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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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