Ravi S. Iyer: Spiritual

Last updated on 6th Sept. 2020 Warning: Readers who prefer not to read about horrendous violence may please skip reading this post. New Zealand Mosque Gunman "Intended To Kill As Many People As He Could", https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/new-zealand-mosque-gunman-brenton-tarrant-unmoved-as-survivors-recount-ordeal-2284136 , 24th Aug. 2020 The article states that the maniacal white supremacist killer "further stated the attacks were motivated by his ideological beliefs and he intended to instil fear into those he described as 'invaders' including the Muslim population or more generally non-European immigrants." I recall this horrendous event vividly as I forced myself around that time (15th March 2019, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_mosque_shootings ) to view the horrific videos (recording of his live stream videos, and other media report videos) of the killings. I knew that I would get emotionally disturbed by watching the maniacal mass murderer w...

Padmanabha Swamy Temple to be managed by ex-royal family, rules Supreme Court, https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/supreme-court-upholds-the-rights-of-travancore-royal-family-to-administer-kerala-s-padmanabhaswamy-temple/story-0Ts5b1lxLfD5QOgPXGIYcM.html , 13th July 2020. For more about Padmanabhaswamy temple, please visit:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padmanabhaswamy_Temple . Ravi: I don't know about the history of this matter and the details. But I am very interested in this matter as my great-grandfather Thuravoor Narayana Sastrigal was generously patronized by then royals of this same Travancore royal family. He was even given a house close to Padmanabhaswamy temple by the then king, for his services as a Sanskrit scholar and teacher to the Travancore kingdom then. [The wiki introduction extract given below says the kingdom was from 870 to 1949, however a label on the top-right of the same wiki page states, "Kingdom of Travancore" "1729–1949"....

Last updated on 20th July 2020 These are some thoughts of mine. What is the truth of existence, and the whole truth? Yes, feeling the unchanging awareness/consciousness in one, which is ever peaceful, and which one intuitively realizes is our real identity which one ***feels*** will persist even after death of the body, is a great truth, which has been talked about by masters like Ramana Maharishi (of the 20th century and so somebody who is not that far back in time) and many, many others. I think this is what many refer to as self-realization (realizing that our truth is not the changing body & mind which will perish one day but that our truth is the unchanging, ever peaceful awareness/consciousness in us). But is that the whole truth? Is there more to the reality of human existence? For me as a Hindu, this is where the core messages of Hindu scripture become important guiding lights. Karma, re-incarnation, Avatars and power of prayer to, sometimes at least, result in d...

This post has moved to https://tnarayanasasthri.blogspot.com/2023/04/pics-related-to-my-ancestor-turavur.html on 14 Apr. 2023.

Readers may want to see my recent post on another blog of mine: draftable.com has a great online tool for comparing text of 2 PDF files,  https://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2020/06/draftablecom-has-great-online-tool-for.html . Note that such comparison is needed, at times, while self-publishing books (inner contents of book is typically provided as pdf file to self-publishing platform company).

Last updated on 5th Sept 2020 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. ========================================== Panch sir is now USA National Science Foundation Head! The tweet in message below is dated 19th June 2020. So this information is over a week old but I came to know of it only today. I had known about his nomination by USA President Donald Trump some time back but not of the USA Senate ***unanimous*** confirmation. ---Contents of message I received --- Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan has been appointed by the President of USA as the chairman of National Science Foundation of USA. He was a Balvikas Student from Tamilnadu. Served as the One of the Zonal Presidents of Sri Sathya Sai International Or...

Last updated on 14th June 2020 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. ========================================== [Entries below are copied from My April 2020 FB posts on novel coronavirus 2019 (SARS-CoV-2) / COVID-19,  https://ravisiyermisc.blogspot.com/2020/05/my-april-2020-fb-posts-on-novel.html . Only entries which seem to have a spiritual or Puttaparthi angle to it have been copied.] I was debating whether I should share this publicly. It is somewhat distressing news. But I think that right info. being provided on the matter is appropriate and I think the shared post seems to have correct info. about the district authorities view of the matter. The shared post has a Telugu language video...