Talk:V. R. Krishna Iyer

DOB/age
The Hindu has Iyer born in 1915 and dying in 2014 at the age of 100. The article is currently following this. Multiple sources agree he celebrated his 100th birthday; The Free Press Journal has him born November 15, 1914. The Hindu also has him retire "at the age of 65 on November 14, 1980." Spicemix (talk) 15:37, 26 December 2014 (UTC)


 * I had cleared the air on this confusion once earlier, when I added his bio-page on the ex-judges link on the Supreme Court site, to the article. Can't be more authentic than this official version. Also, as I once again repeat here what I had mentioned in my edit summary, when you are born, that is your first birthday. So, when you turn 99, you are celebrating your 100th birthday. - SourceOhWatch (&#2360;&#2381;&#2352;&#2379;&#2340;&#2307;&#32;&#2313;&#2357;&#2366;&#2330;) 19:06, 26 December 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by SourceOhWatch (SrotahaUvacha) (talk • contribs)
 * Thanks for all your work on the article. Could you kindly post the Supreme Court date of birth link, and text if possible, here? Spicemix (talk) 20:51, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I was surprised by the comment that when one is born, that's one's first birthday. Maybe the tradition is different in India, but in the West one's first birthday is celebrated on the first anniversary of one's birth. TimidGuy (talk) 15:17, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Views on meditation
This cannot be a section in itself. Interest in it was at best peripheral compared to the significant achievements of the protagonist, and it remained on his 'wish list' as a suggestion/proposal and did not gain traction and become a mainstream view/method. Thus undue weight cannot be given to this view of his. Moreover, along with 'Transcendental Meditation' he gives credit to other 'Yogic Kriyas' (methods of Yoga) for aiding him in his work and life. He writes, in his own words in the following lines of his autobiography:

"Mahesh Yogi, Muktananda, Aurobindo, Yogananda, Vivekananda deepened my understanding..." (p.272) "...association with the Brahmakumari Movement helped me...involve myself in yoga...for years" (p.272) "...experience came to me from Kriya Yoga...of Paramhamsa Yogananda (which) I gathered in moments of meditative silence" (p.272) "...among others... I came across Satya Sai Baba" (p. 273)

Thus, the 'Yoga method of meditation' does however deserve a mention in parallel with his other revolutionary ideas which he did manage to introduce into the Indian legal system, and so I shall move the mention of this to the section of his judgeship, citing the following lines from his autobiography again:

"if a judge practices (it) ...his mental poise will be balanced and his higher values will have a better judgement" (p. 267) "in one of my judgments I have recommended this ...for prisoners"(p.267) - SourceOhWatch (&#2360;&#2381;&#2352;&#2379;&#2340;&#2307;&#32;&#2313;&#2357;&#2366;&#2330;) (talk) 12:36, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Please bear in mind that the content was not in a "section in itself" – it was there in a new section to be added to and developed. All of the spiritual interests you mention here can and should be included, because currently the article has an imbalance toward his public life at the expense of his personal life. Spicemix (talk) 12:08, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
 * That sounds quite reasonable. TimidGuy (talk) 15:15, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

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