Ravi S. Iyer: Spiritual

Yesterday I paid Rs.1500 as "Standard Distribution" charge to Pothi.com to make my book available on amazon.in and flipkart. As part of this process, I needed to raise the price of my book to minimum price for "Standard Distribution" as now margin for the distributors (amazon.in and flipkart) will also have to be factored into the price.  The minimum price for my book (123 pages, A5 size) for Pothi.com's "Standard Distribution" is Rs.199 and so I have raised the price of the book to that. Anybody can check the minimum price calculation by using Pothi.com's Price & Royalty Calculator page: https://publish.pothi.com/tools/price-royalty-calculator/?nav=distribution . The new price of Rs.199 is now shown on the sale page on Pothi.com web store: "Who am I? I am I - Ultimate Existential Reality Answer; Vedanta; God and Science conversation", https://pothi.com/pothi/book/ravi-s-iyer-ultimate-existential-reality-answer-vedanta-god-and-scie...

Last updated on 10th Dec. 2018 Shri Venkitachalam Iyer of Puttaparthi is the first person to have bought paperback copy of my book, "Who am I? I am I - Ultimate Existential Reality Answer; Vedanta; God and Science conversation", from a Puttaparthi book shop for Rs. 240. Thank you Venkitachalam Iyer sir. I hope you find the book worth the money you spent purchasing it. Note that I have chosen not to get any royalty money or any sales commission money - so I don't get any money from such sales. But the seller, the self-publishing platform (Pothi.com) and the printer profit from such sales and I am perfectly fine with that. He picked up his copy from Music Mandir shop around two days back. I had helped set up the transaction which involved Music Mandir shop first placing an order with Pothi.com here: https://pothi.com/pothi/book/ravi-s-iyer-ultimate-existential-reality-answer-vedanta-god-and-science and paying Rs. 159 + shipping cost to Puttaparthi of Rs. 50. If I rec...

Last updated on 1st Nov. 2018 The two poems are as follows (I have given below the transcript of his English translation of these poems): 1) Swami's declaration as Sai Avatar when he was 14 years old Know that I am indeed Sai. I am free from all the ties and bodily attachments. None can fathom or understand my nature. 2) Swami's explaining his Avataric mission (in a letter to his elder brother Seshama Raju Garu, if I am not mistaken). I have a task, a task to foster all mankind and ensure for all of them lives full of bliss. I have a vow, a vow to lead all who stray from the straight path again into goodness and save them. I am committed to the work that I love - to remove suffering of the poor and grant them what they lack. My glory lies in protecting all those who worship and adore me with good conduct and steadfastness. The hallmark of true devotion according to Swami is to treat the dualities like joy and grief, gain and loss with equanimity. ---- [Upda...

I wonder whether the Honourable Supreme Court bench judges who wrote the majority verdict on the Sabarimala case (one judge, a lady, dissented) knew that their order would be used as a weapon by some women journalists and activists who don't seem to have any history of devotion to Lord Ayyappa, to attempt to celebrate breaking of tradition rather than approach Lord Ayyappa deity with piety. A journalist is supposed to cover events. Here some women journalists are trying to become the events! Tragic to see this tamasha (circus spectacle) at a place of worship and piety. My personal view is that Lord Ayyappa is a celibate deity. Yad Bhavam Tad Bhavati! As is the feeling so it happens! When devotees have worshipped the deity with the feelings and belief that the deity is a celibate deity who does not want young and middle aged women to come before him, then that belief must be respected and adhered to. It seems that the vast majority of women devotees of Lord Ayyappa are ...

The pic below seems to have been put at a junction kind of place with one road leading to Muddenahalli and another road leading to Puttaparthi. [To open pic in higher resolution, right-click on pic followed by open in new tab/window. In new tab/window you may have to click on pic to zoom in.] Wonderful to see this! Great caption about ***right path*** to Puttaparthi! Muddenahalli has the Cheap Imitator Madhusudan Rao Naidu ****falsely claiming**** that he is a so called communicator of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. The path going to Madhusudan Rao Naidu of Muddenahalli is the ***wrong path***.

