One Hundred Aphorisms of Sage Uromarishi

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In this bountiful earth, salts are many—among them,
There are three primary salts, with Savukkaram original: "savukkara," a naturally occurring alkaline salt or carbonate of soda often used as a flux in alchemy being chief.
The mind, like a restless ghost-monkey, thinks of other things,
And people perish without seeing the path to the final day.
Just as a blacksmith tells a story of the ornaments he fashioned,
Claiming they are made of heavy gold,
Many speak at length in the fierce Kesari language A cryptic, symbolic language used by Siddhas to hide alchemical secrets from the uninitiated;
They have gathered all these words together.

They gathered "Vedic names" for these salts—
Is this not the beautiful custom of the Siddhas of this land?
They confused the world by saying one thing while meaning another;
The mind becomes deluded, unable to perceive the varieties in many books.
It is all just circular talk; can a coconut be broken by merely shaking it?
This, dear sir, is the proper metaphor.
It is like the nature of a blind man attempting to leap,
Or the story of the blind men who tried to describe an elephant A famous parable where blind men touch different parts of an elephant and conclude it is a rope, a wall, or a tree, representing partial truths.

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To a blind man, one might explain the color of milk
By comparing it to a crane; but when he reaches out to feel it The blind man feels the crooked neck of the crane and assumes milk is crooked/solid—
It is like the novelty of claiming a child’s magic trick
Will save a life if swallowed.
It is as useless as showing a bird to Garuda The mythical divine eagle; showing a common bird to the king of birds is considered an insignificant act.
Those with even a little wisdom will say there is something else beyond.
A thief cannot perceive the way of Vazhalai A highly secretive alchemical "salt" or "phlegm" considered the "mother of all salts" in Siddha science;
Perform this process gently, without allowing yourself to be distracted.

Take the metal sheet you have prepared and place it in Pazhangatti Likely a fermented liquid or an acidic plant extract used for quenching;
Heat it in the fire and rub it clean to purify it.
Take one Panam A traditional unit of weight, roughly 488mg of the true Guru The "master" alchemical substance or catalyst used to trigger transformation,
And spread it over the hammered sheet, both top and bottom.
Grind Manji leaves and Nochi Vitex negundo, a medicinal shrub used extensively in purification together,
Place them in a mortar, grind them well, and create a Kavasam A protective medicinal paste or "casing" applied to metals before they are subjected to high heat.
Place it in the furnace...
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