--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> bob_brigante wrote:
> > > Doesn't "Bal" mean "boy" - Bal Brahmachari means life celibate, 
> > > or so I understood.
> > >
> You are mistaken, Bob - according to the Cologne Digital Sanskrit
> Lexicon, the Sanskrit term 'bal' is an interjection imitating the
> sound of a falling body, as in 'falling at the feet of the master'.
> Many Sanskrit terms are derived from common household sounds. For
> example, the bija mantra 'phat', heard at every puja, is derived from
> the crack-sound made by a two-stroked wheeled vehicle, the motor
> rickshaw, found all over downtown Delhi.
>

Regardless, my recollection isthat he was originally called balraj 
brahmachari.






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