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Namah                                                     Reflections





        the Words, and in their coming into being...
        This too, a “living power of the incarnate Word
        (2)”?

        How else could the Words be “living” and
        healing?

        Words Heal

        True, Words do not, and perhaps cannot,  aspire, call and cry, pray and even demand,
        express and describe everything. In fact,  even unbeknownst to the surface consciousness,
        often, if not always, in trying to explain and  for answers, for Words explicitly... and then,
        describe, we fall into the trap of mentalising  when they come, “A moment sees (6)...” ,
        that which is above and beyond the mental   “And the hushed heart hears the unuttered
        domain. There is thus distortion and falsity,  Word (7).” All in the being is calmed, all is
        much dilution and adulteration by the mind  filled with a thrill that stills as well, all feels
        and its representative, the brain...     healed, moved to tears, all is clear... the heart
                                                 overflows with gratitude... and many more
        “A little spoilt by the receiver mind    are the hues of emotion welling up from the
        Or mixed with the manufacture of his brain  heart...
        (3);”                                    Momentary, maybe, but undeniable, un-
                                                 mistakable...
        The mind churns… and turns and returns...
        interfering and interrupting, editing and  Such has it been with Namaskar.
        correcting, in a constant buzz, in trying to
        reach and claim that it has, and has found the  Namaskar: What It Was
        Truth. While, “Silence is all, say the sages (4).”
                                                 It is said that one reads (and receives) that
        And yet and therefore, from this Silence arises  which one is meant to, when one is meant
        all... as the Truth is not Truth if it is partial,  to… this ‘meant to’ meaning one’s readiness,
        and thus, has room for Words too!        the readiness perhaps of the individual
                                                 consciousness. Though, whether there is and
        “The silence of the Ineffable is a truth of divine  can be anything for the individual consciousness
        being, but the Word which proceeds from that  alone, in isolation, is questionable.
        silence is also a truth, and it is this Word which
        has to be given a body in the conscious form  Such was a moment perhaps when I got to
        of the nature (5).”                      read (maybe years ago) this explanation for
                                                 Namaskar: When one folds one’s hands and
        The Words thus, too, are with a Purpose and  joins the palms, on meeting someone, in a
        hence, are on a Mission!                 Namaskar or Namaste, it is an acknowledgment
                                                 of the Divinity in that being by the Divinity
        No wonder then, we seek and yearn, strive and  in oneself.


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