Namaste has been a way of greeting one another in the land of Bharat, India. The usage of this word dates back to ancient India. When I hear ancient India the only things comes to my mind is mysticism. Indians have gifted this world with a series of great literature on mind, body and consciousness which has been attributed to it's most basic form as yoga, making it conceivable to masses. The highest levels of subjective research were performed by the yogis in their universal nature to attain the most sophisticated texts for mankind. It is hard to actually bring this amount of information into someones consciousness when they have been emphatically been pushed into a system where they have accepted their realities as destined. When the truth is they are ignorant of their unimaginable self. Bhagwat Gita has the answers to your holy curiosities.
I actually saw posts of Namaste being tossed around by the spiritual websites that are trying a different way to submit sense into the young generation by attempting relatable posts. However the word started to lose it's meaning with it's unclear understanding of translation. There are words which are unique to every language, that are perpetrated due to culture or the society's tolerance to challenge it's thinking process. God bless the artists. Namaste has no equivalent word in any foreign language unless it may have been adapted under a different syllables. To your own amusement. you may already know that Namaste is not when you drop LSD at a rave and you magically attain the eternal wisdom it is something beyond it.
Namaste is a union of gratitude, reverence and divinity etched into eternity. It is a common expression of love, respect and humility. It transcends the continuum of time and space. If you have not had a realisation of being one with the source, you will never be able to experience the immensity and the depth of namaste,. Hello, hola, parev, bonjour.. nothing encircles the beauty of namaste. Other languages are more or less pragmatic or superficial when it comes to greetings and salutations. Namaste is conveyed by folding hands in front of the person at the time of greeting and the hand position is intrinsically same while offering obeisances to a deity.
We do not meet one another as persons in several aspects of our total life, but know one another only fractionally, as the man who guards your house, a vendor who serves food, the humanistic reality of others doesn't come through.
– C Wright Mills
In his book, The politics of Truth writes, The American sociologist writes that we only meet one another as fragments of our imagination. It is a very limited amount of data that we gather. The gatekeeper who guards your house, the vendor who serves you food. Our ideas of each other are segmented into little bits of information that is puny when compared to our unlimited potential of being. All of us are identified with our personalities, to get that sense of belongingness but in the pursuit of looking this recognition and stability we are separating ourselves from the one formless existence that is common between you and I. Our attachment to our identities gives birth to ego and hence hurdles the path of realisation. The truth is unfathomable for a person who is immersed in ego. This is what leads to ignorance of the masses.
Namaste uplifts us from our earth duties to our existence in higher dimension. When we are no longer identified by our temporary self we can finally accept each other for who we are. The moral codes and the peace movements would be redundant if we come to this realisation. We are still juggling with our identities and it doesn't seem to be helping mankind. However with our change in lifestyles in the metropolitan cities the usage of Namaste as a common greetings has declined. Our generation, we don't greet each other using Namaste. Times are changing and so is our sense of belongingness. It is not the culture I am worried about but our sense of self. The mightiest of kings, civilisations and cultures have succumbed to time. Namaste transcends all. So when I say namaste I am not going back to revive a thousands of year old civilisation but to connect with your higher self. The same divinity that resides in you and I. Namaste!
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