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Originally Posted by Captain
I prefer to say Namaste aloud or silently, works better for me. "The divine in me acknowledges and honors the divine in you". Easy, no extra reasoning or logic required.
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No offence, I personally don't like using that word and don't like when other people use it on me, unless it is said by an indian in the correct context. I thought it meant "bowing to you". And I also thought it was Hindu.
Either way it truly doesn't make sense to me when people steal words and rituals from other cultures without knowing what they truly mean and/or giving it new meaning.
I don't think we need to use words that are popular in new age communities or yoga classes just to sound more spiritual.
I wish people could just be themselves and stop talking like how they think spiritual people should sound like.
Oh and another thing that I don't like about "namaste" is the people who think it means "my soul recognizes yours". Most of the time, they really don't. Why would they say that if it's not true. I guess recognizing that we are all one is a lot different than telling someone that you recognize their soul and that you have a soul connection to them, but a lot of people seem to think namaste means that. I think that if I truly felt that way about someone, I wouldn't say it using 1 word. Namaste has become as belittling as calling a stranger "buddy" in this day of age, at least that's how I hear most people using it these days.
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