Mmgl Part 016-002 - Met Guru's Son

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.'