LI : Poem : Live and Let Live

 LI : Poem 

Champaguda Detti Jantuvunainanu

Champavalayau Loka Satru Gunamu

Telugondigotta telemicheyura

Viswadha abhirama Vinura Vema !!

చంపగూడ దెట్టి జంతువునైనను ,

చంపవలయుఁ లోక శత్రుగుణము . 

తెలుగొండి గొట్ట తేలేమిచేయరా ,

విశ్వదాభిరామ వినురవేమా 

Meaning: Every Creature created by God has the right to live. hence we should not kill any creature. However, if a man has innate animosity he/ others should strive to erase/eliminate that negative quality in him but not him. For example, if you find a scorpion that has poison in its tail the tail has to be crushed so that it can't sting and harm anyone. Similarly, the negative qualities of people have to be abolished through kind words and actions rather than killing them.

Story:    The poet of these 100 poems which is considered to be the life manual was not possessing positive qualities till his sister-in-law had advised him and transformed him to be a good human being instead of punishing him. let's go to the details. During his prime youth, he moved astray and was a vagabond who never cared for human relations and money. He used to steal jewels and money from his home and spend it on the prostitutes. Once his lover, Viswadha demanded the diamond nosering of his sister-in-law as a gift, and without any hesitation, Vemana promised her to fulfill her wish. He went to his Sister-in-law and forced her to give him her nose ring. Though all his family members and relatives discarded him for his bad habits, his sister-in-law always considered him to be her son. On this occasion when he demanded her nose ring instead of denying she agreed on one condition that he has to take her nose pin from behind while she bent naked. Without a second thought, he agreed to this and when he found his sister-in-law in such a position he understood the reality of life that the worldly pleasures are too temporary and the human body is nothing but filled with faecus and urine and thus renunciate every worldly possession and turned naked for his life and became a sage by turning spiritual.

This story is the best example of dispelling the ignorance or negative qualities of a person, not the person.

The credit for changing a vagabond to a great saint goes to Vemana's sister-in-law.