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Num encontro por Zoom de ‘Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK’ em 8 de Janeiro de 2022, Michael James fala sobre o Pallavi (Refrão), Anupallavi (Refrão Suplementar), e a Primeira Estrofe de Appaḷa Pāṭṭu:

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Appaḷa Pāṭṭu, 1ª estrofe 

Pallavi (Refrão)

appaḷa miṭṭup pāru - attaic cāppiṭṭuṉ ṉāśaiyait tīru.

Padacchēdam (separação das palavras): appaḷam iṭṭu pāru; attai sāppiṭṭu, uṉ āśaiyai tīru.

Fazendo appalam, veja - comendo-o, ponha fim ao seu desejo.

Paráfrase explicativa:

Fazendo appaḷam [da maneira prescrita nesta canção], veja [a si mesmo como você realmente é, quer dizer, como 'eu sou eu']; comendo-o [experienciando-se a si mesmo como ‘só o próprio eu é o próprio eu’], ponha fim ao seu desejo [por qualquer coisa que não seja você mesmo].

Anupallavi (Refrão Suplementar)

ibbhuvi taṉṉi lēṅgit tiriyāmaṟ saṯbhō dasukha saṯguru vāṉavar seppādu soṉṉa tattuva māhiṟa voppuyar villā vōrmoṙi yiṉpaḍi —      (ap)

Padacchēdam (separação das palavras): i-b-bhuvi taṉṉil ēṅgi tiriyāmal, sat-bhōda-sukha saṯguru āṉavar seppādu soṉṉa tattuvam āhiṟa, oppu uyarvu illā ōr moṙiyiṉpaḍi, (appaḷam iṭṭu pāru; …)

Sem vagar ansiando neste mundo, de acordo com a linguagem única sem igual ou maior, que é a verdade que aquele que é sadguru, existência-consciência-felicidade, falou sem falar, (fazendo appaḷam, veja; …)

Paráfrase explicativa:

Sem vagar ansiando [com desejo de prazeres] neste mundo, de acordo com a linguagem única [ou seja, o silêncio], [que é] sem [nada que seja] igual ou maior [do que ela], [e] que é o tattva [realidade, verdade ou princípio verdadeiro] que aquele que é sadguru [nomeadamente Dakshinamurti], [que é] sat-bhōda-sukha [sat-cit-ānanda ou existência-consciência-felicidade], falou sem falar, (fazendo appaḷam, veja; comendo-o, ponha fim ao seu desejo.)

Estrofe 1

tāṉallā vaiṅkōśa kṣētra midilvaḷar tāṉeṉṉu māṉamān tāṉya vuḷundai nāṉāreṉ ñāṉa vicārat tirigaiyi ṉāṉalla veṉḏṟē yuḍaittup poḍittu —      (ap)

Padacchēdam (separação das palavras): tāṉ allā aim kōśa kṣētram idil vaḷar ‘tāṉ’ eṉṉum māṉam ām tāṉya uḷundai nāṉ ār eṉ ñāṉa-vicāra tirigaiyil ‘nāṉ alla’ eṉḏṟē uḍaittu poḍittu, (appaḷam iṭṭu pāru; …)

No moinho-de-mão da investigação-consciência, quem sou eu, quebrando e pulverizando os grãos pretos de grama, que são a identificação 'eu próprio' que cresce neste, o campo de cinco bainhas, que não é eu mesmo, como 'não eu' , (fazendo appaḷam, veja; …)

Paráfrase explicativa:

No moinho-de-mão de jñāna-vicāra [consciência-investigação], [que é a prática de estar profundamente auto-atento para ver] quem sou eu, quebrando e pulverizando os grãos pretos de grama, que são o māna [apego, identificação, orgulho ou presunção] 'eu' [o dēhābhimāna, a orgulhosa identificação e apego 'eu sou este campo de cinco bainhas'] que cresce [e floresce] nisto, o campo de cinco bainhas [ou seja, corpo, vida, mente, intelecto e vontade], que não é eu mesmo, [separando assim todo aquele campo de cinco bainhas de si mesmo] como 'não eu', (fazendo appaḷam, veja; comendo-o, ponha fim ao seu desejo.)

