This morning I was email moaning to a friend that today the high here in my new home in Marana, Arizona was supposed to be 108. She answered back, "108! There's nothing holy about that!" I don't know if she was kidding or not, but it hit me like a bolt of lightening, a Cosmic wake-up: there's everything holy about that!
I knew a little about it, that there are 108 beads on a prayer mala, and 108 stitches in a baseball, which I learned from the movie "Bull Durham." But I didn't know why, so I turned to Google, where really you can find just about anything.
In Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, 108 is considered a sacred number. The Vedic explanation is that, broken down to its three numbers, it represents creation, the power of the Universe, and our own human existence. The numbers also represent new beginnings and paths and attaining long-desired goals. In Sanscrit it is called a "harshad" number, divisible by the sum of its digits and meaning "great joy" or "joy giver," depending on the source.
The weather here was already looking better! But wait, there's so much more!
From Sadhguru on his Youtube videos, I learned that the diameter of the Sun X 108 = the distance from the Sun to the Earth. Then I read on the Himalayan Yoga Institute site that since the path of the Earth around the sun is elliptical, this is only 100% true on September 18 & 19. Since September 19 just happens to be my birthday (every year) I am now super stoked, especially wanting to make this day count, since it's forecast as our last 108 of the year, Gracias a Dios.
Ditto for the Moon, that her diameter X 108 = the distance from the Earth to the Moon, but only once a month, since that path, too, is elliptical.
And the diameter of the Earth X 108 = the diameter of the Sun. It can't be a coincidence.
Galileo said the Universe is written in "mathematical language," which takes us into the realm of sacred geometry and Fibonacci sequences, of which 108, or maybe 1.08, is an integral aspect of the pattern. If you already know about Fibonacci patterns, like the whorl of the nautilus and the seeds of a sunflower, you know how precise and perfect they are. Sacred geometry represents perfectly symmetrical proportions and the number 108 is geometrically elegant and highly divisible.
Why do yogis revere 108? There are 108 chakras in the human body, according to my sources, and 108 beads on a prayer mala, which represent the 108 mortal desires to overcome. The 109th bead, which I always thought of as the turnaround bead, represents the one supreme desire to transcend all these mortal desires. Like the One Ring. And when offering Sun Salutations, in Suryanamaskar, traditionally 9 rounds of the 12 positions are performed. 9 X 12 = 108.
Numbers are messengers. 108 connects the physical to the metaphysical, the outer to the inner. It is a number sacred in mathematics, geometry, astrology and numerology along with all these spiritual connections. And in modern Gnosticism, it is believed 108 previous incarnations can be remembered, which should keep me busy until the weather turns and I can go outside again!
I knew a little about it, that there are 108 beads on a prayer mala, and 108 stitches in a baseball, which I learned from the movie "Bull Durham." But I didn't know why, so I turned to Google, where really you can find just about anything.
In Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, 108 is considered a sacred number. The Vedic explanation is that, broken down to its three numbers, it represents creation, the power of the Universe, and our own human existence. The numbers also represent new beginnings and paths and attaining long-desired goals. In Sanscrit it is called a "harshad" number, divisible by the sum of its digits and meaning "great joy" or "joy giver," depending on the source.
The weather here was already looking better! But wait, there's so much more!
From Sadhguru on his Youtube videos, I learned that the diameter of the Sun X 108 = the distance from the Sun to the Earth. Then I read on the Himalayan Yoga Institute site that since the path of the Earth around the sun is elliptical, this is only 100% true on September 18 & 19. Since September 19 just happens to be my birthday (every year) I am now super stoked, especially wanting to make this day count, since it's forecast as our last 108 of the year, Gracias a Dios.
Ditto for the Moon, that her diameter X 108 = the distance from the Earth to the Moon, but only once a month, since that path, too, is elliptical.
And the diameter of the Earth X 108 = the diameter of the Sun. It can't be a coincidence.
Galileo said the Universe is written in "mathematical language," which takes us into the realm of sacred geometry and Fibonacci sequences, of which 108, or maybe 1.08, is an integral aspect of the pattern. If you already know about Fibonacci patterns, like the whorl of the nautilus and the seeds of a sunflower, you know how precise and perfect they are. Sacred geometry represents perfectly symmetrical proportions and the number 108 is geometrically elegant and highly divisible.
Why do yogis revere 108? There are 108 chakras in the human body, according to my sources, and 108 beads on a prayer mala, which represent the 108 mortal desires to overcome. The 109th bead, which I always thought of as the turnaround bead, represents the one supreme desire to transcend all these mortal desires. Like the One Ring. And when offering Sun Salutations, in Suryanamaskar, traditionally 9 rounds of the 12 positions are performed. 9 X 12 = 108.
Numbers are messengers. 108 connects the physical to the metaphysical, the outer to the inner. It is a number sacred in mathematics, geometry, astrology and numerology along with all these spiritual connections. And in modern Gnosticism, it is believed 108 previous incarnations can be remembered, which should keep me busy until the weather turns and I can go outside again!
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