Srilanka, Sept. 8 -- No subject is separable from another, they say. Such a statement could have more validity whenseemingly opposed subjects share a strange interconnection with each other. Perhaps the subjects speak for themselves.

This is quite apparent between a branch of mathematics and the vast cosmos of spirituality-108, to be more precise. The number belongs to numerology. It is spoken of widely in connection with the spiritual forte, especially in the East.

108 has travelled across the temples of Varanasi to the monasteries of Tibet. It has etched some place in the diagrams of astrology.

What makes 108 so pervasive? Why does it appear so deliberately in spiritual practices? And why in the very geometry of the cosmos? Those amo...