Nonduality
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______________ On the Act and Art of Translation ______________ Sri Sadhu Om Swamigal's writings on Ramana ______________ upadESa undiyAr ____________________ Synopsis of the Story of the futility of the vEdic and other actions to grant Self-Knowledge ____________________ Five Jewels in Praise of the Feet of Sri Ramana ____________________ On the eve of Sri Ramana Jayanti ____________________ Grateful Remembrance of Sri Bhagawan on His Mahasamadhi Day ____________________ New Insights into Self-Enquiry ____________________ The Papadam Song by Sri Bhagawan ____________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ |
Roll the Papad and See: 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 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
GRACE Summary of the
Key Points of the Papadam Song by Bhagawan Sri Ramana
Maharshi |