Sappattu Raman

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Introduction to Sandhyavandhanam

Sandhyavandana is a mandatory religious ritual that needs to be performed by all twice-born people of Hinduism. Especially brahmins who are initiated into the sacred thread ceremony called as Upanayanam, and instructed in its execution by a Guru (a qualified spiritual teacher). Sandhyavandanam consists of excerpts from the Vedas that are to be performed thrice daily at morning (prātaḥsaṃdhyā), at noon (mādhyānika), and in the evening (sāyaṃsaṃdhyā).
Sandhyavandanam is the oldest extant liturgy in world religion. It may be a practice descended from the much older daily Agnihotra.

Sandhyavandanam literally means salutation to Sandhya. Sandhya literally means transition moments of the day namely the two twilight: dawn and dusk and the solar noon. Thus Sandhyavandanam means salutation to twilight or solar noon.

The term sandhyā is also used by itself in the sense of "daily practice" to refer to the performance of these devotions at the opening and closing of the day. [1][2]
[3][4] The steps in the Sandhyavandan always include the following essential ones:
1. Achamana consists of Nama Sankirthana---taking the names of the Lord
2. Pranayama is the ritual purification of internals via breathing exercises
3. Marjana is a ritual self-purification
4. Mantra Prokshanam is a prayer for atonement of sins
5. Aghamarshana (performed by some schools, especially Rig Vedins) is a prayer for forgiveness of sins
6. Gayathri japa is meditation
7. Upasthanam is prayer to Mitra (in the morning prayer) & Varuna (in the evening prayer)
8. AbhivAdana is a salutory introduction offered to all deities. It usually follows a prostration to the deities of each direction ("dikpaalas")

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Lunch at Uduppi Hotel Pudupatti

On 09 December 2012, when I entered Uduppi hotel at Pudupatti (Pon. Puduppatti) with great hunger, it was lunch time. I opted to eat a square meal, ordered the same (Muzhuch Chaappaadu) and waited.

Meanwhile my eyes scanned all around the wall displays and recorded in my mind all beautifully presented photo stills, mainly the temples of Ponnamaravathi.

The waiter brought a nicely cut, green colour, previously cleaned fresh plantain leaf (Banana leaf), measuring about two feet length and one and half feet width (Adengappa!) and placed on the dining table spread opened with great care and kind.

A waterman kept a sparkling stainless steel tumbler measuring about 250 millilitres (250 Milliliters) at the left side of the leaf, filled it with water and placed a water filled jug adjacent to it.

A subjiwala waiter, who is considered to be next to the main waiter, who brings and places on the leaf Chithraannam and / or koottukkari offered four different varieties of food preparations out of vegetable varieties.

Another sub supplier placed a cup of paayaasam (payasam), a dessert to be taken after the meals, at the right side of the leaf.

One new smart employee politely placed a thin, bright, pale yellow, crispy, deep fried, round appalam (Pappad in Hindi) at the right side of the leaf.  

The major constituent of the meal, the nicely cooked rice, was placed at the middle of the leaf. (Earlier, the rice used to be supplied only once in fixed quantity. Now the practice is changed. Rice is being served in portions repeatedly on an as required basis.)

I had the rice repeatedly, mixed with sambar, vaththakkuzhambu, (Vatral Kulambu), Rasam and moru (butter milk) one after another, in the same plantain leaf, enjoying all the side dishes that include ‘tomato masala’. Last but not the least that I had and enjoyed was ‘Payasam’. Some people prefer to take payasam in between rice with rasam and that with moru.

Taking a healthy and tasty lunch in Uduppi Hotel, Shree Krishna Bhavan, on plantain leaf, by spending only Rs.45/-, without using any spoon, is a pleasurable enjoyment besides filling stomach satisfactorily.

Uduppi Pongal

Have you ever tasted the ghee shining Venpongal at Uduppi hotel of PON.Puduppatti, Ponnamaravathi? If not please visit the hotel as early as possible and experience the pleasure of having it. The hotel is in Pudukkottai district of Tamilnadu, India.

When I was studying in Valampuri Vaduganathan High School (now higher secondary school), I used to prepare throughout the night under the street lamps for examinations. One day, in the early morning, at about 5 O’ clock, I visited Uduppi hotel for a cup of strong coffee. At that time I saw my teacher Mr. Ananthanarayanan taking Pongal as his breakfast with great enjoyment and satisfaction. Not only he but also many regular customers were enjoying the delicious dish with coconut chutney and sambar. Parcel specialist of those days Mr. Perumal was busy in packing several Pongal.

On returning from Uduppi hotel, I enquired my father Mr. M. Natarajan Achari (Tinsmith) about the craving for eating Pongal at Uduppi hotel. He replied that he also used to take Pongal everyday early in the morning not at 5 O’ clock but after 6 O’clock. The next day I got the chance of having Uduppi Pongal. It was a wonderful experience for the taste buds of my tongue. The dish was enriched with ghee, cashew nuts, black peppers etc, with good aroma and completely satisfied me in all respects.

Form then onwards, Uduppi Pongal occupied a portion of my tiffin box, till I completed my B.Sc., degree in chemistry at V.S.Sivalingam Chettiar Government Arts College Pulankurichi.

It is the ability of this hotel to maintain the same standard of Pongal till today.

