Re: Appalam Ittu Paaru by Abhishek Raghuram
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Sundararajan
Aug 24, 2016, 10:38:40 PM8/24/16
to Ranga, CSGRaju, Narasimhan CS, vijaya raja, Abridged Recipients, V.S. Krishnan, Radhakrishnan Mama, Swaminathan V.L., Sambamurti Venkatraman, Shantha Rajan, B. Kumar, KUMAR RAJA, Sridhar Kalyanasundaram, Kalyanasundaram
This was written by Ramana Maharshi. His mother had come to stay with him after realizing the Raman her own son has become enlightened soul and won't return home. He had warned her she would have to live the life of a sadhu along with the few other sadhus who were with him, and not start a kitchen etc.
She agreed and came. Soon however, she wanted to make some papads as she recalled her son used to like these to go with his food in the 'home' days before, and so secretively she arranged to procure the necessary raw materials.
On the day she started the project, and was making the dough, she tried to induce Maharshi to join and help in the making, as he had done in the days before he left home. Maharshi would not relent and when she pleaded he told her: "you make your papad and I will make mine"
He knew she used to like to sing tamil folk songs of high philosophic content, and so decided to compose one on the making of Appalams - papadam
The song in Bhagavan's hand writing
The First two lines of appalam song are the only ones where Sri Bhagavan is using Active voice like 'Try your hand', 'Eat and fulfill',as if to nudge the seeker, but he soon reverts to passive voice-This is his hallmark-Ever impersonal ,only gently suggesting the way it has to be done when someone asks for it.
Sri Bhagavan would never say -'Don't roam the world' 'Heed the word' ,etc.That is simply not the way of the silent one.
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The essence of the song is: “Take the Urat Dal of ego that is kept in the container of the mind. Remove all the dirts like desires and attachments in the sieve of knowledge. Grind it well in the instrument of Self-enquiry and ensure that all traces of ego are scattered to pieces. If you fry it now under the fire of knowledge, what you get is the real Pappad of Self-knowledge. Experience the bliss of this Appalam and you would be liberated.“ - V.S . Krishnan My Thiruppugazh friend
As CSN puts "the composition is all about preparing our raw minds to receive the spiritual knowledg"
यो मां पश्यती सर्वत्र सर्वं च: मयि पश्यतीतस्याहम न प्रणश्यामी स च मे न प्रणश्यति"He who sees me everywhere, and sees everything in Me, he never gets separated from Me, nor do I get separated from him" -Bhagwat Gita Ch. VI verse 30
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