Ao refletir sobre esta primeira estrofe Michael explica o significado e as implicações de várias outras passagens dos escritos de Bhagavan, incluindo:

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Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu: https://happinessofbeing.blogspot.com...

Upadēśa Undiyār: https://happinessofbeing.blogspot.com...

Uma cópia audio mais clara deste vídeo pode ser ouvida em Sri Ramana Teachings podcast (https://ramanahou.podbean.com ) ou baixada de https://ramanahou.podbean.com/e/appal...

E uma cópia de áudio mais compactada no formato Opus (que pode ser ouvida no media player VLC e alguns outros aplicativos) pode ser baixada em https://mediafire.com/file/m1yyfiz9epdsk1d

Depois de falar sobre esta primeira estrofe do Appaḷa Pāṭṭu Michael responde a perguntas sobre este e outros aspetos dos ensinamentos de Bhagavan, particularmente a prática de auto-investigação e auto-rendição, e esta parte do encontro encontra-se gravada num vídeo separado: https://youtu.be/JhtoYyJHFGg

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Arunachala

Poppadum Song (Appala Pattu)

By Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi

Photograph by David Godman

Track C/O Sri Ramanasaram

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Sri Bhagavan Ramana, the human form of Arunachala, which Sri Bhagavan and other saints praise as the “Ocean of Grace” graciously gave Appalappattu, written when His mother wanted Him to assist in making appalam. Appalam in Tamil, Poppadam in Malayalam, Appadam in Telugu, is a very thin, round cake made of black gram flour fried crisp, used in South Indian food. Sri Bhagavan told His mother that He will prepare another appalam and wrote this song.

APPALA PATTU or

THE SONG OF THE POPPADUM

Refrain  (Pallavi)

Make poppadums, just try — and these eating, put an end to your desire.

Supplemental Refrain  (Anu Pallavi)

Don’t roam the world disconsolate. Heed the word, unique, unspoken, Taught by the teacher true who teaches The truth of Being Awareness Bliss…     Make poppadums, just try — and these     eating, put an end to your desire.

Text  (Charanam)

1. Take the black gram, ego self, Growing in the five-fold body field (1) And grind it in the quern, The wisdom quest of ‘Who am l?’ Reducing it to finest flour.     Make poppadums, just try — and these     eating, put an end to your desire.

2. Mix it with pirandai juice, which is holy company, Add mind control, the cummin seed, the pepper of self restraint, The salt of non attachment and asafoetida, the aroma Of virtuous inclination.     Make poppadums, just try — and these     eating, put an end to your desire.

3. In the Heart-mortar place the dough. And with the mind-pestle Inward-turned, pound it hard with strokes of ‘I-I’, Then flatten it with the rolling pin of stillness on the level slab of Being. Work away, untiring, steady, cheerful.     Make poppadums, just try — and these     eating, put an end to your desire.

4. Put the poppadum in the ghee of Brahman held in the pan of Infinite silence and fry it over the fire of knowledge. Now as ‘I’ transmuted into ‘That’, eat and taste the Self as Self, Abiding as the Self alone.     Make poppadums, just try — and these     eating, put an end to your desire.

(1) The five kosas or sheaths: physical, vital, mental, intellectual, and subtle.

Pallavi - This is the start of the song. The first two lines of the songs. They occur after every other stanza in the song. Anu Pallavi - The pallavi  is followed by two or three more lines and is called the anupallavi. Generally, there is only one anupallavi in any song. This may go to a higher frequency than pallavi and adds beauty to the music Charanam - This is the stanzas of the song which have the same tune. There can be more than one charanam for a song. Pallavi  is sung after every charanam. These form the end of root of the song.

Below is an image of the Tamil text in Bhagavan’s handwriting.

