Poppadum

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Miles wrote:

>> This list is huge, but few members actively

contribute, which is a bit sad.

 

>Why should there be sadness? Unlike many other lists,

>this list neither

>encourages nor expects philosophical diatribe but

>rather practice of Bhagavan's teachings.

 

Yes; some of us scrounge around a variety of "groups

like this". As the man who bigamously married seven

women explained to the judge "Please your Honour, I

was trying to find a good one". We only come for the

food; even a morsel tells us whether it's good.

Without the hospitality shown to empty beggars, we

lose interest.

Which reminds me- could SKS (some kind self) plese

give me Ramana's recipe for poppadum? His mother

Alagammal was making it one day and asked him to help,

when he wrote it as (I think) a poem.

 

Nasrudin

 

 

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Dear Nasrudin Ji,

 

Nasrudin <nasrudin3 (AT) (DOT) co.nz> wrote:

 

>>> Which reminds me- could SKS (some kind self) please give me Ramana's recipe

for poppadum? His mother Alagammal was making it one day and asked him to help,

when he wrote it as (I think) a poem.Nasrudin <<<

 

A translation of the pappadam (appalam in tamil) song picked from the web is

appended. Pl also see the website: http://www.nonduality.com/shankr11.htm

 

om gurave namah

suri

 

 

Roll the Papad and See: ("appaLam iTTu paaru" in tamil)a verse on 8-fold Yoga

and Self-Enquiry by Sri Bhagawan

or

The Papadam Song, by Sri Bhagawan

Translated by R.K. Shankar

Dear All,

Have you heard of an Indian food item called 'Papad'? It is a side-dish for our

food made of rice or wheat. Recently, in Chennai, the city of my living in

South India, a 'jaz' music group sang the song in Tamil 'Appalam Ittup Paaru.'

This song title means 'Roll the Papad and see.'

In fact, the flour is rolled using a metallic or wooden roller and made into a

round rolled flat flour cake and fried in oil and served as a side-dish along

with the main course of food items. This singing by the music group was

reported in the English local daily newspaper called 'The Hindu', I think, last

month. The point is, this song was composed by Sri Bhagawan, linking each step

in the preparation of Papad to 8-fold Yoga and Self-Enquiry

Yours in Sri Bhagawan RK Shankar

Papadam Song by Sri Bhagawan

Translated by R.K. Shankar

Try rolling the Urad Dhall or Rice Flour into Papadam, frying and then serving

the Papadam - Eating that, exhaust your desire to eat Papadam.

Without longing for the things of the world and wandering in the world,

according to the One Language of Silence, not having any other language of even

nearly equal greatness, that is the Substance, communicated by the True Teacher

(Lord Siva Dakshinamurti) who is Existence-Knowledge-Bliss, without speaking.

 

Try rolling the Urad Dhall or Rice Flour into Papadam, frying and then serving

the Papadam - Eating that, exhaust your desire to eat Papadam.

Pounding and crushing into powder as 'I am not', in the mortar of Wisdom-Enquiry

that is 'Who am I?', the Black Gram Grain, that is the identification as the

Self, growing in this field of five sheaths, that are not the Self.

Try rolling the Urad Dhall or Rice Flour into Papadam, frying and then serving

the Papadam - Eating that, exhaust your desire to eat Papadam.

With the the sap of 'pirandai' (a plant) that will be the Satsang (the divine

congregation), along with the 'cumin seed' and 'pepper' that become

(respectively) 'equanimity' and 'steadfast self-restraint', and with the 'salt'

that will be the 'indifference' (1) to all enjoyment of this and all other

worlds, and (2) even to all enjoined ceremonial acts, on account of their utter

futility in relation to apprehending the Supreme Self), mixing also the

'asafoetida' that is the 'existing good impression',

Try rolling the Urad Dhall or Rice Flour into Papadam, frying and then serving

the Papadam - Eating that, exhaust your desire to eat Papadam.

Incessantly pounding upon the stone-mind, unwaveringly with the inwardly facing

(iron) pestle as 'I-I', with tiresomeness continually ceasing, and with abiding

happiness, with the wooden or stainless steel rolling pin of calmness, on the

wooden board of equanimity,

Try rolling the Urad Dhall or Rice Flour into Papadam, frying and then serving

the Papadam - Eating that, exhaust your desire to eat Papadam.

In the endless vessel that will be the Symbol of the Supreme Silence, in 'That'

ghee of the ParaBrahman (the Supreme Self), welling up from within by the Fire

of Gnosis (born of and kept up by Self-Enquiry), frying every day as 'I am

That', the Self becoming the self (by the Self emerging from within following

upon the ego merging into It), for eating,

Try rolling the Black Gram Flour into 'Self-stuffed' Papadam, frying and then

serving the Papadam, and - eating that (Papadam), exhaust your desire for the

things of the world.

TRANSLATION OF PAPADAM SONG BY SRI BHAGAWAN COMPLETED THUS BY HIS GRACER.K. Shankar

Summary of the Key Points of the Papadam Song by Bhagawan Sri Ramana Maharshi 1

We should not wander in the world longing for its things. 2 The 5 sheaths are

the physical, vital, mental, intellectual and blissful sheaths respectively.

These 5 sheaths are not the Self. But, in these 5 sheaths grows an

identification 'I am this.' 3 We must enquire into this identification by

raising the inward wisdom query 'Who am I?'. That will break and crush our

identification with these 5 sheaths as 'I am not'. 4 We must constantly be in

divine congregation, wherever we live and wherever we are. 5 We must develop

the attitude of being equal to all events. And, we must be steadfast in our

self-restraint. 6 We must be indifferent to all enjoyment of this and also all

other worlds like heaven. (Not the Kingdom of Heaven of the Holy Bible) 7 We

must also

be indifferent to all scripturally enjoined ceremonial acts. Because, none of

these can assist us in any way in our apprehending our Real Self. 8 We must

constantly mix our existing good impression with equanimity of mind and

indifference by resorting constantly to divine congregations. 9 The attitude of

being equal to all events is equanimity. Then, all agitations born of

impressions will subside. And, that calmness of mind we must develop. 10 . Our

weariness must continually cease. And, we must always abide with enduring

happiness. 11 We must incessantly and unwaveringly pound our mind by inwardly

muttering 'I-I'. This we must do with equanimity, calmness, lack of weariness

and happiness. 12 Fire of Wisdom will then begin to burn inside us. And, that

fire will burn up the dross of our ego. 13 Then, in the place of ego, there

will arise the Self. And, the constant agitations of the

ego will then be replaced by the Supreme endless Silence of the Self. 14 Now, we

must constantly maintain the attitude 'I am That'. Thus, the ego will

permanently be dissolved in the Self. 15 And then, even our ordinary life

awareness will be stuffed with the awareness of the Self. 16 And thus, all our

worldly desires will be exhausted. 17 This is the substance of the Silent

Communication of Lord Siva as Dakshinamurthi to His 4 disciples, who were

mind-born sons of Brahma, the Hindu God of Creation. 18 And, Lord Siva is the

Existence-Knowledge-Bliss, that is the Supreme Self. 19 And, no language of

words is equal to this One Supreme language of Silence. 20 Lord Siva teaches

this Supreme Silence. And, Satguru Sri Ramana ever abided in this Silence. We

must also abide in the Supreme Silence of the Self Yours in Sri Bhagawan RK

Shankar

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