What is your true name?

If you have not found your true home it is difficult for you to have a true name. Your name should give you the feeling of being at home. Society, family and people around label you and give you a name. Whether you feel at home with that name? Sometimes you are not happy with and thus feel uncomfortable and you don’t feel at home. So the name others give you is not the true name. You should have a true name. Have you discovered your true name?

Birthday is to begin anew. To begin anew is to look deeply and honestly at yourselves to discover your true name - your choices in thinking, speech and action. Discovering your true name is to create a fresh beginning within yourselves and in your relationships with the rest. Celebrate your birthday to clear your mind of different names you own up and keep yourself fresh and growing with your true name. Every birthday is an opportunity to begin anew to discover your true name.

Beginning anew helps you to bring in kindness and compassionate in your speech and actions. When you start to begin anew, you begin to recognize and appreciate all healthy elements within and all around. Recognizing healthy elements in others reflects your own value system – your true name. Along with these values we carry few unhealthy things, such as talking out of our anger or being caught in our mis-perceptions. In this birthday, you resolve to begin anew, so as to ignite yourself to neutralize your unhealthy names.

When you practice to discover your true name, you begin anew everyday by expressing your appreciation to people and things around and apologizing right away when you do or say something that is not true and hence hurts them. Your birthday is the day, you can politely let others know when you have been hurt as well and to heal the hurt you have been creating by expressing your concern and care. The health and happiness of your surrounding depends on the harmony, peace and joy that exist within you as your true name. 

Have you ever tried to discover what is your name, when you don’t hate anyone, including the people who bring in terror in your life? You have no hatred for them. You only have love and compassion for them. You would like to be close to them, so that you can listen deeply to them and help them let go off their misunderstanding, hatred and violence. With what name or label you do this?

The prayer given below will help you to begin anew;
People and things that are not only beautiful but also creative surround me. People are creative in creating happiness and justice for me. All are working according to an order just to bring in joy and uplift me. They are those I want to help. That is my true name!


Discover your true name! Today…

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