Having spent time in India and attending daily “services” at a Temple as well as one of my best friends (someone I considered my sister and to her I was her brother), had a PHD and was an American author. Her sole purpose in life was to make Hinduism better understood in the west (aka the USA). She was devoutly Hindu.
Some of your text …
Having spent time in India and attending daily “services” at a Temple as well as one of my best friends (someone I considered my sister and to her I was her brother), had a PHD and was an American author. Her sole purpose in life was to make Hinduism better understood in the west (aka the USA). She was devoutly Hindu.
Some of your text is correct some not. Namaste to Hindus does speak to the spiritual soul of each of us, speaks to that “light” in each of us. While it gets used as a gesture essentially saying hello (much like Jai Sia Ram), it is not simply meant as a gesture of “greetings / hello” to Hindus. It is meant to acknowledge the oneness of all. As another friend stated regarding it’s meaning, “I honor that place in you, where when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us”.
You wrote: “In the Vedas, namaste mostly occurs as a salutation to a divinity.” No, not to “a divinity/ a god”. It is a salutation to the divinity in each of us, to the divine nature of all.
Having spent time in India and attending daily “services” at a Temple as well as one of my best friends (someone I considered my sister and to her I was her brother), had a PHD and was an American author. Her sole purpose in life was to make Hinduism better understood in the west (aka the USA). She was devoutly Hindu.
Some of your text is correct some not. Namaste to Hindus does speak to the spiritual soul of each of us, speaks to that “light” in each of us. While it gets used as a gesture essentially saying hello (much like Jai Sia Ram), it is not simply meant as a gesture of “greetings / hello” to Hindus. It is meant to acknowledge the oneness of all. As another friend stated regarding it’s meaning, “I honor that place in you, where when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us”.
You wrote: “In the Vedas, namaste mostly occurs as a salutation to a divinity.” No, not to “a divinity/ a god”. It is a salutation to the divinity in each of us, to the divine nature of all.