Tonight I’m reflecting on the meaning of the spiritual name that Swami Kriyananda blessed me with back in 2005.
It had been an exceptionally powerful weekend. For starters we were invited to celebrate our first anniversary at a small dinner with Swamiji and a few of the leaders of the Assisi community — amazing evening!
Then we were informed that Swamiji would be blessing us as ministers and giving us our spiritual names at the same time.
Whoa! Talk about a doozy of a day.
I share this to explain how it came about that — although Swamiji shared several aspects of what the name meant — I was so blissed out that the only part of his explanation that stuck in my mind was “the fortunate one”.
But after close to twenty years of being Bhagavati I’m beginning to think that it was no accident that I couldn’t retain the other information, because “the fortunate one” so perfectly describes my life and I’m very grateful to be reminded of it all the time.
