is not more, and 3 is not less as well.  Of course it is relative.  It seems an Ideal number.  We are just three of us in the fa