Na Karmana Na Karmana is the last Vedic chant of both the morning and evening Veda Parayanas at Sri Ramanasramam. It is customary for devotees to stand as it is chanted and then prostrate to the Guru when it concludes. This tradition continues in the Ashram at the Masters samadhi shrine. In 1938, A. W. Chadwick (Sadhu Arunachala), with the help of some devotees, translated Na Karmana into English. Sri Bhagavan corrected and approved his English versification. The Maharshis explaination of the verse and Chadwicks English versification appears in Talks With Sri Ramana Maharshi under the date of 9 - 9 - 1938. In the Nirvanna Room in Sri Ramanasramam, there is a framed Tamil translation of Na Karmana written on two pages. The page on the left, which is in pencil, is Bhagavans draft; the right page is the same Tamil text but is a fair copy in ink, written by P. N. Swaminathan Iyer. Sri K. Natesan who was there when this translation was written said that Bhagavan had asked him to make a fair copy of his translation in ink, but his former math teacher, N. S. Swaminathan Iyer, who was also there, insisted he must do it. The fair copy in ink is his. The date written at the bottom of the sheet is 10-9-1938, one day after the entry in Talks. By these dates we can infer that Bhagavan was probably requested to provide the devotees with a Tamil translation at the time Chadwick translated it into English. In the new edition of the Collected Works, the following translation of Chadwicks has been added. Tis not by means of action immortality is gained, Nor even yet by offspring, nor possession of much gold, But by renunciation by some it is attained. The Sages who their senses have all thoroughly controlled Attain that Sat than which high heavens Supremacy is less, Which ever doth within the Heart its radiance unfold. The Adepts by renunciation and one-pointedness Who have become both pure in heart and who have also known The certainty of that one Truth Vedanta doth profess, Attain Self-realization; when ignorance has flown From body and its cause Maya theyll gain full liberty. That only as minute Akash what has eternal shone, That is within the Lotus Heart, of every sorrow free, of the Immaculate Supreme, the seat molecular, Within the bodys inner core, should meditated be. He verily is Lord Supreme. He is exalted far Above the Primal Word, which is of Veda first and last; In which blends the Creative Cause, so merged in one they are. July, 1983 Mountain Path.
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