Bhawana

Bhawana
Bhawana is a contemporary Hindu Indian name which means Feeling, Emotion or Sentiment in Sanskrit. People spell it Bhawana, Bhavna, Bhawna, Bhavana as well. It also refers to the Hindu goddess Saraswati in many ancient religious hymns. Bhawana may also mean Sense of Soul. It is a name that is common in Northern India.Persons having this name comes under Zodiac Sign Sagittarius, as par the Indian Astrology or Bhartiya Jyotish.
As per the Buddha origin , Bhawana ('Pali' and 'Sanskrit') means 'development'. In the teaching of the Buddha it is often used in a compound form in such phrases as citta-bhavana, metta-bhawana, samatha-bhawana and vipassana-bhawana. These phrases mean, respectively: the development of the mind or the cultivation of the heart (citta means both heart and mind); the development/cultivation of loving-kindness; the cultivation of tranquility and the development of insight.
The word bhavana is sometimes rather vaguely translated into English as 'meditation' so that, for example, metta-bhawana may be translated as the meditation on loving-kindness or vipassana-bhawana as 'vippasana meditation'. Meditation as a state of absorbed concentration on the reality of the present moment is properly called dhyana or samadhi.
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