0 a traditional way of greeting someone in which you put the insides of your hands together in front of your face or chest and bend your head forwards
1 said as a greeting while you put the insides of your hands together in front of your face or chest and bend your head forwards
The greeting namaskar is founded on the principle that one salutes the spark of the divine in the other.
Ten yogic postures are assumed in successive flowing movements to complete one namaskar.
He helped in popularizing surya namaskar as a simple physical exercise for all round development of an individual.
The use of surya namaskar for physical exercise is also not modern.
Namaste or namaskar is used as a respectful form of greeting, acknowledging and welcoming a relative, guest or stranger.
He introduced it in schools as a form of education and encouraged even the ordinary man to be physically fit by performing surya namaskar every day.
