Do we need a reason for a name?

Let’s begin. Why rinasurya?

One of you may ask why this blog is named rinasurya. It’s because I like the name Rina. And Surya is my own name.

Rina is a girl that I am in love with. Rina is the girl who replaces another girl, let’s just call her the bringer of victory. Rina will bring me victory.

And why ‘A Completely Spiritual Journey with the Sun’?

Because Rina means a joy that is both complete and spiritual in Hebrew. And I am moving forward in time along with the sun. Maybe it’s the sun that moves time, since without it we would lose our orientation of time as there would be no day or night.

So to Rina, wherever you are, Bandung, Jakarta, New York, Pisa or Geneva, and to the rina journey I am trying to achieve with my mind, body and soul.

From the google entry that inspires me to include rina in the blog name: We named our daughter Rina. In Hebrew, it means a joy that is both complete and spiritual. This fairly idiomatic meaning was explained to me in this way: if you imagine a linear spectrum of good feelings from ‘mere’ joy (“simcha”) to love (“ahava”), then “Rina” is orthogonal to that spectrum, reaching upwards towards God. As an aside, Rina (I am told) also means “Queen” in Hindu.

And Rina is my queen, if she chooses to.