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\nStamp Commemorating Sri Purandara Dasa<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n
God is the source for infinite happiness and he has infinite names, infinite forms and is ubiquitous. For Purandara Dasa, God is Purandara Vittala<\/a> in whose form he saw all other manifestations or avatars of God like Rama, Krishna, Shiva and Hanuma. <\/p>\n The spiritual song “Rama nama payasakke<\/a>” is quite popular and sung by many in their own versions. It was written in the beautiful south Indian language of Kannada<\/a> which is said to be as enchanting as the fragrance of kasturi<\/a>. Saint Purandara Dasa elicits the great bliss in chanting the name of the God Vittala in “Rama Nama Payasakke<\/a>“.<\/p>\n The keerthana explains with an easy analogy on how to obtain the spiritual bliss or Ananda with a recipe to make payasam. <\/p>\n The keerthana goes like this: <\/p>\n Pallavi: rAma nAma pAyasakke krSNa nAma sakkare viTTala nAma tuppava kalasi bAya capparisiro Purandara Dasa sings, “O people, indulge in the lip-smacking-good payasam called Rama nama, which is made sweet with the sugar called Krishna nama and is richly folded with the ghee called Vittala nama”\u00c2\u009d.<\/p>\n Then he describes the meticulous details needed to make this special payasam from the scratch.<\/p>\n First obtain wheat flour of honor. Grind it in the mill of detachment. Make the dough called simplicity and draw thin semiya noodles from it.<\/p>\n In the pot called your heart, boil the noodles with the milk of feelings. Cook it then with the wisdom of worship. <\/p>\n Add the sweetness of Krishna’s name as sugar, and the nourishing richness of Vittala’s name as the ghee and lo you have your lip-smacking-delicious payasam.<\/p>\n Purandara Dasa even describes the proper method to enjoy the delicious payasam. He beckons us to serve it on a large platter and enjoy it. When burps emanate out of fulfillment, he asks us to remember the name of God Vittala<\/a> who is the embodiment of immeasurable happiness and ecstasy.<\/p>\n Through this keerthana, purandara dasa gave us a recipe to live an ideal life. To live our life with honor, come through the grinds of materialistic attachments with austerity, and obtain the raw material for happiness using the simple method of devotion. Allow the feelings of joy and love boil in our heart wisely, and celebrate every moment of our life bit by bit contemplating God’s grace with gratitude. That is the ultimate sweet bliss!<\/p>\n Makara Sankranthi Shubhakankshalu!<\/font><\/p>\n Article Contributed by Madhuri Akkenepalli<\/strong> (Friend of Mahanandi)<\/font><\/small> Links: Bhukthi means nourishment. While nutritious food is needed to sustain us for everyday activities and the maintenance of this physical body, a different kind of Bhukthi is necessary to satisfy our cravings to realize the true happiness in ourselves. Constant indulgence in the name of God (Bhakthi) provides the nourishment to realize the bliss of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,197,215,59,212,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authentic-andhra","category-bhakthibhukthi","category-madhuri-akkenepalli","category-festival-sweets","category-semiya","category-sugar-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCharana1: ommAna gOdiya tandu vairAgya kallali bIsi summane sajjige tegadu kammana shAvige hosedu
\nCharana2: hrdayavembo maDikeyalli bhAvavembo esaraniTTu buddhiyinda pAka mADi harivANake baDisikoNDu
\nCharana3: Ananda Anandavembo tEgu bandidu kaNIrO Ananda mUruti namma purandara viTTalana neneyiro<\/small><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"\"](\"\/mahanandi\/images\/semiya\/payasamcopyrightedimage1.jpg\")
\nSemiya, Sugar, Ghee, Milk, Cashews and Draksha ~ Ingredients for Payasam<\/font><\/small><\/center><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"\/mahanandi\/images\/semiya\/payasamcopyrightedimage2.jpg\")
\nRakthi Raga for Bhukthi ~ Semiya Payasam <\/font><\/small><\/center><\/p>\n
\nPhotos by Indira Singari
\nPreviously on Rakthi Raga for Bhukthi:<\/strong>
\nOf Being and Becoming ~ Ragi Idlies by Janani Srinivasan<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSaint Purandara Dasa<\/a> on Wiki.
\nAudio Links to “Rama Nama Payasakke”:
\nby Sreemathi Sudha Raghunathan<\/a> and Vijayalakshmi Subrahmaniam<\/a>
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