Ravi S. Iyer: Spiritual

Last updated on 20th July 2021 My Jan. 2020 post: Interesting to see top ten Internet search ranking of 'Who am I? I am I ...' book for queries on answer to existential reality question: who am I?, https://ravisiyer.blogspot.com/2020/01/interesting-to-see-top-ten-search.html , showed that search ranking for my book was good for above mentioned search term. But if the word 'reality' were removed from the search term making it: answer to existential question: who am I?, then Google Search did not list the book in its first fifty results that I checked! Amazon India link for the 'Who am I? I am I ...' book:  https://www.amazon.in/Who-Ultimate-Existential-conversation-iami1-wordpress-com/dp/164650349X/  . I am happy to see that Google search results ranking has significantly improved now for the last mentioned search term (but without colon : as I felt that may not be used so much by people) as compared to what it was in Jan. 2020 . For search term: existential que

Youtube video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl9izOvsUJg Screenshot showing view count is given below. [To open pic in larger resolution, right-click on pic followed by open link (NOT image) in new tab/window. In new tab/window you may have to click on pic to zoom in.] =========================== In response to a comment on associated Facebook post https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2983818635168027 , I wrote (slightly edited): Wow! That's some experience Dr. Hislop had, which you had the good fortune to hear personally from him --name-snipped--. Thanks for sharing. ... I had read about a somewhat similar experience he had written about in Indian context.

Last updated on 5th Nov. 2020 Update: As of 2nd Nov. 2020, the Knowledge Panel has the death date as 1995.  --- end Update --- Knowledge Panel pic is given below, and its link is: https://g.co/kgs/8tQv7f . I request readers who have some answers to questions below to please share them with me. 1. When did John Hislop pass away? 2. I presume that the John Hislop who wrote books about horse racing ("Breeding for racing", "Flat Race Riding", "Hardly a Jockey") and the book, "The Brigadier", all of which are referred to in his Knowledge Panel and its extended information, is a different person from Sathya Sai devotee community leader John Hislop. Is my presumption right? 3. Many years ago, I read both "My Baba and I" and "Conversations with Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba" and benefited greatly from them. Has he written any other books on Sathya Sai Baba (e.g. "Seeking Divinity")? 4. Did John Hislop have any children/heirs

Last updated on 28th Dec. 2020 28th Dec. 2020: Noted that now Google Search for: ravi s iyer  or  Ravi S. Iyer shows the Knowledge Panel on the right (earlier it used to show a 'see results about' message with link that led to the Knowledge Panel). The associated pics are given below. [To open pic in larger resolution, right-click on pic followed by open link (NOT image) in new tab/window. In new tab/window you may have to click on pic to zoom in.] ---- end 28th Dec. 2020 update ----- Early morning today (29th Oct. 2020) I noted that the Google Knowledge Panel info. associated with my name - Ravi S. Iyer - now has my profile pic which is from the 1990s. I have chosen not to share later pics of mine publicly. The Google Knowledge Panel link: https://g.co/kgs/Geqcn7 Given below is the pic of the full Google Knowledge Panel. The results window for Google search for Ravi S. Iyer (or ravi s iyer) also shows the profile pic (in smaller size). Clicking on the Ravi S. Iyer link on righ

Last updated on 29th Nov. 2020 For search term: are vedanta and science compatible? 9th result in Google Search gives my "Who am I? I am I - Ultimate Existential Reality Answer; Vedanta; God and Science conversation" book (  https://store.pothi.com/book/ravi-s-iyer-ultimate-existential-reality-answer-vedanta-god-and-science/  ). See below pic. [To open pic in larger resolution, right-click on pic followed by open link (NOT image) in new tab/window. In new tab/window you may have to click on pic to zoom in.] 16th result in Bing search gives same book 15th result in DuckDuckGo search gives same book ============ For search term: are vedanta, belief in divine power and science compatible? 12th result in Google search gives above book 5th result in Bing search gives my blog post about above book ( https://ravisiyer.blogspot.com/2018/05/conveying-why-my-existential-reality.html ) 5th result in DuckDuckGo search gives same blog post about above book ( https://ravisiyer.blogspot.co

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. ========================================== Interesting to see how Ramana ashramam top management (President) succession has worked over the decades with latest President taking over in June 2020! Shared FB post: https://www.facebook.com/RamanaMaharshi/posts/10158585885684631 ... This July 2020 Ramanashramam newsletter has more details: https://www.sriramanamaharshi.org/saranagati/Saranagathi_eNewsletter_July_2020.pdf -------------- Lata Mangeshkar singing (audio only with still pic of Lata) the famous Sri Ramachandra Kripalu bhajaman bhajan. Lataji is just awesome! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_xQ0ur9i24, 5 min. 6 secs. ... Anup Jalota singing it (audio): https://www

Last updated on 21st Oct. 2020 I am very happy to note now in Oct. 2020 that my humble Sept. 2013 review: (my "Customer Review" on amazon) https://www.amazon.com/review/R1GN6LQYATB2HJ , of Prof. Erlendur Haraldsson's July 2013 book: Modern Miracles:The Story of Sathya Sai Baba: A Modern Day Prophet, is appearing in top ten results for appropriate search terms, giving Internet search users a balanced and more truthful view of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba's miraculous powers and, very importantly, countering the views of critics who seem to simply lack knowledge about Sathya Sai Baba's miraculous powers. Note that my review is a longish one giving readers a nutshell idea about the book including its conclusion. Two of the paragraphs towards the end of the review are as follows: In the concluding chapter of the book, Haraldsson puts forward "a few speculative hypotheses regarding the causes and nature of the mysterious phenomena around Sai Baba" and examin

Last updated on 18th October 2020 Yesterday I saw part of a recent video interview of Tim Sledge, a USA ex-pastor who now is an atheist and does not believe in Jesus Christ or God, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSp1yOrSFK0 . Here is his book link: Goodbye Jesus: An Evangelical Preacher's Journey Beyond Faith, https://www.amazon.in/Goodbye-Jesus-Evangelical-Preachers-Journey-ebook/dp/B07L7H66LP/ . I felt sad that this person's disappointments with the Christian church system that he was associated with as a preacher, and with the other church systems (churches) that he explored to "restore" his faith, led him to lose faith in God and in the divinity of Lord Jesus Christ. In the interview, he talked about his eventual rejection of the belief that those who do not believe in Jesus Christ will go to Hell, among other such beliefs, which he seems to have not only believed in earlier, but may also have preached. He talked about some members of his congregation not being

Last updated on 7th Oct. 2020 On my inquiry, my cousin forwarded me below pic of my thaatha or paata i.e. maternal grandfather (mother's father) Narayana Ramachandran. [To open pic in larger resolution, right-click on pic followed by open link (NOT image) in new tab/window. In new tab/window you may have to click on pic to zoom in.] N. Ramachandran was a First Class Magistrate in the District and Sessions Court in various locations in Kerala and finally, before he retired, he served in the State Secretariat in Trivandrum. N. Ramachandran was B.A., B.L. (Bachelor of Law). Based on what my mother told me, I believe he knew Sanskrit but I don't know whether he studied it as part of his B.A. His Gotra was Kaundinya, Sutra was Apastamba and Shaka (branch of Veda) was Yajurveda. He was the son of Thuravoor Narayana Sasthrigal (TNS), noted Sanskrit scholar in grammar, and principal of Govt. Sanskrit College, Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum) from 1909-1911 (for more on TNS see https://r

This post has moved to https://tnarayanasasthri.blogspot.com/2023/04/finally-got-kerala-sahitya-charitram.html on 14 Apr. 2023.