Three facts that any book on astronomy will verify:
* Distance between earth and sun = 108 times sun-diameter,
* Distance between earth and moon = 108 times moon-diameter, and most remarkably,
* Diameter of the sun = 108 times the earth diameter.
We can understand that the 108 beads of the rosary (japamala) must map the steps between the body and the inner sun. The devotee, while saying beads, is making a symbolic journey from the physical body to the heavens.
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