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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