What my Name Means...???

K.I. Naga Saravana Perumal.

K for Kayambu Servai (My Grand Pa)
I for Ilaya Perumal (My Dad)

Leave alone the expansion for "K" & "I" which I had to do for applying passport. Many say this one to be the longest they have heard of. But, I don't claim this to be the longest name in the world. But it is really a unique one.

At the earlier stages of my life I was wondering why my parents had kept such a long name for me. I used to hate that because everyone called me by different name. Some "Naga" some "Saravana" and few called me "Perumalu"(Slang used in my Native).Not to mention the combinations of these that cropped up then and there. Gradually it settled and everyone started calling me "NAGA".I liked this one as it was short and sweet. Now I just thank my parents for having christened me with this name. People identify me easily with this Unique Name. There had been many instances wherein people have identified me just with this name. I got to be really thankful to my parents for that matter.

Well the meaning of my name is quite complicated one. I myself had to wait for a long time to know that. I guess my Dad had told me that when I was around 9 years old.

Naga = For Snake God
Saravana = For Lord Muruga
Perumal = My Dads Last Name

I am the sixth and final child in my family. I can hear people saying why the hell is this? Among many even my parents had been one of the victims who were longing for a Male child for a long time. After all this was common in villages those days and the saddest truth is that it is still prevalent in quite a few rural areas down south.

Astrology, I would call this to be yet another social evil though I believed in it till 12th standard. And it is still common even among the so called highly Cultured and Educated society. This led my parents to worship the Snake god for a male child. So when I came into the world I was given the name "NAGA".

My father being a great devotee of Lord MURUGA he gave the name "SARAVANA" (one of the names for Murugan) which followed Naga. Then last one was just taken from my Dad's name. It was our "Kula Deivam" as we call it in south. Each and every family will have their own Kula Deivam and ours is Lord Perumal in Alagar Kovil near Madurai. And so the name "PERUMAL" got added to mine and thus the Name

" NAGA SARAVANA PERUMAL".Quite interesting story right.


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" True Love...! ? "

"Love"

This is one word which is yet to have a perfect meaning and many would agree with me on this. What one feels to be love might not be love for someone else. Great legends have given different definitions for the word Love. I call these as their perception rather than a definition.

According to the great English poet and dramatist Shakespeare
"Love has no reasons and if it has one then it is not love”. This sounds absurd to many of the younger generation who take all the time in the world to understand someone and then decide to spend their entire life with them. So each one in the world has their own perception of love and I myself have one such perception which I believe to be right, from my experiences in life.

I thought I was in love with a girl in my 9th standard. It was just because she was beautiful. It happens at that point of life for anyone in life. Again I thought I was in love with yet another girl. This time it was because she was being friendly with me. How cheap and mean .Isn’t it? Well it may be, but that was the fact. I was still learning. May be I was slow in learning what Love is all about. Then in college I saw a girl, I liked her very much without much reasons, In fact for no reasons at all. This time I just told my friends that I like her a lot and nothing more than that. Many of my friends kept telling me that I was in love with her. To be honest I admired her to the core but didn't adore her at any point of time. One whole year has passed by and now I still think of her at least once in an hour if not a minute. May be that's love as many of my friends say but I don't think so.


According to me,

“You see someone and feel that you can be happy if she is with you for the rest of your life. Many feel this to be Love. I have felt this quite a few times. But,

You see someone and feel that you can't survive a single minute of your life if she is not with you. Then that’s “True Love ". This is what I believe. I have never felt this way in my life. So I am yet to realize True Love according to my perception.

Many might disagree with my perception. Well they are most welcomed to fill in their comments.

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