Ravi S. Iyer: Spiritual

Last updated on 27th June 2018 Given below are the relevant contents of the updated iami1 wordpress blog page: Free Blogbook Download; Free Reuse of Author’s Content, https://iami1.wordpress.com/consolidated-blog-content-document/ . Users/visitors/readers (referred to from now on as simply users) are welcome to do ***free*** download of NOT-FOR-PROFIT-for-author Blogbook documents linked below having most of the content of this iami1.wordpress.com blog. Users can print and even sell the printed book/document if they want – details of that permission are given in the initial part of the document. All of this author’s, Ravi S. Iyer’s, content in the blogbook documents below can be ***freely reused*** with details of the free reuse permission/license being specified in the initial part of the document. Note that while I have done some level of checking for errors, I have not spent and don’t want to spend too much time on it. I expect readers to be indulgent with my errors, perhap...

Note that this post is copy-pasted from my recent post in another blog of mine:  https://iami1.wordpress.com/2018/04/08/divine-revelation-gems-from-chandogya-upanishad-chapter-6-dialogue-between-uddalaka-and-svetaketu/ , and is a smaller and modified version of a June 2010 document of mine, whose links have been shared on this blog. The Upanishads (also called Vedanta) are toward the end of the Vedas, the holy scripture of the Hindus. I must also say here that I am a Hindu. It is my fervent belief that these Upanishads contain wonderful gems of divine revelation about the mysteries of the universe and about divine power (formless God). Given below are some such wonderful gems of divine revelation from Chandogya Upanishad, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandogya_Upanishad . I have included extracts of Chandogya Upanishad from Prof. Max Muller’s Sacred Books of East, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Books_of_the_East , (spelt as Khândogya Upanishad in it) as that is out...

Given below is a mail conversation I had recently with a USA based correspondent who is an atheist/agnostic, and who is referred to as USAC1 below. USAC1 was OK with public sharing of his responses (slightly edited). Readers, especially atheist/agnostic readers, are welcome to contribute to this conversation (anonymously via email/FB private message to me or in their own name). Ravi S. Iyer wrote to USAC1 (slightly edited): Do various groups of atheists and agnostics have statements of values that they follow, and which children of such atheist and agnostic groups, as well as other adults who are not exposed to these groups, can refer to, to learn and/or understand the values held dear by those atheist and agnostic groups? For theist groups, there is usually some mother organization that lays out the key beliefs and values. So it is easy to know the ideals they have, even if many of their adherents fail to practice those ideals well. I would very much like to write a few publi...

V.R. Ganti sir put up this Facebook post, https://www.facebook.com/vr.ganti.1/posts/10212097264851546 , recently having a pic of Shri B.N. Narasimhamurthy walking in a foreign country's (Switzerland according to this post of Terry Reis Kennedy, https://www.facebook.com/terry.reiskennedy/posts/10216275955990363 ) road with an attire that seemed to be more appropriate for what Mr. Ganti terms as 'Bollywood Actor'. Mr. Ganti writes in the post (BNNM refers to B.N. Narasimhamurthy): At onetime BNNM was considered an example of SIMPLICITY and today this guy thinks and dresses like a teenager. TYAGAJEEVI by his character (is) supposed to have detached himself from worldly pleasures but this DAIVA DROHI is full of desires and now those desires are getting satisfied one by one it appears. --- end extract from Mr. Ganti's post --- Given below is part of a comment exchange on the above post of Mr. Ganti: Ravi S. Iyer wrote (slightly edited): Sad to see hero baazi (behav...

In the not-for-profit-for-author book from my iami1.wordpress.com blog that I am planning to print using a self-publishing agency, I have two to three articles/posts which have significant amount of text extracts from wikipedia and wikiquotes. I intend to include a page at the beginning of the book to deal with the license issue for these articles/posts. Perhaps I will title that page as "CC-BY-SA (additional) license for following pages in this book which use significant extracts from wikipedia and wikiquotes". The draft version of the contents of that page are as follows: The following articles/posts in this book use significant amount of text extracts from wikipedia and wikiquotes: 1) Conversation on 'secular parenting' & religion between USA scientist & Indian technologist, https://iami1.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/conversation-on-secular-parenting-and-religion-between-usa-scientist-and-indian-technologist2.pdf 2) Some Famous Scientists’ Views o...

Dear reader, I am now in the process of preparing a document which I will try to publish and print as my first hard copy book (as against pdf documents/ebooks shared for download) using a self-publishing agency (in India). This hard copy book (and soft copy version too) will be based mainly on contents of my blog: iami1.wordpress.com . Now some posts of that blog have contents from others for which I received their approval for sharing on the free blog. But I had not asked approval for printed hard copy book/document. I have asked some such persons (contributors) about whether they would be interested in including their content in the printed book too. I have first provided them the details of their content contribution which I am considering for inclusion in the book. And then informed them of how I plan to make my NOT-FOR-PROFIT for author statement. And then asked whether they would be interested to have their contribution included in this printed book. Given below is what ...

Interesting Awareness training story from Osho, https://oshostories.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/footsteps-of-the-thoughts/ . The overall story (paraphrased in my own words with just one or two quotes from the above link) as narrated in above link is as follows: A king in Japan was unhappy with the lack of awareness in his only son. He sent his son to the awareness master who had taught him awareness, with the condition that he (son) could succeed him (father) as king only if he learned awareness well enough from the master. The son went to the master who assigned him cleaning work in the commune. The master started hitting the young prince in the back with his stick without any warning. The prince had to take a lot of such beatings from the master. Eventually the prince acquired one stage of the learning expected of the prince where his awareness/alertness became so sharp that he would sense that the master is trying to hit him in the back and prevent him from doing so by catching ...