{"id":94,"date":"2022-06-12T06:38:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T06:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimediaautor.de\/?p=94"},"modified":"2025-08-23T19:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:16:17","slug":"die-bedeutung-von-namaste-das-licht-in-dir-und-mir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/die-bedeutung-von-namaste-das-licht-in-dir-und-mir\/","title":{"rendered":"Namaste - The light in me greets the light in you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Europe, we have an idea of enlightenment as something where an individual recognizes that he or she is living under externally imposed constraints. It is then a matter of overcoming these constraints and placing oneself under a greater law. A light comes on and shines into all the dark corners in order to question what has not yet been reflected and scrutinized. This movement of thought is described with the metaphor of light as a torch. The light of enlightenment shines centrally into all corners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, consciousness is interactive. It only exists in the <a href=\"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/begegnung\/\">Interaction <\/a>with a different consciousness. A newborn needs the care of the mother or a surrogate community. Language is only learned through communication. Empathy is only possible in a community. Sometimes Namaste is translated as \"The light in me greets the light in you\". This greeting reminds us every day that we only exist in community. The metaphor of the torch has a completely different meaning here. The light is within us, not an external tool. The light is everywhere and not a central perspective. Light is an energy that radiates within everyone. This inner light that exists everywhere is consciousness.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Europa haben wir eine Vorstellung von Aufkl\u00e4rung als etwas, wo ein einzelner Mensch erkennt, dass er oder sie in fremdbestimmten Zw\u00e4ngen lebt. Es gilt dann, diese Zw\u00e4nge zu \u00fcberwinden und sich selbst unter ein gr\u00f6\u00dferes Gesetz zu stellen. Ein Licht geht auf und strahlt in alle dunklen Ecken, um so das, was noch nicht [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[262,178,177,261,135,378],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bewusstsein","category-kultur","tag-andere","tag-aufklaerung","tag-licht","tag-metapher","tag-selbst","tag-sprache"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5496,"href":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/5496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}