We all have 108 battles to win in our mind, but we don't really want to admit it's always about time to start defeating them one by one.
What normally happens is what the Kula Shaker song says "I'm just a man who's battling with his mind. One hundred and eight battles within the...Minds forever changing what you began..." So since this fact is so true I say let's take our mala and just chant on an on, someday we may win the battle.
Meanings of 108:
108 gopis or maid servants of Lord Krishna.
108 Holy places for Vaishnavas
108 beads on the Japa maalaa
108 is a Harshad number is from Sanskrit, and means "great joy".
108 energy lines converging to form the heart chakra. One of them, sushumna leads to the crown chakra, and is said to be the path to Self-realization.
108 breaths in a day, enlightenment will come.
108 Upanishads, texts of the wisdom of the ancient sages.
108 feelings, with 36 related to the past, 36 related to the present, and 36 related to the future.
108 is used in Islam to refer to God.
