Ravi S. Iyer: Spiritual

Last updated on 4th Jan. 2023 Given below are contents of two of my recent Facebook posts: From  https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/pfbid0LbiY651YyqJn7MqFQ3ZTJGHJSPUp7f6KJVXLikweaFrYUuCZwoGXtKsSwzLx4mQxl : Wadali Brothers singing what seems to be a Sufi song in Punjabi. The video shows a series of pics which are quite fascinating, capturing life of common people (mostly Muslim going by their dress) in what seems to be mostly Indian subcontinent (India and/or Pakistan and perhaps some other countries of this area) though initial pics of whirling Sufi dervishes may be from other countries/areas like Turkey. The audio stops at around 7 min. 15 secs. Echoes of Sufi Chants - Kafi Bulleh Shah (Ni Main Hunay Sunya) Wadali Brothers, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM-jmPOpsHM , 8 min. 49 secs. The lyrics with English translation are provided here: http://qawwal.blogspot.com/2015/02/ni-main-hunay-suneya-kafis-bulleh-shah.html . But in this song rendition, only some lines of the...

Last updated on 4th Jan. 2023 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 may have to copy-paste links from this post onto a browser link box and then browse to that link. ========================================== Around 1966 footage of Tibetan Buddhist church (sect) masters with commentary: Raw footages of Dalia lama, Gyalwa karmapa, Sakya Rinpoche, Ling rinpochea and mamy more., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rMtFZrMKP0 , 15 min. 33 secs. The young Dalai Lama's teachers followed by Dalia Lama himself can be seen from around 9 mins in the video. ------------------ On FB post: https://www.facebook.com/terry.reiskennedy/posts/pfbid02X1s6Z4kDvsUkYUQQQW67m3FignDtQg2mApfdRhJw9CDZGWjo6C2DSM7YcqCUCS3il , I wrote (slightly edited): Just in case you were not aware, the Phuktal monastery, https://en.wikipedia.org...

Srimad Bhagavatam (Bhagavat Purana) Skandha (Canto) 3, Adhyaya (chapters) 18 and 19 relate the challenge for battle issued by powerful demon Hiranyaksha to Varaha (boar) avatar of Vishnu, followed by demon Hiranyaksha being killed by Lord Varaha. [Elaborate Wikipedia page on Lord Varaha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varaha and on Hiranyaksha, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiranyaksha .] The links for above chapters and verses are: 1) Bhagavata Purana Motilal Banarasidass (only English),  https://archive.org/details/BhagavataPuranaMotilalEnglish/page/n324/mode/1up?view=theater (viewer page 325, book page 320) [starting verse] A few extracts from above link with some comments from me within [Ravi: ...comment(s)...] , are given below: Chapter 18, verse 4. [Ravi: Hiranyaksha taunting Lord Varaha and challenging him to battle:]   Are you employed by our enemies for destroying us? You kill Asuras by Maya and thus conquer them by fraudulent means. Oh dunce, I shall wipe out the s...