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Conference hydra::dejavu

Title:Psychic Phenomena
Notice:Please read note 1.0-1.* before writing
Moderator:JARETH::PAINTER
Created:Wed Jan 22 1986
Last Modified:Tue May 27 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2143
Total number of notes:41773

420.0. "Who's Tananda?" by WAGON::DONHAM (Born again! And again, and again...) Tue Jul 21 1987 13:54

    
    Yesterday I was, well, >indisposed< and thinking about my name,
    and what name I would take if I were to change it. I'm speaking
    of my first name.
    
    Suddenly, TANANDA blurted out of my mouth. I mean, I had control
    over my mouth, but the thought of the word was so strong that I
    said it aloud. I got a very strong feeling of love when I thought
    of the name.
    
    Last night, about 5 hours after this incident, I arrived home and
    found that my book club selections had arrived. Later that evening
    I sat down and began to read...and one of the characters was named
    TANANDA!
    
    I'm familiar with the living master Muktananda, and this may have
    been the basis of my coming up with TANANDA in the first place,
    but what about the name in the book (it's a science/fiction work)?
    Precog? Anyone know what TANANDA means (in any language)?
    
    Perry aka Tananda
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420.1The Bliss of...RAINBO::TBAKERCHICQUITA !!! Fri Aug 14 1987 09:5024
    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
420.2WAGON::DONHAMBorn again! And again, and again...Fri Aug 14 1987 14:5424
    
    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