Mmgl Part 016-002 - Met Guru's Son Poem by Rajaram Ramachandran

The place was so untidy
There were pots of toddy,
And bones giving stench smell.
It looked more like a hell.

Like a black bear, guru's son,
He sat with his wife and men.
Sadhuvan made friendship with him
And sat under a tree near him.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

Guru's son asked, 'What for
And how you came here? '
Sadhuvan told him of the terror
He faced in the sea of horror.

The son said, 'His story is sad
His plight seems to be very bad
All the days he had no food.
Our sympathy he needs.'

'Give him toddy hot and fresh,
To eat give him sufficient flesh.
To serve give him a young girl.
Let him take rest for a while.'

REFUSAL AND WONDER

Sadhuvan was surprised to hear
Guru son's each and every order,
He said, 'I heard harsh words.
I never asked for these offers.'

The guru's son was enraged
And he then challenged,
'With no girl and food
What else there is good? '

GOOD ADVICE GIVEN

'Wine intoxicates the mind.
Eating flesh of any kind,
By killing innocent animal,
It's, elders say, also harmful.'

'Death after birth
And birth after death,
In fact, it's like
Sleep and wake.'

'Good deeds take one
Surely to the heaven,
While bad deeds take one
To the hell, not Heaven.'

HOW WILL IT GO?

Guru's son laughed
And he then asked
'How life that leaves one body
It can enter another body? '

THE TRUTH OF LIFE

Sadhuvan explained:

'Good or bad enjoys the body,
When life is in the body,
There's no feeling in the body,
When life goes out of the body.'

'You must know from this
Life in every body exists.
This is how a life moves
Body to body it travels.'

BORN AGAIN

'One who left his body,
He's sure of a place of stay,
And I can also assure this
As everyone knows this.'

'In the dream, the body is here
But the life goes elsewhere.
This you would have seen.
So also life enters body, a new one.'

MORAL SUITS US

Sadhuvan's good moral lesson,
Opened the eyes of guru's son,
How to stop flesh and wine
To know this he was keen.

SADHUVAN TOLD

'Save shipwrecked sailors,
And kill not their lives.
Kill only old dying animals
And not other animals.'

NAGA GAVE GIFT

Guru's son heard
What all he said.
He told, 'This advice
I like and it suits us.'

'We ate earlier shipwrecked men
And their shiploads are lying down.
Sandalwood, clothes, and other things,
You can take all these things.'

SADHUVAN RETURNED HOME

Sadhuvan accepted the offer
They enriched his coffer.
In the ship of Chandradhathan,
He had his home return.

He lived with his wife
And started a new life.
Rich he became thereafter.
He gave gifts to the poor.

STOOD BEGGING

'Take alms first from Adhirai'
This way told Kayachandigai
To the begging Manimegalai
The famous daughter of Madhavi.

ADHIRAI GAVE FOOD

In Amudhasurabhi bowl Manimegalai held.
With her food, Adhirai brimful filled
And prayed, 'Let this disease hunger
From this world completely disappear.'