Ravi S. Iyer: Spiritual

Last updated on 5th Sept. 2021 5th Sept. 2021 Update: My GKP has now changed. Please see my post: Good to see my Google Knowledge Panel drop my Google Scholar profile and show my Facebook profile,  https://ravisiyer.blogspot.com/2021/09/good-to-see-google-knowledge-panel-de.html , 5th Sept. 2021. One of my learnings over the past decade or so that I have been a blogger/social media writer on a variety of topics, is that people and entities form opinions about my main work/role based on which writings/posts of mine they feel are important. That may or may not match how I view my current main work/role. Google Knowledge Panel had earlier used my Notion Press profile, https://notionpress.com/author/164025 , as the source for the description they put up about me. As I have created that profile, I was able to provide a fairly accurate description of my current work/role: "social media writer (blogs and Facebook) mainly on spirituality and religion, but also on worldly topics covering

How Jagadish Vasudev Became Sadhguru | TED Talk 2009, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyPTXHym2ko , around 18 mins. The video seems to have a manually edited/created transcript. The meditation experiences Sadhguru Vasudev describes are very interesting. Transcript snippets (slightly edited for better formatting in this post) of some meditation, meditative trance and inclusiveness (experiencing others/other things as part of oneself) related parts: From 02:27: My sense of attention became like this – if I see a leaf, I could just sit there looking at this leaf, just staring at it for hours. If I sat up in my bed, just staring at the darkness; I could just do this for the whole night. ---- From 05:12: And I went up and sat on a rock there. Till that moment in my life I always thought, this is me (Gestures) and that's somebody else and something else. But for the first time I did not know which is me and which is not me. Suddenly what was me, was just all over the place. The very roc

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. ==========================================     4 min. 36 secs video. Good message from Gaur Gopal Das. 3 Things We Must All Do To Fight Covid 19 | Gaur Gopal Das, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Netr3UjDpE ================ Very interesting! My FB post: https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/3136541753229047 shares Ramana Maharshi's post on distinction between sleep, kevala nirvikalpa samadhi and sahaja nirvikalpa samadhi. =============== Interesting views of Sadhguru Vasudev on China and India. I think the video is provocatively and inaccurately titled. Sadhguru does not say anything about Chinese people turning against their own government, as far as I can ma