"I honor the place in you where Spirit lives
I honor the place in you which is
of Love, of Truth,
of Light, of Peace,
when you are in that place in you,
and I am in that place in me,
then we are One."
It is pronounced as"Namastay" with the first two a's as the first a in "America"
and the ay as in "stay", but with the t pronounced soft with the
area just behind the tip of the tongue pressing against the
upper-front teeth with no air passing (as the t in "tamasha").
For Hindu(s), the greeting of choice is Namaste',
the two hands pressed together and held near the heart with the
head gently bowed as one says, "Namaste'". Thus it is both a
spoken greeting and a gesture, a Mantr(a) and a Mudr(a). The
prayerful hand position is a Mudr(a) called Anjali, from the root
Anj, "to adorn, honor, celebrate or anoint." The hands held in
union signify the oneness of an apparently dual cosmos, the
bringing together of spirit and matter, or the self meeting the
Self. It has been said that the right hand represents the higher
nature or that which is divine in us, while the left hand
represents the lower, worldly nature.
