Listen at :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhIVMEev-ac#t=42
This was composed by Ramana Mahrishi..
There is a story:
Appalam ittup Pāru
(Song of the Pappadum)
from
Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi
This was written by Ramana Maharshi, when he was about 29. His mother had come to stay with him on the hill. 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 [which is tamil for Papads].
More at:
http://www.arunachala.org/elibrary/docs ... ttup-paru/
Below is an image of the Tamil text in Bhagavan's handwriting.
you can click the image to view or print the poem. [reproduced from
"Works of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi in His own Handwriting."]
Rendered here...Is it Maharishi himself..
http://mfi.re/listen/x3zh7dm41f99uxw/ap ... -paaru.mp3
