JOIN USToday we have a beautiful way of greeting each other in India. We fold our hands and say "Namaste" which means "I bow down to the divine in you." This traditional greeting reminds us that our association is not just physical or mental, but is a loving and reverent relationship between our divine so-uls. Unfortunately, many of us have discarded this conventional greeting or use it mechanically without reverence. Reverence for each other brings deep humility. Humility lubric-ates our relationships and makes them harmonious. Most of the relationship problems occur due to ego clashes and lack of humility.
How do we increase our humility? The reverence we give each other increases our humility. Reverence means "Pujya Manobhav". How do we instill this reverence in ourselves? For this we should give our life a sense of value - the value of pricelessness and preciousness. Our soul after many births in various bodies, has now taken a human body i.e. a human birth. By this constant awareness we will simply not waste our precious thoughts by thinking negatively or unnecessarily waste our will power and understanding capabilities.
This eliminates the worldly traits of comparison, competition, physical inertia and our tendency to yield to cravings and temptations. It also begins to balance our emotions by elevating them from base levels to human and from human levels to divine. The moment our emotions are refined, the inherent power of our soul emerges and becomes evident to us. We start emoting with reverence towards others as we realise they are also filled with divine dignity. When our reverence for others increases, our soul which is God's representative blossoms and his presence within makes us feel dignified. This feeling or vinaya bhavana is transmitted to everyone we meet and is reflected in them as well.
Dwelling constantly on this transactional ego establishes the permanent ego of "I and mine" which gradually erases our true divine identity and the qualities of reverence, humility and renunciation in us. In Chapter 12, Verse 13 of the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna says, "The one who is not envious, but is a kind friend to all living beings, who does not think of himself as the proprietor, who is free from false ego … is very dear to Me." So let us recognise divinity in ourselves by removing the ego and cultivate reverence, humility and renunciation, permanently establishing the qualities of our soul and spread this to the lives of millions in this world for peace and happiness.