__ N. Arumugham

        

Quotations about Coffee and Caffeine

A morning without coffee is like sleep.  ~Author Unknown

Conscience keeps more people awake than coffee.  ~Author Unknown

Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with.  ~Terri Guillemets

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.  ~Author Unknown

Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.  ~Alphonse Allais

Coffee smells like freshly ground heaven.  ~Jessi Lane Adams

I like my coffee like my women:  hot, strong, steamy.  ~Author Unknown

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., "Over the Teacups," 1891


No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.  ~Sheik Abd-al-Kadir


Over second and third cups flow matters of high finance, high state, common gossip and low comedy.  [Coffee] is a social binder, a warmer of tongues, a soberer of minds, a stimulant of wit, a foiler of sleep if you want it so.  From roadside mugs to the classic demi-tasse, it is the perfect democrat.  ~Author Unknown


No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.  ~Henry Ward Beecher



I believe humans get a lot done, not because we're smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee.  ~Flash Rosenberg


As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.  ~Author Unknown


Mothers are those wonderful people who can get up in the morning before the smell of coffee.  ~Author Unknown



Way too much coffee.  But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.  ~David Letterman


Decaffeinated coffee is the devil's blend.  ~Author Unknown


This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion.  Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place.  Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind.  The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters.  Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.  ~Honore de Balzac, "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee"


Decaffeinated coffee is kind of like kissing your sister.  ~Bob Irwin


I bought a decaffeinated coffee table, you can't even see a difference.  ~Author Unknown


Decaf?  No, it's dangerous to dilute my caffeine stream.  ~Author Unknown


Chocolate, men, coffee - some things are better rich.  ~Author Unknown


Coffee has two virtues:  it is wet and warm.  ~Dutch Proverb


Coffee, the finest organic suspension ever devised.  ~Star Trek: Voyager


Petroleum and coffee had no value a few centuries ago.  ~Author Unknown


He was my cream, and I was his coffee -
And when you poured us together, it was something.
~Josephine Baker


I've just arrived in New York City.  What a place!  Just smell those skyscrapers.  Had breakfast at a little deli on Ninth Avenue.  Cheese Danish and a cup of coffee, black as a moonless night.  Hit the spot.  ~From the television show Twin Peaksby David Lynch  (Thanks, Rachel)



Caffeine isn't a drug, it's a vitamin!  ~Author Unknown


Deja Brew:  The feeling that you've had this coffee before.  ~Author Unknown


I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.  ~Harry Mahtar


Forever:  Time it takes to brew the first pot of coffee in the morning.  ~Author Unknown


A fig for partridges and quails,
ye dainties I know nothing of ye;
But on the highest mount in Wales
Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.
~Jonathon Swift


Don't drink coffee in the morning.  It will keep you awake until noon.  ~Author Unknown


Coffee, which makes the politicians wise,
And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
~Alexander Pope


Be a coffee-drinking individual - espresso yourself!  ~Author Unknown

I make serious coffee - so strong it wakes up the neighbors.  ~Author Unknown


Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy; work becomes easier and you will sit down without distress to your principal repast which will restore your body and afford you a calm, delicious night.  ~Prince Tallyrand


In America you can buy bucket-sized cups of coffee in any flavour you like other than coffee-flavour.  ~Author Unknown


You know you've been playing too much Nethack when you refer to coffee as a potion of sleep resistance.  ~Sweeney Todd Lundgren


I never drink coffee at lunch.  I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.  ~Ronald Reagan


Man does not live by coffee alone.  Have a danish.  ~Author Unknown


Coffee, n.  break fluid.  ~Author Unknown


This coffee tastes like mud!  Well, it was ground this morning.  ~Old Vaudeville joke



I don't have a problem with caffeine.  I have a problem without caffeine!  ~Author Unknown


Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee.  ~Stephanie Piro



If it ain't caffeinated, it ain't coffee!  ~Author Unknown


Coffee and tobacco are complete repose.  ~Turkish Proverb


I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.  ~Carly Simon


In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.  ~Jeff Bezos


Black as the devil, Hot as hell,
Pure as an angel, Sweet as love.
~Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord


Coffee in England is just toasted milk.  ~Author Unknown


Ultimate office automation - networked coffee machines.  ~Author Unknown


Everybody should believe in something.  I believe I'll have another coffee.  ~Author Unknown


Decaf is like masturbating with an oven mitt!  ~Robin Williams



I could smell myself awake with that coffee.  ~Jaesse Tyler


Coffee:  The first peripheral!  ~Author Unknown


I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.  ~T.S. Eliot


Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee.  ~Alexander King


Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water.  ~The Women's Petition Against Coffee, 1674


Retirement is one great big giant coffee break.  ~Author Unknown


My blood type is Folgers.  ~Author Unknown


All the coffee in Columbia won't make me a morning person.  ~Author Unknown


Do I like my coffee black?  There are other colors?  ~Author Unknown


Nothing is sad on a beautiful morning save to look down and realize you just had the last sip of coffee and the mug sits indifferently empty.  ~Terri Guillemets


Don't laugh at the coffee.  Some day you, too, may be old and weak.  ~Author Unknown


It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.  I bet this kind of thing does not happen to heroin addicts.  I bet that when serious heroin addicts go to purchase their heroin, they do not tolerate waiting in line while some dilettante in front of them orders a hazelnut smack-a-cino with cinnamon sprinkles.  ~Dave Barry



Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.  ~Jonathan Swift


I'd stop drinking coffee, but I'm no quitter.  ~Author Unknown


The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.  ~Mark Helprin,Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995


A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.  ~Paul Erdos


Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups:  alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.  ~Alex Levine


I'll quit coffee.  It won't be easy drinking my Bailey's straight, but I'll get used to it.  It'll still be the best part of waking up.  ~From the television show Will and Grace


Docs?  Oh, you mean the stuff you wipe up coffee with?  ~Author Unknown


Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.  ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh


Given enough coffee, I could rule the world.  ~Author Unknown


I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume.  ~John Van Druten