Change Your Name Change Your Fate

By Dr. Bhojraj Dwivedi

Name is like the ornament of a person. The personality goes haywire if the ornamentation is not proper. Sometime back, people had started adopting bizarre and meaningless names. But, now with the spread of education, people have begun to show interest in good and meaningful names. Complying with this angle, the book has incorporated a collection of attractive and charming names. The amazing aspect of this book is that it prepares you for self-assessment of your name on the touchstone of Astrology so that you can evaluate your name yourself- whether it is favoring your luck or not.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Diamond Books
• Release date: Jun 3, 2022
• ISBN: 9789350830369

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Chapter

ONE

What Is In The Name?

The famous playwright of western world William Shakespeare has written - What is in a name? A rose by any other name will smell as sweet. Logically, it may sound correct but it is far from the fact.

Once Lord Vishnu and Lord Mahadev, the Lord of lords, were the object of similar discussion. The scholars have said:

किं वासना तत्र विचारणीयम्

वास: प्रधानं खलु योग्यताया: ।

पीताम्बरं वीक्ष्य ददौ स्वकन्यां,

चर्माम्बरं वीक्ष्य विषं समुद्र: ॥

‘What is the use of adorning oneself with good clothes and ornaments? The main thing is virtue. A man will be honoured for his virtues and abilities. The ability is of paramount importance, neither the presentation nor ornamentation.’

There is a different school of thought which says that ability is important but presentation, clothes and ornamentation are also important. It is seen that presentation often wins where ability fails. The proof was amply demonstrated when Samudra offered his daughter Lakshmi to the suave Lord Vishnu draped in yellow ensemble and embellished adorably. But the same Samudra offered poison to Lord Mahadev, the Lord of lords, seeing his dreadful appearance, body smeared with ashes from the funeral pyre. Ironically, the donor being the same that is Samudra and both the takers being of the same calibre, the reward for the two was grossly different just on account of appearance, clothes, ornamentation, and presentation.

How does a name matter? It is also a kind of ornamentation for every human being. Improper ornamentation would warp the personality. Therefore, Indian sages have done a deep study on names. Such intense study is hardly witnessed anywhere else in the world. The Indian tradition of ‘Namkaran Sanskar’ is a ritual that enhances the innate qualities of a man and fills him with a new consciousness, a new light, and thus takes him on a new voyage of auspicious changes.

Hindu Sanatan dharma acknowledges the elaborate plan associated with Namkaran as an important aspect of ancient tradition and culture. A similar tradition (Sanskar) prevails in the Sikh community where one is named according to the guidance of ‘Shri Guru Granth Saheb

Names entail a history behind it and each name has its distinct effect. My ritualistic, Vedic family has performed Namkaran Sanskar for thousands of people for the last nine generations. We enjoy personal relations with thousands of families even today. We have done deep study of names and have found that all the women named as ‘Shanti’ do not live in peace after marriage. Women whose names begin with letter ‘S’ were seldom found happy after marriage. She may be Sati, Sita, Savitri, Shakuntala, or Sonia. Sita, in spite of being wife of the omnipotent Maryada Purshottam Lord Ram, had to face such difficulties as temporary separation from her husband, abduction by Ravana, and test by fire (Agni-Pariksha). Sati Savitri had lost her husband within a month of their marriage. King Dushyanta turned amnestic towards the pregnant Shakuntala. Sonia Gandhi became widow at a young age. The letter ‘S’ attracts shadow of Saturn (Shani) in such a way that it spoils the married life of a woman. All the girls named Indira would be fearless and outspoken. You may try these tips and discover the miracle. You would acknowledge a new fact and to highlight it is the exact aim of this book.

Take the letter ‘A’ for example. ‘A’ always leads. ‘A’ means excellent, first class, and victor)’. Ace is the strongest, card in the pack of 52. Be it any field, people with their names beginning with the letter ‘A’ are unparalleled and extraordinary; take the example of Emperor Ashoka, Akbar, Amitabh Bachchan, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Abhimanyu or Arjun. The history has not seen another emperor like Ashoka. Among the Muslim kings, there has been none other as intelligent and famous as Akbar. Among the horde of film stars, Amitabh Bachchan enjoys a unique status. There is no dearth of leaders and orators in Bhartiya Janata Party but Atal Bihari Vajpayee surpasses them all. Another example of the name beginning with letter ‘A’ is Ashok Gahlot (former Union Textile Minister), my friend and a great well-wisher of Jodhpur, who has no parallel. There has never been an archer like Arjun. History has witnessed numerous warriors but none as brave as a warrior as Abhimanyu. All these facts cannot be dismissed as mere coincidence or miracle. As we would fathom the power hidden in names, we would experience the charisma without much effort. Our heart fills with love as soon as some names are heard and, contrary to it, utterance of some names raises disgust in our heart. Why is it so? The book aims at analysing this question in detail.

