The Intriguing Repetition of 108 In Our Lives | Sadhguru

this is very beautifully found manifestation in the planetary system in which we live the diameter of the earth the diameter of the sun the distance between moon and earth and in terms of how the earth's orbit is divided based on this knowing the connection between the celestial system and the human system many things were evolved and developed [Music] so a journalist was interviewing me and he asked me sadhguru in india so many people in the ancient past have worked for human consciousness who do you think has contributed significantly in the western hemisphere without hesitation i said charles darwin so he said how's charles darwin he's a biologist now in the western hemisphere he is the one who put this idea if a life strives it can go beyond its limitations these limitations are not god given these limitations are not absolute if one is willing to strive he can go beyond his limitations even you know a pig can become an elephant a goat can become a giraffe not a small change isn't it i will not talk about the monkeys okay so this possibility that if a human being strives he can go beyond his limitations then this is close to 15 000 years ago they asked this question does it mean to say we can change our physicality that we can evolve so are the yogi sad your physical evolution is complete and he gave mathematical references as to why it is so so when they asked can our bodies evolve he referred to their bodies and he said [Music] there are 114 junction points of energy in the system which in yogic systems we are referring to as chakras there are 114 chakras out of this two are outside the body 112 in the body out of this 112 there are four about which you can do nothing they will blossom if everything else is activated there are 108 that you can work with so because of this you will see traditionally if you wear beads it's one or eight if you chant a mantra it's one or eight if you go around an energy space one or eight this is because there are 108 things that one needs to do if he wants to have a complete mastery over the human mechanism itself this is very beautifully found manifestation in the planetary system in which we live 108 times the diameter of the earth is the diameter of the sun the diameter of the sun 108 times is the distance between the sun and the earth diameter of the moon into 108 times is the distance between moon and earth and in terms of how the earth's orbit is divided even that amounts to 108 for example the positions that the earth takes around the sun is called one nakshatra there are 27 nakshatras nakshatra is not a star it is a measuring unit here there are 27 nakshatras and these 27 also indicate one half of the lunar cycle the 27 nakshatras means 13 and a half lunar months and that's how the lunar calendar functions and akshatra is divided into four padas that means one eighth of the moon's cycle [Music] which is approximately 3.5 days 27 nakshatras into four fathers is one or eight fathers in one year so with the completion of one year there are 108 fathers so this is almost like the beads that you wear 108. right now the planet earth is arranging itself in the form of 108 beads around the sun and accordingly you use 108 beads whenever you wear this is almost like beads around the sun's circumference based on this knowing the connection between the celestial system and the human system many things were evolved and developed it's very uncanny that now in the last six years the neuroscientists in the world are saying the same things this has been a search can we evolve human brain beyond its present limitations so neuroscientists today are saying that you cannot evolve the human brain any further not because of neurological principles but because of physical loss on the planet the only way you can involve this is increase the size of the neurons that is one way or increase the number of neurons that's another way if you increase the number of neurons in your brain the clarity will go away a lot of children are born like this they're brilliant but they can't figure anything because there's no clarity as they grow up some amount of brain killing will happen naturally and then they become stable if they don't they'll always be scattered another way is to increase the size of the neuron if you increase the size of the neuron the volume of energy that an individual neuron consumes will be so high even to even now if you are in a restful position right now 20 of your energies are being consumed by your brain right now it's a very high energy consuming part of your body this much of body consumes eighty percent this much of brain i'm sorry don't be insulted by the size okay um this much of brain is consuming 20 of the energy if you increase the size of the neuron it will consume 30 to 40 percent that means it will become unsustainable so today neuroscientists are saying physical loss on the planet will not evo allow further growth of human brain we can only learn to use it better but we cannot grow a bigger brain this aadhi yogi said 15 000 years ago he said your physical evolution is complete because the solar system will not allow unless some dramatic changes happen in the solar system you cannot physically evolve but there are other ways to evolve and he thought the methods as to how a human being can evolve beyond his limitations and it need not be a physical evolution it does not mean you lost your tail and you have to grow horns it means that there are other ways to evolve which need not be physical [Music] hey