One of my friends said the other day- "I believe that if you squeezed everyone hard enough, God will pop out". I think that's a great way to connect to others. In Yoga, we say "Namaste" as a greeting. We bring our hands in prayer position in front of our hearts to symbolize the unity of the right and left sides of the body, and also uniting feeling and intellect. The meaning of the greeting is: That which I hold as the most sacred part of myself (or the God inside of me) recognizes and honors that miraculous, divine (or the God inside you) vast place inside of you.
Taking the time to honor someone else and to really search objectively for the God inside someone else helps to center me. It means being truly in the moment.
Deep, cultivated respect for others (adara kari) and a true interest of being of service (seva) is a great gift that I have been given from my Yoga practice. When that connection is made between another living being and myself, there is that glance of true shimmering consciousness that is my true nature, often veiled by the body-mind-sense complex and my misunderstanding of who i am. I am the Whole, Purnam- the all expansive ocean, my physical form is temporary and limited, but I am not. True nature is limitless, unhindered by time and space. Om Shanti. Peace, perfect peace.
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