Ravi S. Iyer: Spiritual

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinmaya_Mission : "The Chinmaya Mission is a Hindu religious and spiritual organization engaged in the dissemination of Vedanta, the science of the self as expounded in the Vedas, particularly the Upanishads, and other Hindu scriptures such as the Bhagavad Gita.[2][3] The Chinmaya Mission was established in India in 1953 by devotees of the renowned Vedanta teacher Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati from present-day Kerala, India.[4] Administered by the Central Chinmaya Mission Trust in Mumbai, India, the mission was later headed by Swami Tejomayananda and is now headed by Swami Swaroopananda. There are over 313 mission centres all over India and abroad. North America had more than 30 centres.[5]" [Wiki References for above quoted paragraphs: 2. "Chinmaya Mission | CMLA". chinmayala.org. Archived from the original on 21 April 2017. Retrieved 30 April 2017. 3. "History of Chinmaya Mission". cseweb.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 30 April ...

I came across this fascinating meditation teaching of Ramana Maharshi in the book: Self-Realization by B.V. Narasimha Swami, https://www.amazon.in/gp/product/8188225746/ . A pic of the cover page of the book I got from same amazon.in sale page is given below and it is different from the sale page picture. But the contents correspond to the same book. [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.] As per the book, Frank Humphreys first came to India (entering India at Bombay) in January 1911 "to join the Police Department as an Assistant Superintendent." The implication seems to be that Humphreys was British and was sent by the British government to India (India was under British rule then). https://archive.arunachala.org/newsletters/2017/jul-aug informs us that "Francis Henry Humphreys was born in 1890 in London, of High Anglican parents. His father w...

Last updated on7th March 2021 In Oct. 2020, I had already shared the good news that top Internet search engines' top result (1st result) for: sathya sai baba miracles parapsychology investigation gave pro-Sai posts. For more, see my post: My humble 2013 review of Prof. Haraldsson's book on Sathya Sai miracles, now gets top ten ranking in Internet search engines for relevant search terms, and ***counters*** anti-Sai articles, https://ravisiyer.blogspot.com/2020/10/my-humble-2013-review-of-prof.html . But in the same post I also shared that top Internet search engines' top results for: sathya sai baba miracles scientific investigation had results where the first result was pro-Sai but a few later ranked results were anti-Sai. Today I would like to share the good news that for above search term, the first three to four result links are pro-Sai or neutral. In some cases, one of the result links (directly or indirectly through an intermediate post) is my review of Prof. Haralds...

Great to see Sanathana Sarathi keep sharing important messages of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba on Self-Inquiry and Self-Realisation. This one is a letter from Bhagavan to Hislop. The pics below are from Sanathana Sarathi March 2021.  [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.] The text data (not image) of the letter is available here (with some minor editing) :  https://saisarathi.com/thought-of-the-month/who-am-i-3/  . I have given the text of the letter below without any editing of minor English language issues: To Hislop with Blessings My Dear! You will find it deep within yourself. Think it many times, ponder it, it tells you about your true nature, it gives you hope, it gives you new life, it points the way, it proves to you that GOD is within you and you are not man, man is GOD, it shows you that it is possible for you to realize GOD (Swamiji) b...

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. ==========================================  [Telugu song] Shivaratri Song 2019 | Full Song | శివరాత్రి పాట | Mangli | Tirupathi Matla | SK.Baji | MicTv.in, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M129hwTnL-k, around 5 mins, published in March 2019 - 128 million (yes, 128 million) views. In response to a comment, I wrote (slightly edited): If you did not know, you may be interested to know that the lady singer is from the Banjara community and was born in Gooty, A.P. She has a wiki page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangli . I was very happy to see a Banjara community (which I think is a Scheduled Tribe community and also called Lambadi community in AP) lady sing this Shiva...