Ravi S. Iyer: Spiritual

Last updated on 28th Nov. 2016 I was watching the live video stream of the inauguration of the Baghola, Haryana free hospital of Muddenahalli group, Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani International Center for Child Heart care and Research Opening, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXVcacKBG_4 . My Net connection was a little flaky so there were some breaks in the stream feed. But I got the general idea of what was going on there. The important thing to share is that PM Shri Narendra Modi DID NOT SHARE the stage with Madhusudan Rao Naidu!!! He gave a talk via video-link where he was very appreciative of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba and the activities Bhagavan inspired. He gave his best wishes and praise for the free service to humanity that the Chhattisgarh hospital of Muddenahalli group has done, and the service that this new free hospital in Haryana will do. PM Modi also offered his respects to Sri Indulal Shah and another person (Sri Naik?). PM Modi, speaking in Hindi, said that Swami...

According to youtube video live stream, Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani International Center for Child Heart care and Research Opening, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXVcacKBG_4 , Hon'ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi is expected to inaugurate Muddenahalli group's new and free hospital in Baghola, Haryana, near Delhi, today (27th Nov. 2016) at 5.20 PM. I felt it appropriate to link to my "Open Letter to PM Modi & HRD minister Javadekar on Madhusudan Rao Naidu false claim of communicator of Sathya Sai Baba" blog post, http://ravisiyer.blogspot.com/2016/09/open-letter-to-pm-modi-hrd-minister.html , dated Sept. 14th 2016. That open letter did not get a suitable response from either PM's office or HRD minister's office. I would now like to earnestly request Hon'ble PM Narendra Modi NOT to share the stage with Madhusudan Rao Naidu at this free hospital inauguration event, and avoid doing something (like having an "interview"/meeting...

Last updated on 5th Dec. 2018 A few days back bro. --name-snipped-- had put up the pic of a Sai student holding up a peacock for Swami to see & bless from up close. I have given the pic below. Thanks to the person for sharing the pic. I enjoyed the pic but did not focus on the profile view of the Sai student holding the peacock. Later it struck me that it seemed to be that of brother Vennel Raj from the Biosciences department, whom I had interacted with many times, and who is on my regular mailing list even today. I have given below our mail exchange on it (slightly edited). I (Ravi) wrote to Vennel: Can you confirm that it is you in the pic? If it is you, can you share more info. about the pic - when, more background ... Can you also tell me your period of stay in Swami educational system? May I also share your current position (if so, you will have to share that as well)? --- Vennel wrote back: Yes sir, it is me only. This was on one of the Krishna astami occas...

22nd April 2020 Update: I had an inner urge to name-snip the names of some person(s) in this post and so have done so. Given below is an extract from press release note dated 23rd Nov. 2016 on the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust website, http://www.srisathyasai.org.in/Pages/Announcements/CTPressRelease23aNov2016.htm . .. Sri Naganand then announced the induction of three new trustees to the ​Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust, namely Sri J.S.R.C.V Prasad​ Rao, the present Secretary to the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust, Dr.M.V Mohan, the internationally renowned  diabetologist and Shri Vijaya Bhaskar, the Retired Executive Director of RBI. Sri V Srinivasan, long-serving Trustee and long time devotee of Bhagawan Baba has announced his retirement as Trustee, owing to old age. --- end extract from SSSCT press announcement --- RBI stands for Reserve Bank of India, which is India's top central banking authority. With this induction, I think the current strength of the trustees in Sri S...

Last updated on 20th Apr. 2020 20th April 2020 Update: I had an inner urge to name-snip the names of some person(s) in this post and so have done so. Comment exchange on Stephen Rexford post, https://www.facebook.com/notes/stephen-rexford/mr-narendra-reddy-chairman-prashanti-council-should-resign-as-he-is-completely-e/418873328500963 , is given below. Note that SSSCT stands for Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust, Prasanthi Nilayam (Puttaparthi). Further note that the words 'firing the gun' or similar in this post are metaphorical, referring to verbal (words) vicious criticism targeting some person(s), and not literal. Ravi S. Iyer wrote: If it is true that there is (or will be) an orgn. about which an announcement was made in Sai Kulwanth Hall, having Dr. Narendranath Reddy's wife as a member of that orgn. and which has other members who OPENLY associate with Muddenahalli group, then Dr. N. Reddy MUST issue a statement on the matter clarifying his stand. About his in-law...

Given below is a comment exchange (inner-level comments to my comment, "Shubha Ramesh Kumar, Very well said! Excellent analysis! ...", dated Nov. 17th 2016, 11.11 PM) on Arun Srinivas' Facebook post, https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=695701403921934&id=100004462429073 , dated Nov. 16th 2016 Arun Srinivas wrote (slightly edited): Ravi S. Iyer....I just forgot this persons name...He used to be behind swami during darshan.....shocked to know that he with MDH....what's his name sir ? His (Is) he the same person? [Attached pic: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=696338630524878&set=p.696338630524878&type=3&theater ] --- Ravi S. Iyer wrote: Arun Srinivas, The gentleman whose pic you have put up, getting associated with Muddenahalli group, was, for me, the saddest event that happened due to Muddenahalli group FALSE BELIEF. He is Prof. G.V. Prabhakar Rao (GVP sir), formerly of the Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science (DMACS), ...

