tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post4422890473704655417..comments2024-03-20T13:24:11.422+05:30Comments on Arunachala and Ramana Maharshi: More on the Tamil parayanaDavid Godmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10354181925332694222noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-44281272124360676802009-12-22T08:09:49.646+05:302009-12-22T08:09:49.646+05:30hi...
I could not understand tamil parayana. Is t...hi...<br /><br />I could not understand tamil parayana. Is telugu parayana available anywhere? I want to do parayana and know more about this. I could not understand properly in English too. It will be easy for me to read and understand about this in my mother tougue. can I know about this pls.. Thank youAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-18932800174840293302008-05-26T07:47:00.000+05:302008-05-26T07:47:00.000+05:30Yes, but I haven't really started the work yet. I ...Yes, but I haven't really started the work yet. I arranged with Kamal, the late president of Avadhuta, to make three volumes, after which I would review the material to see if I should continue the series. Most teachers seem to say the same thing again and again and a point is reached when books about them become a bit repetitive. I decided I would do three books of dialogues and then check the contents of the remaining satsangs I have transcripts of to see how much truly original material remained.<BR/><BR/>I have a few other jobs pending at the moment, but I want to get back to this series later this year.David Godmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10354181925332694222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-80456435128955182392008-05-26T03:07:00.000+05:302008-05-26T03:07:00.000+05:30Mistake..I was planning to post the above comment ...Mistake..I was planning to post the above comment on your 'Summa Iru' post..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-47494125752352415912008-05-26T03:06:00.000+05:302008-05-26T03:06:00.000+05:30I saw "The Fire of Freedom, Satsang with Papaji, V...I saw "The Fire of Freedom, Satsang with Papaji, Volume 1" as the title of your latest book on avadutha.com. Is there a Volume 2 coming up?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-60240692034110554092008-05-23T06:22:00.000+05:302008-05-23T06:22:00.000+05:30I found the information I posted yesterday in a 20...I found the information I posted yesterday in a 2002 reprint of this book, appendix one, starting on page 107. This information was not printed in the first edition. The Thayumanavar verses are printed in this 2002 edition, but the Sivprakasam Pillai verses are not. This is a paragraph from page 109:<BR/><BR/>All the above-mentioned works [listed on the fifteen-day cycle] were copied in the ashram parayana notebook and any devotees who were interested to join in the parayana would copy the verses in their own notebooks. However, Swami Sivananda, who was an attendant of Sri Bhagavan during the 1940s, knew that he could not copy all the verses without making many mistakes, so he requested Sri Bhagavan to copy them for him. Since no work was ever too small or insignificant for Sri Bhagavan to attend to, he painstakingly copied all the verses in his small and neat handwriting in a pocket-size notebook which he himself had bound. Since his attendant did not know any language or script other than Tamil, Sri Bhagavan also transliterated in Tamil script all the verses in Sanskrit, Telugu and Malayalam. And on page thirteen, above his verse 'karunar navamayk...' (which means, 'This is Arunachala Siva, who, being the ocean of grace, bestows liberation when meditated upon', and which is intended to be written below a picture of Arunachala) he drew a small sketch of the holy hill Arunachala.<BR/><BR/>It appears that Sri Bhagavan copied all these verses for Swami Sivananda sometime in the early 1940s, and hence this notebook does not contain Ekatma Panchakam and Atma Bodham, which were composed by Sri Bhagavan in 1947 and 1948 respectively. The notebook contains all the other works included in the Tamil parayana, and in the present book all the works copied by Bhagavan in the notebook are reproduced except Sri Ramana Stuti Panchakam and the works of Sivaprakasam Pillai.<BR/><BR/>------------<BR/><BR/>My understanding of these words is that the missing texts are in the original notebook, but an editorial decision was taken to exclude them from the printed version. The notebook itself is in the ashram archives.David Godmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10354181925332694222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-85287351024207502512008-05-23T05:32:00.000+05:302008-05-23T05:32:00.000+05:30yeah please do post the selections from Sivaprakas...yeah please do post the selections from Sivaprakasam Pillai..i haven't read the original thayumanavar tamil verses but the translation is awesome, profound..thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961358105214008284.post-25175584599257237602008-05-22T23:42:00.000+05:302008-05-22T23:42:00.000+05:30Thank you for putting up the translation of these ...Thank you for putting up the translation of these marvellous Saint Thayumanavar verses, particularly as the verses are not translated in the book you mentioned. In my humble opinion, any verses chosen by Sri Bhagavan are significant spiritually & esp. so because He then went thro’ the trouble of painstakingly writing them out in His neat print-like hand. <BR/><BR/>So please do put up the translations to the SPP verses as well. And if you have a fresh translation to the verses by the mysterious Sri Satyamangala Venkataramaiyer, grateful to have that as well. <BR/><BR/>Also, if you would know, why are these 2 sets not in the hand-written notebook as reproduced ? The covering text does not also clarify whether Sri Bhagavan copied them out at all or whether they went missing from the notebook later on. And finally, what happened to the notebook itself – is it now lost ? <BR/><BR/>Many thanksArvind Lalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360948041915924290noreply@blogger.com