Long time back, I had discovered this skill in me, finding words in names that describes few
qualities or completely about that person e.g. the name of my friend SONU was made to be
Some One of No Use. Then it was a challenge for me to come out with something that
speaks for me in my name. It was nothing less than a challenge to come out with something
like this...Admire Me If You Admit. I mean every bit of it, precisely that's how I feel I am.
People whom I've come across in my life often asked me the meaning of this name AMIYA.
It's indeed a privilege to be born with this name. To most of your surprise, the name has a
small little story associated to it. Believe me or not ...this is a true story..!!!
Before the birth of me and two of my siblings, one fine day, my father instinctively decided
to write three words on a wall in the backyard of our house...अमिय (Amiya) , आशीष (Ashish)
and इप्सिता (Ipsita). The peculiarity of these words was the alphabets they started with
(अ आ इ ) which symbolizes the beginning. That's not where the story ends, few years
down the line he was blessed with two sons and one daughter ( me being in the list I really
wonder whether he was blessed :P) . He named his kids (me n my siblings) in the same
sequence as that of the wall...अमिय , आशीष and इप्सिता. I feel proud to be his first creation
and I shall always be. All three names are in my mother tongue (Odia). The first one
"Amiya" means a thing that makes you immortal if you touch/drink it. According to Hindu
mythology it's AMRIT , a drink that made the Devtaas (deities) immortal and invincible.
The second one "Ashish" means a blessing, a common name in Hindi also. Last but not the
least "Ipsita" means a thing of desire. You must be thinking what's so great about this story?
These three words seems to be names for three kids...that's all...!!!
Well ! That's not it. The best part of this story is the miraculous intuition that my father
had before, much before it actually happened! The sequence of names is coincidentally the
same as of that the wall. Even now what amazes me in that the sequence is how could my
father be so confident on keeping the last name a female one and optimistically ...a thing of
desire. He wished the third one to be a daughter and surprisingly she was. If you call that a
coincidence, then it might just be another coincidence that the sequence is same as that of
Lord Balabhadra, Jagannath and Devi Subhadra ( Deities worshiped at Jagannath Temple)!!
All I can say is at times our CREATIVITY can make MIRACLES happen but
MIRACLES will always be God's CREATIVITY..!!!!
