Tryambakum

Tri—means three
Ambakam—means eyes
Amba—Mother or Shakti (female life-force energy)

The number three is found in many religions, many things come in threes, there is the body, mind and spirit, God as Omniscient, Omnipresent, and Omnipotent, the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit. Earth, Sky and Heavens, the three gunas, rajas (active) tamas (lazy) and sattvic (balance of action and inaction- stillness). A stool with three legs is always more stable and will be much more solid then a chair with four legs—because even if one of the legs is shorter then the other the stool still will not wobble. Three is a good number—it covers all the bases.
I am excited to have three parts to my travel trip, China with a friend, South India on a business/academic, and then India as a yoga/spiritual adventure. The combination of these three feels like a solid, balanced trip to body, mind and soul. Hopefully by the end of these adventures I will feel like a stool, balanced and stable—not wobbly, and enriched in all areas of life.