August 22, 2021
Can you imagine why anyone would want to name their boy Sue? Of course, each is more than their name, and it was likely given from the heart by the mother and perhaps father. So in a way, it’s a ‘memory’ to carry beyond time on earth. One ‘David or one Jane’ is very unique from someone else bearing that same name. Our name was given with the intent of meaning, however that doesn’t mean one can’t choose an additional one that may more fit who you see yourself as.
Back a few years ago when I was doing my free speech display on the Venice Boardwalk (in LA), as well as my meditation groups called the LA LetGo, I decided to meet more people by offering them a new name from the Sanskrit (India), and an explanation of its meaning on paper. A few example; 1-Darshan/or Darshana (f) is the name of a God/Goddess in Hindu mythology meaning ‘vision’; 2-Deepak means a lamp shining brightly; 3-Indira means beauty or splendid; 4-Jaya means victory & victorious. I still hear occasionally from ones who still uses use the name. Using a new name, especially with a spiritual meaning, slowly merges one into a new sense of being and identification. We are not who we think we are anyway, and a new name can be a stepping stone to letting go of the attachments to the unwanted past.
We have been taught to hide, not to trust or to be unnecessarily paranoid, that life is naturally negative, etc. These things have been put into the unconscious from childhood. They have become part of our mental DNA, and because of them we go on hiding who we really are. Reality is just the opposite: you are not naturally bad, but naturally good. Nobody really wants to do bad, and if somebody is doing bad it simply means that he has been a victim of circumstances and situations, likely from childhood, so you have been forced to do that. No thief is happy to be a thief and no murderer is happy to be a murderer. They have been forced. In fact they are Victims; they have been compelled by the logic of situations. They have been brought up in such a way that their whole being has been poisoned.
