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I honor the Divinity within you that is ...

I honor the Divinity within you that is also within me!

Apr 28, 2024

This is what the Sanskrit word Namaste means. This is what Luntiang Aghama's Divinity mean. That on each being that exist and live has a Sacred Spark of Divinity. It is just, when a Filipino works abroad and when they see fellow Filipino living or working in that foreign land, they were so happy to call them as Kabayan which means fellow Filipino. Though Namaste is a Sanskrit word, we do not have a similar one word that may describe that I honor the Divinity within you that is also within me. In the religion of Wicca they may have an equivalent phrase for Namaste and that is Blessed Be! Which is a simple Phrase that has a powerful effect for both the sender or the one who speak and to its receiver or the one who hears the phrase.

In terms of saying Blessed Be to others and to the act of Blessing or giving. A person could not bless or give if you do not have something to give. So in saying Blessed Be it means that you who speak the phrase are already Blessed and you share your blessings to others by uttering loudly the phrase of Blessed be. For us in Luntiang Aghama, we say Pagasatin instead of Blessed Be as this is our Filipino word for the Phrase.

Usually, the word Pagasatin is an Ilocano Word which i learned when i was teaching Hilot at Cervantes Ilocus Sur.

I ask my student to teach me some Ilocano words and specifically how to say Blessed be in their Language. Though they presented me Bendisyunan ka amo which is Blessed Be but the word Bendisyon is someone spanish. So, I ask them to dig deeper and they found the word Pagasatin which is more near to Kankanaey language which means Blessings.

As I heard the word PagAsatin it sounds to me a conjoined word, the first is PagAsa which means Hope and Atin in English is Us. So every time we say the word Pagasatin, we are invoking Blessing for us so as sending blessing to those who will hear the word.

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