108 Steps to Enlightenment

By: David Cochrane  Some Buddhist temples have 108 steps leading to the temple, there are 108 beads in the Hindu beads used for prayer, very roughly analogous to the Christian rosary, and Krishna has 108 gopis surrounding him. The number 108 appears as a critically important number in sacred scriptures, myths, architecture, and rituals. WHY 108? The number 108 is…