| Over the past couple of months, DEJAVU has been pretty busy and
keeping up has been, well, difficult. IE sorry for the delay.
Anyway, Swami Muktananda, as a name, may be broken into three parts:
1. Swami: a title given to a type of monk. This is not unlike
the title of "Brother" or "Friar" given to monks in other
orders.
2. Mukta/Mukti: Means "freedom"
3. ananda: This is a postfix on most swamis' names. It means
"the bliss of".
So, Muktananda means "The bliss of freedom". His master's name,
Nityananda, (not a swami, he didn't have to :-) means "The bliss
of the infinite".
BTW: Swami Muktananda "left his body" Oct 2, 1982 so he is no longer
"a living master" as such.
"TANANDA" does sort of just roll off the tongue, doesn't it? Who
knows? Maybe you're looking for something.
Tom
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Mmm...I do know that _ananda_ is bliss, as in the song: "Ananda
is the ocean." I also know that Muktananda isn't using a body these
days...I refer to him as a living master because, well, he's "alive."
You know what I mean. I have a thread from his blanket which I sometimes
use in meditation.
I've had a couple of serious "jolts" since the Tananda incident.
I strongly believe that a new life will start for me on the 17th
at sunrise, and that my name will be Tananda. I certainly seems
to be a name that has been given to me (rather forcefully, at that!)
I told some of my friends about the circumstances, and they agreed
that I was being told that I was now Tananda (although they threatened
to nickname me "Mook").
BTW, I finished the book, one of Robert Asprin's MYTH series, and
realized that I had run into Tananda the character about three years
ago in the first book of the series. (Tananda is a trollop, a female
troll.)
Thanks for your input.
Perry
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