Hi, everyone, I am glad to find this site, and you. I am enjoying reading your entries.
I have practiced yoga for years and have made it the basis of my life work. I am still learning - this website is a new way to experience yoga ! I like it.
Hi Janet! Welcome to the forum!
Namaste & Welcome Janet !
On a friendly note…a minor correction to the topic title…
It should be “Om Namah Shivaya”
“Shiv” or “Shivaah:” means good / auspicious
"Shav" means corpse or dead
“Shiv” is very much auspicious (shubh) and a symbol of eternal life, while the second is inauspicious (ashubh) for it heralds decay and decomposition.
Hari OM !
Wow !
Thank you for the information !
It’s interesting, I have been recently looking at a sanskrit-english website (actually a couple of them) and got a bit of a frame of reference for the source of your comment. I found many words describing variations on one thing, a lot of textures and subtleties, in Sanskrit.
“Shavaya” sounds like how I say and sing it: "shuh-veye-uh"
but evidently I mean “Shivaya.”
It’s kind of like trying to say to someone in their language “have a nice day” and because you mispronounce it, you say: “your mother is a bulldog!”
OOOPS
Hello Janet and welcome to the forum!