[reproduced from “Works of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi in His own Handwriting.“]

3rd April, 1947

MOTHER ALAGAMMA 

The other day there was a talk in Sri Bhagavan’s presence about old songs. Bhagavan said, “Mother used to sing "Dakshinamurthy Stotra" and other Vedantic songs. They used to be full of meaning. Nobody cares about them nowadays but it would be very good if they were edited and published.” 

- Ramana Maharshi (in Letters from Sri Ramanasramam, by Suri Nagamma (Letter 102)  

Book: Sri Ramanopadesa Noonmalai -  Appalap Pattu. pg. 168 (pdf)

Word by word in English Meaning : Sri Sadhu Om Translation : Michael James 

Appalam in Tamil, Poppadam in Malayalam, Appadam in Telugu, is a very thin, round cake made of black gram flour fried crisp, used in South Indian food.

   Appala Pattu Song 

http://www.sriramana.org/music/7daytamilparayana/32appalappattu.mp3

Pallavi - Refrain

Seek to prepare the appalam of self-knowledge; eating it, put an end to your desire.

 Anu Pallavi - Supplemental Refrain

Instead of wandering in this world craving for the fulfillment of other desires, seek to prepare the appalam of self-knowledge in accordance with the unequalled and unsurpassed unique language of silence which is the principle (tattva) that the Sadguru (Sri Dakshinamurti), the embodiment of Existence – Consciousness – Bliss (sat-bodhasukha), spoke without speaking in words.

 Charanam 1

Crushing the black gram, which is the attachment "I am this body" that flourishes in the five-sheathed field (the body), which is not self, and reducing it to powder thus "this body is not I" in the grinding stone of the jnana-vichara ‘Who am I’?, seek to prepare the appalam of Self-knowledge.

 Charanam 2

Mixing (with the above said powdered black-gram) the juice of the square-stalked vine which is sat-sangam, (association with Jnanis), and also the cummin-seed and pepper which are (respectively) sama (tranquility) and dama (self-restraint), and about that salt which is uparati (renunciation of worldly desires and activities), and also the asafoetida which is the good vasana in the heart (that is, the good tendency or vasana of heart of longing for liberation), seek to prepare the appalam of self-knowledge.

 Charanam 3

Unceasingly and without agitation pounding (the above said mixture) as "I-I" in the mortar-stone of the heart with the pestle of introversion, perpetually, joyfully and without languor (weariness or slackness) seek to prepare the appalam (of self-knowledge) on the slab which is samadhi with the rolling-pin which is peace.

 Charanam 4

Frying (the appalam) eternally as "I am That" in the pure ghee of Brahman which is heated by the fire of knowledge (jnanagni) in the endless (indestructible) pan which is the mouna – mudra (the sign of silence), in order to experience oneself alone as oneself ("I alone am I") seek to prepare the tanmaya appalam (the appalam which is of the nature of That, the Reality or Self).

Appalam Pattu by Aditi - Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi's 71st Aradhana May 25, 2021

Appala Pattu - Sri Ramana Maharishi

Sri Bhagavan Ramana, the human form of Arunachala, which Sri Bhagavan and other saints praise as the "Ocean of Grace" graciously gave Appalappattu, written when His mother wanted Him to assist in making appalam. Appalam in Tamil, Poppadam in Malayalam, Appadam in Telugu, is a very thin, round cake made of black gram flour fried crisp, used in South Indian food. Sri Bhagavan told His mother that He will prepare another appalam and wrote this song.

 APPALA PATTU or 

THE SONG OF THE POPPADUM

Refrain  (Pallavi)

Make poppadums, just try — and these eating, put an end to your desire.

Supplemental Refrain  (Anu Pallavi)

Don’t roam the world disconsolate. Heed the word, unique, unspoken, Taught by the teacher true who teaches The truth of Being Awareness Bliss…      Make poppadums, just try — and these       eating, put an end to your desire.

