Ravi S. Iyer: Spiritual

Last updated on 6 Sep. 2024 Readers may want to vist my updated post on another blog: Gita web app (Next.js, open source) v1.4.1: Improved User Interface including in Settings page; Notes for students & self-learners .  Some 'Quick Info' from it: Web App deployed at:  https://gita-rsi.vercel.app/ Github repo of web app:  https://github.com/ravisiyer/gita

यस्त्वात्मरतिरेव स्यादात्मतृप्तश्च मानवः। आत्मन्येव च सन्तुष्टस्तस्य कार्यं न विद्यते।।3.17।।   - Bhagavad Gita Chapter 3, Verse 17: https://gita-rsi.vercel.app/verse/136 But for that man who rejoices only in the Self, who is satisfied with the Self and is content in the Self alone, indeed there is nothing to do. - Translation in English by Swami Sivananda -------- But the man whose delight is only in the Self, who is satisfied with the Self, who rejoices in the Self, for him nothing remains to be accomplished. - Translation in English by Swami Adidevananda -------- Ravi: IMHO, the key words in this verse about Atma are: Atma rathihi - rejoice in the Self (alone/only) Atma thrupthaha - content in the Self Atma santhushtah - satisfied in the Self (alone/only) IMHO, such an attainment where a person rejoices in, and is content with, the Atma/Self alone/only (and does not desire anything else (for himself/herself)), is an awesome spiritual achievement. [The person may still pray for h...

Last updated on 4 Jul. 2024 A note from my meditation session today (1 Jul. 2024): In my past notes, I have referred to the core of my being as awareness-I. For example, see my post: Viewing Awareness-I as essence or part of God in my meditation and trying to dissolve or merge into God (experience oneness with God), https://ravisiyer.blogspot.com/2023/06/viewing-awareness-i-as-essence-or-part.html , June 2023. In today's session, I felt that I could say that the core of my being is a beingness, an am-ness (like I-am-ness but I felt I should drop the I to better describe it and so am using the term am-ness). [In the contents below, I am using the words 'mainly beingness' as in a state of 'only beingness', thoughts of the body are not there.] While in that state of mainly beingness, when I choose to be aware of my body, I instinctively know that I am not the body. I don't think it is a belief. Yes, the teachings of scripture and of spiritual masters about Atma bei...