Hare krishna fellow sadhu great to read your post on 108 and Sri Sri Radhe Shyam. As a sadhu I also lived in India for a while during my brahmachari years in my twenties, learning from the babajis in Vrindavan about the pastimes and lila of Radha Krishna. Also the japa on mala or 108 beads daily was a blissful meditation practice as taught to me by Srila Prabhupada my siksha guru.