The extent of impression that names leave on humanity can be judged from the fact that names of those who by their misdeeds have earned a bad name find no takers in the posterity. That is why post-Mahabharat no one has ever named his son after Duryodhan, Duhshasan, Ravana or Kansa. Looking beyond the geographical boundaries of India, no one has ever adopted the name of Genghis Khan, Hitler, Mussolini, Halaku, or Aurangzeb. This proves that a name does not only affect a family, a generation, a caste, or a country but influences perennially the entire mankind.

We notice a strange phenomenon of distorting names in Sanatan Dharma. Parents, who procreate with difficulty — after worshipping gods and goddesses—award their progenies with distorted names. Some swear by God to beg in order to feed or clothe their child for five years as mark of obligation to award them a child. A belief prevails among a section of the followers of Hindu religion that parents bereaved of their children within eight years of their birth pledge not to feed or clothe the next child for eight years. Progenies having such background are often named as Muft, Muftiyon, Focutiyon, Walia, Petu, Petia, Ghisiyan, Ghasita, Mikia, Mika, Makku, Lunia, Nauki etc. In other words, it can be said that there had come a period when waiped and meaningless names had an overwhelming presence. The main reason for this can be attributed to the lack of education and ignorance about the importance of names.

Sindhi community had a tradition of naming their children after vegetables such as Mirchumal, Aloomal, Bhasarmal (onion), Baiganmal, Jamboomal, Tindamal, Torumal etc. But there was a reason behind it. In order to have a son with the blessings of Shivji, some would swear to sacrifice eating brinjal and some would sacrifice eating potato. But before that they would donate five or ten kilogram of brinjal or potato. When they would have a son by the grace of God, they would name him Baiganmal, Aloomal, Torumal, Mirchumal, or Bhasarmal. Later the brunt of such names is borne by the poor child when he grows up. But people have developed interest in the well-meaning names after propagation of education. The present book introduces you to thousands of modern, decent, and meaningful names.

There is a latest development. People have become inclined towards astrology, forgoing the impediments of castes and colour. As a result, thousands of books on Astrology have been published. There is hardly a newspaper published in India or abroad without a column on Astrology. During my foreign tour, two newspapers at Bangkok, named ‘Dineshan’ and ‘Bangkok Post’ came to my notice, where forecast for men and women were published separately covering two full pages. To adopt a name on the basis of date of birth, birth sign, and birth star has now become a vogue. But the difficulty is the paucity of adequate names beginning with certain auspicious letters. This book amply addresses this issue.

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Chapter

TWO

Secret of The Letters That Make Names

The first letter of a name houses the whole personality of a man. This is an age-old astrological method practised in India to forecast after ascertaining Sign (Rashi) with the help of the first letter of the name. Western scholars also have acknowledged the importance of the letters of a name. Characteristics of a stranger can be found through the help of the first letter of his name.

Name of a person has left a strong imprint in the Indian Vangmaya (literature). Sages like Vashishtha, Parashar, Gautam, Varah Mihir, Shankaracharya have their descendence by their name even now. Similarly, in the series of kings, Indra, Vikramaditya, Chandragupta etc. have been so popular that their inheritors also were known by the same names and thus causing great confusion to historians to ascertain the actual period of one king from another.

Edward, Elizabeth. Henry, Louis, George and Pope were the names that became so popular in the western world that their series from first, second, third, fourth, and tenth to 108 came into practice. There is no dearth of names in the world but the eastern and western worlds have different perspectives regarding names. Here we would study the importance and secret of English alphabets only.

