Ravi S. Iyer: Spiritual

Last updated on 20-Apr-2017 Warning: This post has content related to murder. Readers who prefer not to read such stuff should skip reading the rest of this post. [Update: Man Wanted in Cleveland Facebook Murder Kills Himself, Police Say, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/us/facebook-killer-suicide-erie.html , 18th April 2017. Note that police have stated that so far there is only one known murder victim in this case though Stevens claimed in his Facebook videos that he had killed multiple people. Looks like the crazy and scary saga is over! Lets hope & pray that Facebook does its bit to help prevent such stuff in future by investing in technology and people to monitor any such crazy Facebook live videos, block such Facebook accounts within a short period of time from when such crazy and dangerous intent videos/text are put up, and alert police authorities well before the attention seeker is able to do damage to others. end-Update] Yesterday (17-Apr-2017) was a very distu...

Given below is a recent comment (slightly edited), I made on this Facebook post comment thread: https://www.facebook.com/shubha.kumar/posts/10158246808715538?comment_id=10158250314365538 . [This comment is in response to question of Sri Gangadhara Kini Hosdurg to Sri Chiran Basnet, "I wonder what your views are on the comments of Sri Indulal Shahji the first president of Satya Sai Seva Organisations on Swami in Subtle form".] Gangadhara Kini Hosdurg, Sairam sir! As Chiran Basnet has not yet responded to the question related to Sri Indulal Shah sir, I thought that I could share my views on the matter. Chiran has been a student of Sathya Sai university and then worked as an employee of Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust, due to which perhaps he is reluctant to respond to your question related to the very revered figure of Sri Indulal Shah sir. I too try to avoid bringing the name of Sri Indulal Shah sir in such matters as far as I can (though I have referred to him at times)...

Last updated on 20th Nov. 2018 Given below are the contents of my Facebook post, Sathyameva Jayate! Offensive & disgusting comment of Facebook Fake Id bully & conspirator Venkatesh Babu has been deleted from Mr. Ganti's post,  https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/1891840024365899 , dated April 12th 2017 at 10:09 AM. Yesterday (11th Apr. 2017), I received a regular mailer from Mr. Ganti with subject, "IS SINGAPORE's LARGEST SAI CENTRE (AT LEAST ONCE UPON A TIME) GETTING HIJACKED BY MHALLI GANG?". I have been off his mailing list for many months now (different from a few individual mails he has sent me) and so I was quite surprised to see it. I did not react/respond to it. But I checked whether the Venkatesh Babu/Parthi Resident offensive and disgusting comment dated 27th January 2017, 14:44, which included a misrepresented and fabricated screenshot from one of my posts, viciously maligning a senior office bearer of the Prasanthi Nilayam ashram s...

The contents of shared Facebook post of Shubha Ramesh Kumar, https://www.facebook.com/shubha.kumar/posts/10158226800555538 , given below explains how Shri Karatam Rambabu ran into financial and other problems with respect to the movie, 'Baba Sathya Sai' he wanted and still wants to produce. The question that crops up in my mind is: Can Shri Karatam Rambabu be helped by Parthi Sathya Sai devotees to complete Baba Sathya Sai (Telugu) movie? Note that the problems seem to be two-fold. One is the financial issue. The second is that some of the rights of the movie now belong to Muddenahalli group!!! The second part is the most worrying one for me. Muddenahalli group may try to use their considerable foreign-donations powered financial muscle to complete the movie but with Madhu Baba (Madhusudan Naidu) and his devotees featured in it with their FALSE CLAIM that Madhu Baba is communicating with invisible so-called subtle body of Sathya Sai in Muddenahalli!!! That would create more ...

Last updated on 11th April 2017 Pics Courtesy: Facebook post of PM of India, Shri Narendra Modi, https://www.facebook.com/pg/narendramodi/photos/?tab=album&album_id=10158587068615165 Ravi: Just wonderful to see Australian PM and Indian PM together paying respects/worshiping at Akshardham temple. Very nice gesture from Australian PM. Here is the website of Akshardharm: http://akshardham.com/ Some extracts from its wiki page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akshardham_(Delhi) , are given below: Akshardham or Swaminarayan Akshardham complex is a Hindu mandir, and a spiritual-cultural campus in New Delhi, India. Also referred to as Akshardham Temple or Swaminarayan Akshardham, the complex displays millennia of traditional Hindu and Indian culture, spirituality, and architecture. The temple, which attracts approximately 70 percent of all tourists who visit Delhi, was officially opened on 6 November 2005 by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. It sits near the banks o...

Last updated on 11th April 2017 Today I saw a sarcasm joke Facebook post having cartoon pics of a teacher telling a student, "You failed the test!" and the student responding, "No! You failed to educate me." Given below are my share comments on my Facebook share of it, https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/1890924751124093 . As sarcasm and as a joke, the share cartoon pics are OK. But this reminds me of one unhappy incident that I had in the Sai university as the C++ test evaluator for M.Tech. (Comp. Sc.) entrance exams sometime around 2005 or so (I don't recall the year clearly; it could be a year earlier perhaps or perhaps even two years later). The C++ program test was a crucial component of the M.Tech. (CS) entrance exam and had acquired a reputation of being one of the key tests which differentiated those who made it to M.Tech. (CS) and those who didn't. The number of those taking the test - around 40 max, if I recall correctly, and a...

Last updated on 17th April 2017 Minor update on 11th Aug. 2026 10 - 11 Aug 2026 Update:  Based on suggestions made in this post, a n updated standalone post was created in Aug 2026: Statements of Belief in God that is either Compatible with Science OR Not in Conflict with Science - Omni-God faiths like Hinduism and Christianity . =============================================== Yesterday (April 8th 2017), I had sent over email and put up on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/notes/ravi-s-iyer/crisp-statements-of-belief-in-god-that-is-compatible-with-science/1889831711233397/ , the following contents: Crisp Statements of Belief in Universal/Multi-Faith God that is either Compatible with Science OR Not in Conflict with Science Today, I made a major update to this blog post of mine, https://iami1.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/crisp-statements-of-belief-in-god-that-is-compatible-with-science/ , and so felt it appropriate to share its contents below on this Facebook post/note. Any co...