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| Name | Pongal Prayer: The significance of pongal in light of Sri Ramana's teachings - Robert Butler |
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| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 16-01-2021 20:42:29 |
| Video Discription | Robert Butler recently shared with us a Poṅgal prayer-verse in Tamil he himself wrote. At our request, he started Houston Ramana Center's Pongal Day 2021 satsang with this prayer-verse, and explained the meaning and significance of Poṅgal in light of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi's teachings. Poṅgal is the harvest festival in Tamil Nadu which celebrates the Sun’s return northward after reaching its most southerly point on the 21st of December. It is therefore a celebration and thanksgiving to the Sun for the gifts of light and warmth, fertility, fruitfulness, life itself in fact. The name derives from the rice dish which is ideally prepared from freshly harvested rice and ritually boiled on the second day of the festival until it bubbles over, to shouts of ‘Poṅgalo, poṅgal.’ Similar festivals are held in many other parts of India at this time. The word is derived from the Tamil root word 'poṅgu', which has the following meanings, according to Winslow’s dictionary: To boil up bubble by heat To foam and rage, as the sea To ferment, to effervesce To rise as bread, from leaven, To swell, increase expand, extend, To grow intense, To abound, flourish, be fruitful To rise grow high, become elevated To swell as the heart, in anger, sorrow joy To be flushed with hope or desire, to be elated To boil rice To boil rice in cow’s milk as a religious rite. So if Poṅgal celebrates the winter solstice, why is it held on the 14th of January? A simple way to explain this is to imagine a Vedic astrologer, around the year 272 BC, looking at the sky at sunrise on the 21st of December and watching the sun rise, every year, against a certain configuration of fixed stars in the heavens. The problem is that the stars are not actually fixed. From the earth’s perspective the canopy of the stars appears to revolve very slowly west, taking around 26,000 year to complete one revolution, a movement which only becomes noticeable over large periods of time. The is due to the ‘wobble’ in the perpendicular axis of the revolving earth, which is rather like the wobble seen in a spinning top as it slows down. This phenomenon has the rather grand name ‘Precession of the Equinoxes.’ If we brought our Vedic astrologer into the 21st century, he might be chagrined to learn that he now had to wait till the 14th of January to witness his expected solstice configuration. The idea of this verse is a simple one. When we are born into a physical body, we go rushing out, away from our true Self – or at least we think we do - investigating all the apparent ‘stuff’ out there, until at some point, hopefully, we see through the illusion and gradually make our way back to our true home in the Self. The idea of the Sun returning north after its sojourn in the southern hemisphere is taken as a metaphor for this process. Bhagavan expresses a similar idea in his birthday venba, written in 1912 when he was living in Virupākṣa cave: "You who are preparing such a great celebration for my birthday! The true day of birth is the day on which you are born into the Reality that shines eternally as One, having carefully examined what birth is, and realized that neither birth nor death exist." Verse written and presented by Robert: பொங்கிடும் பொங்கலாம் பொன்னாளிற் கொண்டாட அங்கணனே யெல்லோர்க்கு ளாத்மாவா யிங்கிருப்பாய் ஞாயிறு மீண்டும் வடக்குறு ஞான்றுமே ஞாயமே பூக்குனா ளாம். பொங்கிடும் பொங்கலாம் பொன் நாளில் கொண்டாட அங்கணனே எல்லோர்க்குள் ஆத்மாவாய் இங்கிருப்பாய் ஞாயிறு மீண்டும் வடக்குறும் ஞான்றுமே ஞாயமே பூக்கும் நாள் ஆம். To celebrate the glorious, golden Pongal day O Fair-eyed one within the Hearts of all, do stay! On this day when the Sun journeys north once more May true understanding in our hearts blossom forth. - Sri Ramana Center of Houston. [4HKkjAJphOM] |
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