One breakthrough says that people with names followed by ‘Raj’ are smug and their own masters. They despise dependence. Given an opportunity, they live life king size. Their next move remains inconspicuous even to their closest ones like their wife and son. Sukhraj, Lekhraj, Bhojraj, Pukhraj, Harakraj, Meghraj, Karanraj, Devraj, Deshraj, Dhanraj, Dharamraj, Natraj, Premraj, Vanraj, Rishiraj, Hemraj are some of the names which, if studied closely, would reveal their nature as described above.

Eleven Golden Rules To Follow Before Adopting A Name

Names at best should be adopted as per one’s caste, class, and character. Do not adopt a name that is distorted or does not match with your caste because it would disturb your identity. For example, if you are born in a Kshatriya family and you have to name yourself beginning with letters ‘Pr’, in that case, you should adopt such names as Pradyumn Singh, Prithvi Singh etc. But if you adopt such names as Prempal Sharma or Pramod Shankar, you would distort your genetic identity. Names like Prempal Sharma or Pramod Shankar go well with the Brahmin class. Further, a name as Pramodmal is suitable to Vaishya (business) class. Kshatriya names should exude power such as Tej Singh, Brahmin names should be auspicious as Shiv Sharma, Vaishya names should imbibe money such as Dhanwardhan, Dhanraj and Shudra names should suggest service such as Ramdas, Devdas etc. Also the surname should be carefully chosen.

Name should be adopted, as much as possible, on the basis of’Birth Star’ and its ‘Cycle’. If the specific cycle does not suggest the appropriate name and if all the four cycles of the stars do not offer a name of choice, the name could be adopted out of any of the letters corresponding to the particular Rashi. But. under no circumstance, cross the limit of Rashi. Thousands of worried people visit me who have two different names — one, the birth name used in home and close circles and the other socially known name. Their query is, which Rashi should they rely on? I have added an entire chapter in this book addressing to this problem so that your child does not suffer due to the conflict of two- three Rashi in his life. Therefore, you should adopt a proper name for your child based on correct Rashi so that the child could grow according to the blessings of his stars.

Effort should be made to adopt a name based on that of great men, gods and goddesses and inspiring themes.

The name of the child may be adopted on the basis of his features, characteristics, and nature.

No two children should have the same name in a family.

There are some names which are adopted by male as well as female such as Madhu, Kamal, Komal, Daya, Suman etc. While choosing such a name, the gender should be clarified in the second part of the name. For example Madhu Dev, Madhu Kumari, Komal Kant, Komal Kumari. Daya Shankar, Dayawanti, Suman Prasad, Suman Kumari, Gulab Singh, Gulab Kaur etc.

Keep in mind that the surname of your favourite name integrates you to your religion, caste, ancestor, generation, and business. Hence the surname following the name should be chosen carefully.

Save from such names which belong to bad characters and are unpleasant to ears. Select a name that is pleasant to ears.

The name should be small as far as possible. It may either be your name or that of your factory, the small names gain popularity faster than long names. People find it difficult to utter or write long names.

Save from the Western effect - Influenced by the Western culture, people have begun to abbreviate their names which is wrong and hampers your personality. For example - Chandra Prakash becomes ‘C. P.’ and Prem Kumar becomes ‘P. K.’. Father in English is pronounced as dead (Dad) and the mother is called Mummy which means preserved corpse. The meaning, thereby, is that the ghost of Western culture has turned the living parents into a dead species. Dad (phonetically ‘dead’) is short form of Daddy. Both these words are excessively used in common parlance. We have also adopted the word Papa for Father (Pita). Mother-Father has now become Mummy-Daddy or Mummy-Papa. Pita means progenitor and Pitaji and Pitashri are respectable words but ‘Papa’ is meaningless. This would be a warped derivative of Papi (the sinner). Therefore be safe from meaningless words.

Another distortion of westernisation is that bathroom or latrine can be made anywhere in a house. If a child pees at some place, it is called bathroom and if he excretes at some place, it becomes latrine. If the child spoils his diaper, the diaper becomes bathroom and latrine.

The third goof up of westernisation is that Tau, Chacha, Phoofa, Mama, and Mausa all are called uncle and Tai, Chachi, Bua, and Mausi all are called aunt. Father’s acquaintances are also uncle and mother’s female friends are also called aunt. This can be jeered upon as the marvel of oneness in many. Again the ghost of westernisation has confused all the relations. Bahnoi and Saley saheb both are called brother-in-law. Maasi and Saasu both are termed as mother-in-law.