{"id":8,"date":"2009-03-06T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T23:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/?p=3"},"modified":"2009-03-06T18:00:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T23:00:31","slug":"saying-hello-in-hindi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/saying-hello-in-hindi\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying Hello in Hindi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Namaste (<strong>\u0928\u092e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u0947<\/strong>)!<\/p>\n<p>Remember how I promised that I would go over Hindi greetings? Well today I&#8217;m going to take a break from the Hindi alphabet and teach you several Hindi greetings. Ideally this post should have probably been the first lesson on Hindi. Regardless of whether you can read or write Hindi, I think that knowing Hindi greetings will be useful in your day-to-day interactions with Hindi speaking people.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start with the basic and most common known Hindi greeting, Namaste (<strong>\u0928\u092e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u0947<\/strong>). This greeting is known even to non-Hindi speakers and you can frequently hear it being used in a typical American yoga class. That being said, the namaste (<strong>\u0928\u092e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u0947<\/strong>) in a yoga class differs slightly in meaning than perhaps a namaste (<strong>\u0928\u092e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u0947<\/strong>)\u00a0in a conversational setting. I&#8217;ll get to that in more detail later. First, let&#8217;s cover the Namaste (<strong>\u0928\u092e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u0947<\/strong>) used to mean hello in Hindi.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve said in a previous post, namaste (<strong>\u0928\u092e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u0947<\/strong>) literally means, &#8220;I bow to you,&#8221; and is a way for Hindi speakers to greet each other. When Indian people greet each other with namaste (<strong>\u0928\u092e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u0947<\/strong>), the greeting is usually accompanied by a gesture that foreigners might find puzzling. The gesture involves two hands pressed together palm-by-palm in front one&#8217;s chest, with a slight nod of the head. The nod of the head and the pressed hands are carried out simultaneously with the greeting namaste (<strong>\u0928\u092e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u0947<\/strong>). The cool thing about this gesture is that you can just nod your head and press your hands together without the namaste (<strong>\u0928\u092e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u0947<\/strong>) greeting. It&#8217;s almost like sign language where you can convey a simple greeting without exchanging any words.<\/p>\n<p>When you use namaste (<strong>\u0928\u092e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u0947<\/strong>) in a yoga setting, it means something quite different from &#8220;hello&#8221;. It&#8217;s hard to translate into English, but it can mean something like, &#8220;The light within me honors the light within you&#8221; or &#8220;That which is of the divine in me greets that which is of the divine in you&#8221;. It&#8217;s kind of\u00a0amazing how one little word like namaste (<strong>\u0928\u092e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u0947<\/strong>) can\u00a0imply a\u00a0long wordy phrase in English.<\/p>\n<p>Now if I want to say goodbye in Hindi, all I have to do is press my palms together without verbalizing the namaste (<strong>\u0928\u092e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u0947<\/strong>). Here&#8217;s how I will exit this post, namaste (<strong>\u0928\u092e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u0947<\/strong>) (wordless gesture).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namaste (\u0928\u092e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u0947)! Remember how I promised that I would go over Hindi greetings? Well today I&#8217;m going to take a break from the Hindi alphabet and teach you several Hindi greetings. Ideally this post should have probably been the first lesson on Hindi. 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