Ravi S. Iyer: Spiritual

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. ========================================== Good to see this faith in God flowering in Russia, in various ways with Hinduism (I think the shared post is of ISKCON sect) being one of them. Shared FB post: https://www.facebook.com/HinduRuss/posts/1233549617031936 ------------------------ I am very saddened to know about the passing away of Shri Sudhakar Ram of Mastek/Majesco. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudhakar_Ram "Sudhakar Ram (8 September 1960 – 8 November 2020), was the Group CEO and Managing Director of Mastek, a software company. He was awarded CNBC Asia's ‘India Business Leader of the Year’ in 2007." During the days I was a technical consultant ...

Today is Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba's birthday. So I am going down memory lane reliving some of the joy and inspiration I was blessed to receive from my beloved and revered Gurudev, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. I moved to Puttaparthi in beginning of Oct. 2002, after having retired from commercial work in end Aug. 2002, and was offering voluntary service (not staff) in Prasanthi Nilayam ashram (Radio Sai and Book Trust) during the period of the two discourse clips given below, one of which is from 20th Oct. 2002 discourse and another from 4th Nov. 2002. These discourse clips revive memories of basking in the wonderful spiritual ambience Bhagavan's physical presence and discourses would create in Sai Kulwant Hall. He would start by referring to us devotees as Premaswarupulaara (embodiments of love) or Divyaswarupulaara (embodiments of divinity). That itself was so inspirational. The Avatar of the age declaring that all of us (our reality) are embodiments of love and divinity! ...

[The actual interview starts after around 4 mins into the video.] Amitabh Bachchan 1984 Interview (in Hindi), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLRfoO3gYR0 . Around 6 mins. 28 secs. into the video, the discussion turns to Amitabh Bachchan's doing Sabarimala pilgrimage. I was not aware of him having done this pilgrimage and so was pleasantly surprised but could not really believe it at first viewing of the video. I thought maybe I had not understood it correctly! Amitabh explains the 41 day fast that has to be done for Sabarimala, Swami Ayyappa pilgramage to the reporter (perhaps from Canada). The reporter asks Amitabh in a very surprised tone whether he conformed to all the requirements that he explained for the 41 day fast and Amitabh says "Jee ha" - Yes (madam)! I tried to dig up some more info. about this Sabarimala pilgrimage that he did.  This tweet photo (black-and-white pic) shows Amitabh with the Irumudikkettu on his head! - https://twitter.com/VikasbansalEF/status...

Last updated on 20th July 2021 My Jan. 2020 post: Interesting to see top ten Internet search ranking of 'Who am I? I am I ...' book for queries on answer to existential reality question: who am I?, https://ravisiyer.blogspot.com/2020/01/interesting-to-see-top-ten-search.html , showed that search ranking for my book was good for above mentioned search term. But if the word 'reality' were removed from the search term making it: answer to existential question: who am I?, then Google Search did not list the book in its first fifty results that I checked! Amazon India link for the 'Who am I? I am I ...' book:  https://www.amazon.in/Who-Ultimate-Existential-conversation-iami1-wordpress-com/dp/164650349X/  . I am happy to see that Google search results ranking has significantly improved now for the last mentioned search term (but without colon : as I felt that may not be used so much by people) as compared to what it was in Jan. 2020 . For search term: existential que...

Youtube video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl9izOvsUJg Screenshot showing view count is given below. [To open pic in larger resolution, right-click on pic followed by open link (NOT image) in new tab/window. In new tab/window you may have to click on pic to zoom in.] =========================== In response to a comment on associated Facebook post https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2983818635168027 , I wrote (slightly edited): Wow! That's some experience Dr. Hislop had, which you had the good fortune to hear personally from him --name-snipped--. Thanks for sharing. ... I had read about a somewhat similar experience he had written about in Indian context.

Last updated on 5th Nov. 2020 Update: As of 2nd Nov. 2020, the Knowledge Panel has the death date as 1995.  --- end Update --- Knowledge Panel pic is given below, and its link is: https://g.co/kgs/8tQv7f . I request readers who have some answers to questions below to please share them with me. 1. When did John Hislop pass away? 2. I presume that the John Hislop who wrote books about horse racing ("Breeding for racing", "Flat Race Riding", "Hardly a Jockey") and the book, "The Brigadier", all of which are referred to in his Knowledge Panel and its extended information, is a different person from Sathya Sai devotee community leader John Hislop. Is my presumption right? 3. Many years ago, I read both "My Baba and I" and "Conversations with Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba" and benefited greatly from them. Has he written any other books on Sathya Sai Baba (e.g. "Seeking Divinity")? 4. Did John Hislop have any children/heirs...

Last updated on 28th Dec. 2020 28th Dec. 2020: Noted that now Google Search for: ravi s iyer  or  Ravi S. Iyer shows the Knowledge Panel on the right (earlier it used to show a 'see results about' message with link that led to the Knowledge Panel). The associated pics are given below. [To open pic in larger resolution, right-click on pic followed by open link (NOT image) in new tab/window. In new tab/window you may have to click on pic to zoom in.] ---- end 28th Dec. 2020 update ----- Early morning today (29th Oct. 2020) I noted that the Google Knowledge Panel info. associated with my name - Ravi S. Iyer - now has my profile pic which is from the 1990s. I have chosen not to share later pics of mine publicly. The Google Knowledge Panel link: https://g.co/kgs/Geqcn7 Given below is the pic of the full Google Knowledge Panel. The results window for Google search for Ravi S. Iyer (or ravi s iyer) also shows the profile pic (in smaller size). Clicking on the Ravi S. Iyer link on rig...