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Recieved: 2003/05/17 21:40
Subject: [K-list] A Rose By Any Other Name Would Smell As Sweet
From: Bhavin Desai
On 2003/05/17 21:40, Bhavin Desai posted thus to the K-list:
Mystress wrote:
> Why Bhava instead of Bhavin?
> In German, "in" at the end of the word makes it feminine... but
> neither of us speak much German. To me, Bhava has a feeling of freedom
and
> expansion to it, joyous where Bhavin is closed and contracted.
My teacher Jack used to remind us that "A rose by any other name would
smell as sweet".
The feminine form of my name in India would be Bhavini - a fairly
popular choice. The classical German language has many features in
common with Sanskrit. This is historical - there were ancient
migrations from India to Europe, with large settlements in Germany due
to affinity with the mountains there which reminded them of the
Himalayas. When Swami Ji lectured in Germany, he had a translator from
Hindi to German. On one notable occasion, he quoted a classical
Sanskrit verse which the translator obviously struggled with, but the
people in the audience said "don't worry we understand it directly, but
tell us where you learnt the classical German?" [!!!]
Swami Dev Murti Ji originally had a very long sequence of names. His
Master (I was privileged to meet him once in the Himalayas, he was over
150 years old at that time) abbreviated it all to just Swami (Master)
Dev (Deity/God) Murti (Image/Statue). In the same way Swami Ji changed
"Bhavin..." to just "Bhava Murti", for the Yoga work. I felt very
honoured with this name and internally resolved to live up to the
responsibilities and obligations. Note that the title "Swami" was not
given, so I don't use it and I don't encourage anyone else to use it.
My teachers Jack and John were given the title Swami, but they chose to
just use Jack Murti and John Murti respectively.
A Yogin is a person who practices Yoga. Bhavin is a person who
practices Bhava (pronounced as bhaav). Bhava means
spiritual-mood/inner-feeling/attitude toward a chosen ideal, such as any
of the 33,00,00,000 gods and goddesses.
A very thorough glossary gave Bhava as:
1. status of being.
2. a becoming.
3. a subjective state, one of the secondary subjective becomings of
Nature (states of mind, affections of desire, movements of passion, the
reactions of the senses, the limited and dual play of the reason, the
turns of the feeling and moral sense).
4. the affective nature.
5. general sensation.
6. [one of the sadanga]: the emotion or aesthetic feeling expressed by
the form.
7. [in poetry: feeling, mood, sentiment].
Note also that "Bhavani is [a name of the Goddess]; the Mother; the
Infinite Energy". There is also a state called Bhava Samadhi, which is
"spiritual rapture" or ecstatic absorption of varying length in a
particular spiritual mood toward one's Chosen Ideal which may occur in
waking or conscious dream states.
Bhava Murti
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