Last edited on  22nd April 2020 22nd April 2020 Update: I had an inner urge to name-snip the names of some person(s) in this post and so have done so. Given below are some comment exchanges in which I was involved in Facebook post, https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=695701403921934&id=100004462429073 . Mr V.R. Ganti wrote (slightly edited): See when some direct questions are raised, lot of people abstain from offering thier comments.. This is KALIYUGA, time when there is no place for TRUTH & DHARMA ---- Shubha Ramesh Kumar responded (set of comments joined together): Sir, Tell me about Mr. Voleti, so his ego is so fragile that the moment someone yells at him, he runs away to the opposite camp and aligns himself to a fraudster without no trouble and in no time? So that is RJR's fault and not the weak mindset of Mr. Voleti? Not the weak faith of Mr. Voleti? Tell me about the spiritual strength of Mr BNNM, he asks to become trustee, these guys sa...

Please note that this post is about a disturbing event in north west India yesterday, 15th Nov. 2016, in which one person died and a few people got injured. Please skip reading the rest of this post if you get disturbed by such posts. This is FOR REAL!!! I have never participated in a Hindu (or other religion) engagement/marriage function in Mumbai or in South India where people fire guns. But I have read about reports of such engagement/marriage celebration in North India. The video linked below makes it so real and so horrifying! You can see men and a Hindu-religious-order lady (a sadhvi) firing guns in celebration! One of the guns seem to have been fired in a horizontal position instead of vertical, resulting in a bullet killing one person and perhaps another/more bullet(s) injuring others. The combination of religion & guns, especially when flaunted around in this pretty intimidating fashion, is so terrifying! I think the government should take steps to prevent such flau...

Last updated on 22nd April 2020 22nd April 2020 Update: I had an inner urge to name-snip the names of some person(s) in this post and so have done so. Shri V.R. Ganti's Facebook post, https://www.facebook.com/notes/vr-ganti/dr-voleti-at-mhalli-doing-namaskar-to-madhu-crazy-indeed/10208013664004077 , dated Nov. 14th 2016, shows a sidewise picture (youtube video screenshot) of a person confirmed by Shri V.R. Ganti to be Dr. Voleti Chowdhary, former director of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Prasanthigram (Super hospital, Puttaparthi), seated in front row for darshan of so called subtle body of Muddenahalli and doing Namaskar (folded palms gesture of respect) to the imagined so called subtle body next to Madhusudan Rao Naidu and Shri B.N. Narasimhamurthy. The associated youtube video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuyhUeifZrA , has the description, "Global Akhanda Bhajans, Day 02 : 13th November 2016". The comment that I put on above post of M...

Here's a short video of British PM Theresa May visiting the Sri Someshwara Hindu temple in Bangalore dressed in a Sari, https://www.facebook.com/10downingstreet/videos/10154728384838453/ , 35 secs, dated Nov. 8th 2016. Given below are some screenshot pics from the above video Here are some links having pics, much better than my screenshot pics above, of the visit: 1) Theresa May steps out in sari as she hails success of ‘Global Britain’ drive during India trade trip,  https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2139966/theresa-may-steps-out-in-sari-as-she-hails-success-of-global-britain-drive-during-india-trade-trip/ 2) May hails success of 'global Britain' drive during India trade mission, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-3915124/Theresa-May-meeting-business-leaders-Indias-IT-capital.html 3) Here's Theresa May Looking Gorgeous In A Saree, http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/11/08/heres-theresa-may-looking-gorgeous-in-a-saree/ I also came across ...

Given below are content and some comments from my Facebook post, https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/1814751602074742 . Russian president Putin, in 2001, saying that Russia is a unique place as Christians and Muslims have lived in it in harmony for centuries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leW6GtMMEuo , around 2 mins. He talks about his interaction with an Egyptian president in the Kremlin where the Egyptian president tells him that he knows about the (incidents depicted in the) Biblical pictures put up on the wall in the room where they were then, as all of that is in the Koran too!! Ravi: I am glad to hear such messages from Russian president Putin. ---- In response to a comment mentioning Chechen wars, I responded (slightly edited): Thanks for your criticism --name-snipped--. I am spreading the message about religious tolerance and religious pluralism, whether that comes from President Obama of the USA, or President Putin of Russia or Prime Minister Modi of Indi...

22nd April 2020 Update: I had an inner urge to name-snip the names of some person(s) in this post and so have done so. Given below are two comments I made in my Facebook post, https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/1813871192162783 , which I felt appropriate to put up as a separate post. Mr Vr Ganti writes (addressed to Alok Dara Shikoh but readable by others too), "Did you read my note about Satish Naik Garu, sort of terrorizing me by reaching out to my family and wants to create a rift in my family. Poor chap does not know that my family members will not ask me to stop what I am doing because they said that I can do whatever I feel is OK and if it keeps me happy." I would like to say to all readers that Satish Naik is a good friend of mine who has been very helpful to me in understanding the Muddenahalli saga of so called communicator and the activities of Muddenhalli group. I value his friendship and will be loyal/biased towards him. Having said that, I wou...