Mystical Number 108

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Mystical Number 108

A Day consists of 60 ghatis, a ghati of 60 vighatis, a vighati of 60 pal.

Duration of a day has 60x60x60=21600 pal.

Day has 10800 pal and night has 10800 pal.

Zodiac has 108 Vavamsas or 108 quarters of Nakshatras.

Our Kalp lasts for 4x108=432 crore of solar years.

Is it not amazing?

Shiv Chadha

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Visti Larsen

vedic astrology

Tuesday, December 18, 2001 2:22 PM

Re: [vedic astrology] Re: Chanting of Mantras

Vyam Vysadevaya Namaha!-----------------Dear

Venkatesh,9 * 12 = 108.Maybe thats the answer.Even christian rosaries have 108

beads.Best wishes, Visti.--- chandan_astro <chandan_astro > wrote:> I

read somewhere that 108= 27 Nakstras * 4 pada/half> for each > Nakstras.> I am

not sure if this is true.> Chandan> > vedic astrology, jagmeet s

dheendsa> <jsdheendsa@j...> > wrote:> > Dear Shri Venkatesh,> > I was told that

mantras are to be chanted 108> times to make up for > any> > mistakes

(shortfalls) in counting.What I> understand about the japa > count> > is that

if someone wants to obtain a sidhi or if> one has to do as a> > remedial

measure (for adverse conditions though> techinically there > is> > nothing

adverse)than one is required to keep> count.So by this logic > if> > you do

more than 108 count you will complete the> required number> > earlier.One can

increase the count but can not > reduce or one has to> > start again.> > If one

is doing japa with mala then one doesn't> have to worry about > count> > as mala

has 108/54/27 beads.Moreover the act of> using the mala > makes one> >

concentrate on the japa.> > The significance of 108 ,I have no idea.> > With

regards> > Jagmeet> > P.S.:I was hoping that more learned members would> throw

light on > this but> > then I didn't want your question going unanswered> and

if I am wrong> > hopefully someone will correct me.> >

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