What is the significance of the number 108 ?
There are 108 beads on a Mala string ...
There is a triangle made by three points in the head. The path of Sushumna (the main sublte nerve channel) goes from Mula, in Sahasrara Chakra, to Ajna Chakra in the forehead to Mastaka Granthi (head knot) at the base of the skull.
We generally inhale 21,600 times daily. If, by Yoga methods, we can reduce that number to 108 breaths, the prana (lifeforce) stays within that triangle. At this stage one is totally Enlightened.
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