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Got some mental clarity about how I, as single spiritual aspirant, should handle health challenges; Sensitive parts coded; Current main goals

Over the past several months, I think I have got some mental clarity on the big and very confusing issue that has been quite dominant in my life since my health emergencies of early 2022. That issue is about what is the best approach for me as a single spiritual aspirant, to handle health challenges and associated financial burden. BTW my health issues are quite under control now with regular medication and lifestyle control but there are many limitations these health issues have introduced in my life as compared to my life before 2022. This 'mental clarity' is, as of now, only at my thinking and mental preparation level and has been stable over past several months. But I really do not know whether they will stand the tests of any additional real life major health challenges in future. Nonetheless, earlier on, after early 2022 challenges, I did not have even this mental clarity, and had got into a lot of major confusion about what is the right way for me to handle such issues. ...
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Almost impenetrable mystery of ever-present, unchanging and indestructible awareness (Atma), I believe, holds secrets of existence; Space Odyssey Monoliths

This post captures some recent spiritual contemplation of mine. In this post, by 'contemplation' I mean: considering (thinking about) something thoughtfully for some time. The ever-present, unchanging and indestructible awareness (awareness-I/Atma) is a great mystery of (my) life, perhaps the greatest mystery of my life. It seems to me to be almost impenetrable. Note that ever-present and unchanging aspects of the awareness/Atma are direct experience for me but the indestructible aspect is a deeply held belief backed by strong intuition. Recently it struck me that the awareness/Atma can be considered partly to be like the mysterious Monoliths in Arthur Clarke's Space Odyssey 2001. Almost impenetrable! Monolith replica pic , Monolith wiki page , Video clip of the Moon Monolith in the movie (3 min. 47 secs.) . I believe and feel (through intuition) that if I am able to uncover or dissolve into or penetrate the awareness/Atma then I may have a clear pathway to go beyond my b...
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Have become steady with Dissolve into awareness-I / Dissolve in God Meditation method; Quite satisfied with it

Last updated on 30 July 2025 This post shares key points related to meditation practice part of my spiritual practice/journey since my last post update on this topic around 2 months back:  Based on my spiritual practice, my understanding but not yet experience, of two possible ways of going beyond body consciousness .  The above post has a section: Method 2: Dissolve into awareness-I / Dissolve into God. I have now become steady in this method for my meditation practice. It is jelling well with me. I am able to get into this meditation method and stay in it quite easily. So I am quite satisfied with this method. But I have not been able to get into a trance or go beyond body consciousness. At times, I do get into a sort-of deeper zone and that's a great feeling but no trance, as of now. On Sundays, I try to spend more time in meditation. Today (27 Jul 2025) being Sunday, I had a good meditation session using this method which was for around two hours though with some spir...
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Info on workarounds for lack of dark mode support in Blogger

Info given below is based on my usage and also on a recent chat with ChatGPT: For display of blog posts/pages: On Android, Chrome dark mode shows Blogger posts in dark mode well. On desktop PC on Windows, Chrome dark mode for Blogger website does not seem to work or work well. I use a Chrome dark mode extension on desktop PC which works well for display of blog posts/pages.  There seem to be some CSS and/or JavaScript solutions to provide dark mode support for display of Blogger blog posts/pages. But I do not want to get into them now as these approaches will need to be tested well before regular use on my main blogs. For editing blog posts/pages: Blogger website as well as Blogger mobile app does not support dark mode. On desktop PC (on Windows), I use High Contrast which is not a great solution but quite OK. [Windows High Contrast toggle keyboard shortcut: Alt+Shift+PrintScreen] On Android, one of ChatGPT suggestions of "Settings > Accessibility > Color inversion"...
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Based on my spiritual practice, my understanding but not yet experience, of two possible ways of going beyond body consciousness

Last updated on 29 May 2025 This post follows up on a recent spiritual notes post of mine. See 10th May 2025 entry in post: Spiritual (Chanting & Meditation) Notes (Edited) from 26 Dec. 2024 to 10 May 2025, https://ravisiyer.blogspot.com/2025/05/spiritual-meditation-notes-edited-from.html . In fact, some of the content of this post repeats what I have said in this earlier post. I decided to put this up as a separate post instead of adding to my earlier post, as I think the topic deserves a separate post. At the outset, I would like to say that I have not been able to go beyond body consciousness despite having tried to do that over a few years now. But in the process, I think I have a clearer idea of the way that could possibly, I repeat, possibly be achieved. Method 1: Raise core of my being to beyond top of my head This method involves fair amount of mental effort, which is first identifying and then staying in what I sense as the core of my being, which is a little behind the e...
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Problem of frequent spam comments from same spam commenter(s)

Some spam comments on this blog are unavoidable. But the problem is that some spam commenters keep commenting even when their earlier comments are marked as spam and so do not show in the associated blog posts. I googled for a way to block some such spam commenters. Looks like Blogger does not have an in-built mechanism for that. I can stop all comments or limit comments to those with some id (like Google id) but I don't want to do that as that might block some genuine commenter. Further, the regular spam commeters also seem to have Ids like Google/Blogger id. This article claims to give some solution which involves inserting jquery code in blogger theme: How to Ban Someone Commenting on Your BlogSpot Blog, https://www.knigulper.com/2017/11/ban-spam-user-commenting-on-blogger-blogs.html . As of now,  I don't want to get into inserting such code into the blogger theme(s) I use. But I may try it out in future, if required.
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ChatGPT and Gemini apps' responses on: Dissolve into God Meditation

Yesterday, 10 May 2025, I was pleased to see quite good responses from both ChatGPT and Gemini apps for my message/request: Tell me about Dissolve into God meditation. ---- I think I had used the Android apps for the chats on my phone and later viewed the chat transcripts from the web app versions on my PC. ChatGPT's response was easier to absorb as it had clear sections and simple explanations. The initial part of ChatGPT's response is given below: "Dissolve into God" meditation refers to a deep spiritual practice where the individual self (ego or separate identity) is surrendered or merged into the infinite divine presence—God, Brahman, or the Absolute. It is common in Advaita Vedanta, Bhakti Yoga, Sufism, and certain mystical Christian and Buddhist traditions. The essence is losing the sense of separateness and realizing oneness with the divine. ---- The whole chat can be viewed at: https://chatgpt.com/share/681f258c-1c44-8013-b4f5-adf4cb1005f6 . Default model was...
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