Ravi S. Iyer: Spiritual

Last updated on 20th July 2020 These are some thoughts of mine. What is the truth of existence, and the whole truth? Yes, feeling the unchanging awareness/consciousness in one, which is ever peaceful, and which one intuitively realizes is our real identity which one ***feels*** will persist even after death of the body, is a great truth, which has been talked about by masters like Ramana Maharishi (of the 20th century and so somebody who is not that far back in time) and many, many others. I think this is what many refer to as self-realization (realizing that our truth is not the changing body & mind which will perish one day but that our truth is the unchanging, ever peaceful awareness/consciousness in us). But is that the whole truth? Is there more to the reality of human existence? For me as a Hindu, this is where the core messages of Hindu scripture become important guiding lights. Karma, re-incarnation, Avatars and power of prayer to, sometimes at least, result in d

This post has moved to https://tnarayanasasthri.blogspot.com/2023/04/pics-related-to-my-ancestor-turavur.html on 14 Apr. 2023.

Readers may want to see my recent post on another blog of mine: draftable.com has a great online tool for comparing text of 2 PDF files,  https://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2020/06/draftablecom-has-great-online-tool-for.html . Note that such comparison is needed, at times, while self-publishing books (inner contents of book is typically provided as pdf file to self-publishing platform company).

Last updated on 5th Sept 2020 When author of post or comment is not mentioned, it should be assumed that it is me (Ravi S. Iyer). To save time, I am usually not providing my FB post links but only contents. I am also not hyperlinking links. So readers will have to copy-paste links from this post onto a browser link box and then browse to that link. ========================================== Panch sir is now USA National Science Foundation Head! The tweet in message below is dated 19th June 2020. So this information is over a week old but I came to know of it only today. I had known about his nomination by USA President Donald Trump some time back but not of the USA Senate ***unanimous*** confirmation. ---Contents of message I received --- Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan has been appointed by the President of USA as the chairman of National Science Foundation of USA. He was a Balvikas Student from Tamilnadu. Served as the One of the Zonal Presidents of Sri Sathya Sai International Or

Last updated on 14th June 2020 When author of post or comment is not mentioned, it should be assumed that it is me (Ravi S. Iyer). To save time, I am usually not providing my FB post links but only contents. I am also not hyperlinking links. So readers will have to copy-paste links from this post onto a browser link box and then browse to that link. ========================================== [Entries below are copied from My April 2020 FB posts on novel coronavirus 2019 (SARS-CoV-2) / COVID-19,  https://ravisiyermisc.blogspot.com/2020/05/my-april-2020-fb-posts-on-novel.html . Only entries which seem to have a spiritual or Puttaparthi angle to it have been copied.] I was debating whether I should share this publicly. It is somewhat distressing news. But I think that right info. being provided on the matter is appropriate and I think the shared post seems to have correct info. about the district authorities view of the matter. The shared post has a Telugu language video and

A few days ago I received a request from a petition signer to see the latest list of signatures on our change.org petition: Declaration by Sathya Sai devotees and alumni & staff of Sai educational institutions, condemning spiritual fraud Madhusudan Rao Naidu, https://www.change.org/p/sathya-sai-devotee-fraternity-worldwide-we-condemn-spiritual-fraud-madhusudan-rao-naidu . I downloaded that list today, 11th June 2020, and have uploaded it as a public Google Drive file here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G4SQmq_NNVIQ8sSDdY_dtTHsuAAmzqWj/view?usp=sharing , which has 556 signatures out of which 2 or 3 are test signatures, and so we have over 550 presumably real persons' signatures from across the world. I also sent out the above information as an update to the petition (which should go/have gone as an email to all the petition signers).

Note: This follows up on my post: 'Was surprised to see a small "knowledge panel" on Google against my name - Ravi S. Iyer', https://ravisiyer.blogspot.com/2020/05/was-surprised-to-see-small-knowledge.html , 10th May 2020. Readers that think I am getting caught up in an ego trap, may please read the section, "Am I falling into an ego trap because I put up a post on Google small 'knowledge panel' associated with my name?" in that post. end-Note. Now Google search for Ravi S Iyer (or Ravi S. Iyer or ravi s iyer) does NOT directly show a Google Knowledge Panel, Instead it suggests in a box on the right of the top result, as follows: See Results about Ravi S. Iyer (Author) [Link in blue colour] Books: Indian Computer Science (CS) & Informati... --- end box text --- Given below is a screenshot (dated 7th June 2020) of the above. [To open pic in larger resolution, right-click on pic followed by open link (NOT image) in new tab/window. In