Ekatma Panchakam Written By Bhagavan Ramana

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Ekatma Panchakam,is the only composition, written by Bhagavan Ramana,

originally in Telugu and then translated into Tamil.It was written in

February 1947.

 

Suri Nagamma, requested Bhagavan Ramana once, to compose a poem in

Telugu.Bhagavan first declined saying that the pandits would find a lot of

faults if He were to write poems in Telugu.

 

Suri Nagamma said: Bhagavan!Who can correct your poems.They are all Rishis

words.I won't allow anyone to correct your Telugu poems. " After several

requests, Bhagavan Ramana composed Ekatma Panchakam, in Telugu. This was

done in Venba metre, which was unknown in Telugu grammar.It consists of five

verses.

 

As was expected, some Telugu scholars objected to these poems saying that

these are not as per Telugu metres.Suri Nagamma, then sent them to Velluri

Sivarama Sastri, who said that the composition looks like Vedic Revelations

and so there is no necessity for any corrections, metrically or otherwise.

After this, again some Telugu scholars insisted on metrical corrections and

Bhagavan asked them to do whatever they wanted and left the matter at that.Suri

Nagamma felt extremely sad.Then, with the corrections of scholars, the

proofs came to the Hall on a day.Chinta Dikshitar and Gurram Venkata

Subbramaiah were at the Hall during that time.On seeing the proofs,they

became very indignant and saw to it that Bhagavan's original version went to

print!

 

Bhagavan later recalled: " Venba is one rare metre available only in Tamil.Once

Ganapati Muni tried this in Sanskrit but left it without proceeding

further.Narasinga Rao tried this metre in Telugu later and he was also not

successful.So I was hesitant in the beginning.Anyway I had to do this

because of Suri Nagamma's insistence.It is all right. "

 

Source: Sri Ramansramam - Vazhvum Ninaivum - Tamil - Suri Nagamma.

 

Five Verses In Ekatma Panchakam Are:

 

Forgetting the Self, mistaking the body for the Self, going through

innumerable births and finally finding and being the Self — this is just

like waking up from a dream of wandering all over the world.

 

He who asks ‘Who am I?’ although existing as the Self, is like a drunken man

who asks about his own identity and whereabouts.

 

When in fact the body is in the Self, to think that the Self is within the

insentient body is like thinking that the cinema screen on which a figure is

projected is inside the figure.

 

Has the ornament any existence apart from the gold (of which it is made)?

Where is the body apart from the Self? The ignorant mistake the body for the

Self, but the Jnani, knower of the Self, perceives the Self as the Self.

 

That one Self, the Reality, alone exists for ever. If even the Primal Guru

(Adi Guru, Dakshinamurti) revealed it in silence, who can convey it in

speech?

 

Source: RAMANA MAHARSHI AND THE PATH OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE

 

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