Text  (Charanam)

1. Take the black gram, ego self, Growing in the five-fold body field (1) And grind it in the quern, The wisdom quest of ‘Who am l?’ Reducing it to finest flour.      Make poppadums, just try — and these       eating, put an end to your desire.

2. Mix it with pirandai juice, which is holy company, Add mind control, the cummin seed, the pepper of self restraint, The salt of non attachment and asafoetida, the aroma Of virtuous inclination.      Make poppadums, just try — and these       eating, put an end to your desire.

3. In the Heart-mortar place the dough. And with the mind-pestle Inward-turned, pound it hard with strokes of ‘I-I’, Then flatten it with the rolling pin of stillness on the level slab of Being. Work away, untiring, steady, cheerful.      Make poppadums, just try — and these      eating, put an end to your desire.

4. Put the poppadum in the ghee of Brahman held in the pan of Infinite silence and fry it over the fire of knowledge. Now as ‘I’ transmuted into ‘That’, eat and taste the Self as Self, Abiding as the Self alone.      Make poppadums, just try — and these      eating, put an end to your desire.

(1) The five kosas or sheaths: physical, vital, mental, intellectual, and subtle.

Pallavi - This is the start of the song. The first two lines of the songs. They occur after every other stanza in the song. Anu Pallavi - The pallavi  is followed by two or three more lines and is called the anupallavi. Generally, there is only one anupallavi in any song. This may go to a higher frequency than pallavi and adds beauty to the music Charanam - This is the stanzas of the song which have the same tune. There can be more than one charanam for a song. Pallavi  is sung after every charanam. These form the end of root of the song.

Below is an image of the Tamil text in Bhagavan’s handwriting.

[reproduced from “Works of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi in His own Handwriting.“]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3b-xewrHa4)

APPALA PATTU (THE SONG OF THE PAPADUM) 

and

MOTHER ALAGAMMA

3rd April, 1947

[...]  “There is a big story about this song,” Bhagavan said...  

 “In the early days when Mother came to stay with me in Virupaksha Cave, there was no cooking. If Echamma or anybody else brought her any food she used to eat it, clean the vessels and then go to bed. That was all. 

One day she thought I had nothing special to eat and as I was fond of the twin appalams, she thought it would be a good idea to make some for me. 

Being well experienced, she could not refrain from making them. Without my knowledge she asked the Mudaliar old lady, Echamma and some others to get everything ready and one evening she set out, saying that she was going to the village.

I wanted to see where she was really going, and so when she left, I waited silently under the tree outside. 

She thought I did not know anything. She went to several houses, collected all the required things in a big vessel and returned. I closed my eyes and pretended complete ignorance. She put them away carefully in the cave till all the visitors left. 

After nightfall, I had my usual meal and lay down pretending to sleep. Leisurely, she took out the wooden roller, wooden seat, loose flour and the balls of paste and commenced making appalams.

There were about two to three hundred to be made. She could not prepare them all single-handed. I knew the job. So she quietly began telling me, ‘My boy, please help me with it.’ 

I got the opportunity I was waiting for. If I were lenient in this, she would start something else. I wanted to put a timely stop to it. 

I said, ‘You have renounced everything and have come here, haven’t you? Why all this? You should rest content with whatever is available. I won’t help you. I won’t eat them if you prepare them. Make them all for yourself, and eat them yourself.’ 

She was silent for a while and again started saying, ‘What, my dear son, please help me a little.’ I was adamant. She continued to call me again and again. 

Feeling it was no use arguing any more, I said, ‘All right. You make these appalams; I will make another kind’, and I started singing this ‘Appalam Song’. She used to sing a rice song, soup song and other such songs, all with Vedantic meanings. 

None appears to have written an appalam song. So I felt I should compose one. She was very fond of songs. So she felt that she could learn another song. By the time the preparation of the appalams was over, my song also was finished. ‘I will eat this appalam (the song about the appalams), and you eat those that you have made,’ I told her. That happened sometime in 1914 or 1915.” 

“What a big story!”