Guest guest Report post Posted March 8, 2003 <kalipadma@j...> wrote: > > I am used to seeing <-Ji> as a suffix added to the name of a God or > mortal as a term of respect and affection. Where in India do they use it > as a proper name, unattached to the name of the person being referred to? > (This seems to be the way you are using it.) I am very sorry ji, for my ignorant in the proficiency of the language as it is not my mother tougue.Please except my apology. However in the context of learning to love mother more, I am using the "-Ji-" to show my respect onto the other Children of Kali in this group.Correct me if I am wrong ji, -Ji- basically means Sir. Please except my apology in the grammatical error of the language. Children of Kali Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted March 10, 2003 Namaste Nurcarnationji, There is nothing wrong in using the suffix "ji " as a term of respect without using the person's name together with it. Recently I was in Rishikesh and Varanasi and we did not have problem using it in such a way at both places but mind you we were talking to swamijis and not language teachers...... Furthermore this is not a language class for proper grammatical sentence to be constructed . Because if construction of sentence was our priority than most of the english sentences written here would need apologies as well.Even if construction of sentences was the issue I prefer it to be on the scripture that we are discussing rather than your mail grammar as this would sap most of our precious time on language rather than spritual wisdom. Yes "ji" means "sir" in hindi, in tamil language it would be "thiru" for man and "thirumathi" for ladies, in Malay language it will be "Encik" for man and "Cik" for ladies ,in Vaishvanism it will be prabhu which means "king " and mataji which means "mother" for ladies and in Sanskrit it would be "sriman" which means the revered one for man and "srimathi" for ladies and the list can go on and on......... But it does not matter for this is a spiritual discussion and not language nor grammatical group so do not worry about it and let us continue with our discussion Jai Maa !!! Kali_Ma, "nurcarnation" <nurcarnation> wrote: > <kalipadma@j...> wrote: > > > > I am used to seeing <-Ji> as a suffix added to the name of a God or > > mortal as a term of respect and affection. Where in India do they > use it > > as a proper name, unattached to the name of the person being > referred to? > > (This seems to be the way you are using it.) > > > > > I am very sorry ji, for my ignorant in the proficiency of the > language as it is not my mother tougue.Please except my apology. > > However in the context of learning to love mother more, I am using > the "-Ji-" to show my respect onto the other Children of Kali in this > group.Correct me if I am wrong ji, -Ji- basically means Sir. > > Please except my apology in the grammatical error of the language. > > Children of Kali Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