Last updated on 13th Nov. 2018 This post focuses on where and how to buy paperback copy of "Who am I? I am I - Ultimate Existential Reality Answer; Vedanta; God and Science conversation" book. Alternatively, readers could opt to download for ***free*** the ebook version of the same book here: https://pothi.com/pothi/book/ebook-ravi-s-iyer-who-am-i-i-am-i-ultimate-existential-reality-answer-vedanta-god-and-science-c . Where to buy paperback copy for delivery in India 1) You can buy paperback copy (A5 size book with 123 pages) of "Who am I? I am I - Ultimate Existential Reality Answer; Vedanta; God and Science conversation" for delivery anywhere in India at the following web stores: a) Amazon India: https://www.amazon.in/dp/B07K7M2963 b) Flipkart (India): https://www.flipkart.com/am-i-ultimate-existential-reality-answer-vedanta-god-science-conversation/p/itmfazakubzrhhru?pid=9789353115210 Both the above sites sell the book at Rs.199 + shipping. Amazon sh...

Last updated on 14th Oct. 2018 As I am working on promoting my book, "Who am I? I am I - Ultimate Existential Reality Answer; Vedanta; God and Science conversation", https://pothi.com/pothi/book/ravi-s-iyer-ultimate-existential-reality-answer-vedanta-god-and-science , it is becoming clear that listing on amazon.in may be a significant thing from visibility and impact point of view. I guess that most book buyers in India know of amazon.in. Pothi.com is not so well known. So listing the book on amazon.in would help raise the profile of the book somewhat. For doing that I need to pay a one-time charge of Rs.1500 to Pothi.com with no annual fee as of now, as it is currently waived. But the hassle is that the price of the book will increase from Rs.159 (the production cost of book with ZERO ROYALTY to me, as per my choice) to Rs.199! Not only will amazon.in list price be Rs.199 (with perhaps some discounts coming into play, at times), but even Pothi.com price will have t...

When author of post or comment is not mentioned, it should be assumed that it is me (Ravi S. Iyer). On FB post, https://www.facebook.com/notes/vr-ganti/any-amount-of-good-actions-karma-will-not-offset-the-bad-actions-karma-of-mudden/10213464794918943/ , Ravi S. Iyer wrote on 27th Oct. 2018: I get no happiness in criticizing Shri B.N. Narasimhamurthy. But it has to be done for the benefit of Sathya Sai devotees. Narasimhamurthy has done, and continues to do, one of the biggest spiritual disservices any devotee of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba can do, by misguiding young students and others into accepting that Cheap Imitator Madhusudan Rao Naidu is saying the words of Sathya Sai and that Sathya Sai so-called subtle body has become one (or becomes one, when Madhusudan is giving Darshan) with Madhusudan Rao Naidu. Narasimhamurthy has exposed his spiritual ignorance about Sathya Sai Baba's divinity by this very sad endorsement and promotion of the Cheap Imitator. That one of the ...

Last updated on 4th Mar. 2019 Yesterday, 9th Oct. 2018, I was able to confirm that one of the two schools that I studied in, Cardinal Gracias High School in Bandra (East), Mumbai, has received paperback copy of my book, "Who am I? I am I - Ultimate Existential Reality Answer; Vedanta; God and Science conversation", https://pothi.com/pothi/book/ravi-s-iyer-ultimate-existential-reality-answer-vedanta-god-and-science . I was informed that it would be given to the principal, Rev. Fr. Sabu Thomas, O. Praem. I requested that my covering letter email also be provided to him along with the book. Note that I had organized printing and sending of the book on 28th Sept. 2018. I am very happy that I could do this small act of gratitude and love towards the school where I studied from 7th standard to 10th standard from June 1974 to March/April 1978. [I had earlier thought it was three years but the School Leaving Certificate photocopy below shows it was 4 years.] [To open pic in h...

Last updated on 12th Oct. 2018 Today, 8th Oct. 2018, I was able to confirm from staff of University of Mumbai Vice-Chancellor's (VC) office, that they have received the paperback copy of my book, "Who am I? I am I - Ultimate Existential Reality Answer; Vedanta; God and Science conversation", https://pothi.com/pothi/book/ravi-s-iyer-ultimate-existential-reality-answer-vedanta-god-and-science . As I requested that my email to the Vice-Chancellor be treated as a covering letter, the staff person said that he will print the email and give the book along with the printed email to the VC. Given below is the initial part of my covering letter-email to the VC on 29th Sept. 2018: Dear Hon'ble Vice-Chancellor of University of Mumbai, Prof. Suhas Pednekar, I studied in Ruia College, Mumbai affiliated to Mumbai University, for 5 years for my F.Y.J.C to T.Y.B.Sc. education. I passed out with B.Sc. (Physics) in 1983. I take this opportunity to thank Ruia college and Mum...