Changing Your Name?

By Anupam V Kapil

A long time back, people be lieved that a name mystically encoded the essential character and personality of a person. Like your birth chart, the name always remains in the background coloring your entire life. No matter how many times you change your name one will always feel the vibrational influences of the name on the birth certificate. Religion and tradition play an important role in the way children are named. Catholics favors the names of saints or biblical names which imply moral virtues and religious worthiness. Muslim names are usually derived from those of the Prophet or the immediate family and the name of Prophet Mohammed with its estimated 500 variations is considered the most popular name in the world.

A lot of Hindu names are combination names, e.g. Ramakrishna or Radheshyam and in some cases conjoining two names produces an entirely new deity. The Vedic rishis believed that a person’s name deter-mined his/her character, temper, morals and profession too.

Your initials say a lot about you. It is important to have a good middle name too as it gives an option to decide whether or not to use the first name. The names should also sound pleasing when spoken with the surname. Since one is normally referred almost exclusively by the first name, a good deal of though should be given to its selection.

— Movies, television, literature and sports have a tremendous effect on chow people name their children and TV has also helped create trends in names, especially soap operas where characters have unusual names. of One must be careful not to ape this. y So what’s the point of names mean-ding anything, if you don’t actually become what they mean? It’s pretty clear that names have power. But did e you know a name can actually hurt

you? Maybe not like sticks and stones do, but still, names can bruise in other ways. There were studies done in the early 1900s which showed that unusual names could produce maladjusted children and adults.

 1948 study, indicated that your name could make you more likely to get into

or flunk out of Harvard University. Also, a 1974 study showed that rare or unusual names were ac-companied by guilt pangs, meekness and low self-esteem. Another very interesting study had a group of elementary school teachers grade papers by students who were only identified by their first names. The students who got high marks were named Karen, Lisa, David, and Michael all common and popular names. But Elmer, Adele, Bertha, and Hubert fared poorly. Such studies have not been conducted in India so far.

Nowadays, there is a fashion of changing names to bring luck. As we have seen in the past, the initials of your first name indicate certain characteristics. But just having a numerologically correct name is not enough. Your name must also have the right beginning initials which is based on astrology, your moon sign and nakshatra. Which means, you may have a right initial astrologically, but yet it may not total to a numerologically right name. So it is important to align both to get good results. When the name changes are made deliberately, the individual feels very uncomfortable and comes back to his/her original name. Your name should be in harmony with your fate and destiny number.

For the benefit of the readers, I am providing the Vedic Moon initial letters of the name according to the rashi and these should then be corrected with phonetic numerology which shall be explained later

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Anupam V Kpil

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