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Namaste
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I was talkin to my friend I met on my mini festi tour this past summer and we were talkin bout yoga. She shared with me the definition of Namaste her teacher has written in her... studio, or whatever it's called. Just wanted to share it because I really liked it.

Namaste - The light of God within me, recognizes and honors the light of God within you. In this recognition is our oneness.

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Re: Namaste [Re: Platinum]
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Platinum said:
Namaste - The light of God within me, recognizes and honors the light of God within you. In this recognition is our oneness.


Was always wondering what that meant. :cheers:

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Re: Namaste [Re: c0sm0nautt]
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Well, I don't know too much about it, but from my understanding the concept is just understood by those who use the word. Though definitions may vary from person to person, they generally encompass the same concepts.

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Re: Namaste [Re: Platinum]
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many different translations!  i love that word!

i like:

"the divine in me bows to the divine in you"

:aum:


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Re: Namaste [Re: yogabunny]
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yea. it's an awesome greeting. I love the way it rolls at the tip of your tongue when saying it.

the translation I was told is 'the divine within me greets the divine within you.' They all seem to be the same same but different.

I find it really similar to the mantra 'aum namah shivaya', which means something like 'aum and salutations to that which I am capable of becoming'.
Namah: Adoration, homage, respect. Nothing is mine (as an individual person); everything is thine (as the Absolute Reality).
Shivaya: That Absolute Reality that is the ground out of which the others emerge. In the Realization of this, one comes to see that he or she is one and the same with the Absolute Reality.

Both acknowledge the presence of the divine [shiva, as I would call it] in everyone and everything-- or that everything is shiva.


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Re: Namaste [Re: shivas.wisdom]
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i love humming/chanting softly om namah sivaya while cooking or doing stuff around my house.

:peace:


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Re: Namaste [Re: yogabunny]
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I used to like chanting Om Shanti before falling asleep.


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Re: Namaste [Re: Platinum]
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kinda like "I see you" from Avatar


i like.

namaste

or

c ya
:wink:


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Re: Namaste [Re: yogabunny]
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yogabunny said:
i love humming/chanting softly om namah sivaya while cooking or doing stuff around my house.

:peace:


I do similar. When I am outside walking or anywhere I won't look crazy muttering to myself, I'll repeat it over and over.

My most recent DMT was very interesting, because I ended up repeating 'aum namah shivaya' over and over again, but I was somehow able to play with the syllables and pronounce it in a different way than I normally say it-- but I knew it was still the same thing I was saying. Was really interesting.

It was told to me that someone who is able to incorporate this mantra into unconscious thought, to continually repeat the mantra without conscious effort-- then that alone is enough, the benefits will be greater than a life time of meditation, yoga, and ascetic practices.


om shanti shanti om shanti shanti om. I don't know if it is placebo effect or mind power or mantra power, but this mantra is awesome to calm me down whenever I need to. Shanti is a powerful word alone, a good one to ponder its meaning.


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Re: Namaste [Re: Platinum]
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Namaste :grin:


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Re: Namaste [Re: yogabunny]
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I've heard that 'householders' remove the Om part from the mantra.

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Re: Namaste [Re: shivas.wisdom]
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shivas.wisdom said:
yogabunny said:
i love humming/chanting softly om namah sivaya while cooking or doing stuff around my house.

:peace:


I do similar. When I am outside walking or anywhere I won't look crazy muttering to myself, I'll repeat it over and over.

My most recent DMT was very interesting, because I ended up repeating 'aum namah shivaya' over and over again, but I was somehow able to play with the syllables and pronounce it in a different way than I normally say it-- but I knew it was still the same thing I was saying. Was really interesting.

It was told to me that someone who is able to incorporate this mantra into unconscious thought, to continually repeat the mantra without conscious effort-- then that alone is enough, the benefits will be greater than a life time of meditation, yoga, and ascetic practices.


om shanti shanti om shanti shanti om. I don't know if it is placebo effect or mind power or mantra power, but this mantra is awesome to calm me down whenever I need to. Shanti is a powerful word alone, a good one to ponder its meaning.



I wonder if that person is a Siddha yogi?  That's their universal mantra.

I like it for chanting, though when I have tried to use it as a mantra for meditation I've found it sort of clumsy.


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Re: Namaste [Re: yogabunny]
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"Namaste, motherfucker!!!" -- overheard at a festival I was at


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Re: Namaste [Re: Middleman]
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Middleman:

really?  why?  that just doesn't feel right in my mouth.

also, i don't really know if i am a "householder".  i work from home a lot, and i cook a lot, but im not like, a housewife or something :tongue2:


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Re: Namaste [Re: yogabunny]
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Metta :japsmile:


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“Strengthened by contemplation and study,
I will not fear my passions like a coward.
My body I will give to pleasures,
to diversions that I’ve dreamed of,
to the most daring erotic desires,
to the lustful impulses of my blood, without
any fear at all, for whenever I will—
and I will have the will, strengthened
as I’ll be with contemplation and study—
at the crucial moments I’ll recover
my spirit as was before: ascetic.”

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Re: Namaste [Re: Lion]
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Lion said:
Metta :japsmile:



may you be happy, joyful, and live with ease.  :peace:


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Re: Namaste [Re: yogabunny]
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yogabunny said:
Middleman:

really?  why?  that just doesn't feel right in my mouth.

also, i don't really know if i am a "householder".  i work from home a lot, and i cook a lot, but im not like, a housewife or something :tongue2:


I don't know, I guess the Om part takes one out of the world and just chanting the name of Shiva integrates the bodies into the world.
Apparently, Na Ma Shi Va Ya represent the physical, emotional, intellectual, causal, and essential bodies respectively.

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Re: Namaste [Re: Silversoul]
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Silversoul said:
"Namaste, motherfucker!!!" -- overheard at a festival I was at


:rofl:

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Re: Namaste [Re: Silversoul]
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yogabunny said:
I wonder if that person is a Siddha yogi?  That's their universal mantra.

I like it for chanting, though when I have tried to use it as a mantra for meditation I've found it sort of clumsy.


It's very possible. It was a shaivite sadhu who told me, but it seems that Siddha yogi is based heavily off of shaivism. Most sadhus I talked with would constantly stress the fact of this mantra being the most powerful mantra, even mindlessly uttering the syllables is enough for benefits.

I know what you mean about the meditation, and it feeling clumsy. It doesn't seem to roll off the tongue like other mantras. The more I say it though, the better it rolls of my tongue. It's the only mantra I use often, I think the more you say it the easier it will roll off the tongue.

Like when you see those old hardcore monks zooming through 'om mani padme hum', no matter what other actions they are doing.



Silversoul said:
"Namaste, motherfucker!!!" -- overheard at a festival I was at


East meets west...  mother fucker.


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Re: Namaste [Re: Middleman]
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Middleman said:
Silversoul said:
"Namaste, motherfucker!!!" -- overheard at a festival I was at


:rofl:


:lol:


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