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“Erakumi Kasugayala Durakumi bandhujanula doshamu summi Parakumi ranamuna Meerakumi guruvunagna medina Sumathi”   The English translation is something like this Do not collect unripe fruits Do not point out errors of relatives Do not run away from battle Do not go above the order given by your teacher   This is a simple poem taught to the young students in Andhra giving them four important principles in life.   The first line asks the students not to collect unripe fruits when collecting the fruits for immediate consumption. Many types of unripe fruits taste different from the ripe one. For example a ripe mango tastes totally different from a raw mango. By collecting the unripe fruits one will be wasting the resources as they may not be useful and may be thrown away.   The second line talks about not pointing out the errors of relatives as this will alienate them. By alienating the relatives we may not be able to expec...

 Today am discussing a poem which at first sight appears to be meaningless but one can find a hidden meaning in this poem “ Adharam gadaliyu, gadalaka Madhuramulagu bhashaludigi mounavratudau Adikara roga puritha Badhirantaka savamu juda bapamu Sumathi” The translation looks something like this (part of the last line is taken to first) It is a sin to see a dead body (rather living dead person) whose lips can move but does not move does not talk properly (sweetly is the word used) or keep his mouth shut Suffers from the power and acts blind and deaf A first look shows that this poem looks a meaningless group of words. If one start looking at the overall meaning then it becomes clear. We come across several types of people in our day to day interactions with people. This poem talks about a certain set of people, who even though can put in a word for benefit / good of some one or society will not do so. These people may be opinion makers who with th...

Sumathi Sataka is a set of 100 four line poems written in Telugu around 800 years back. The poems were widely quoted even by commoners in their day to day conversations up to 60s and 70s. With the growing importance of English language studies over the past 3-4 decades, very few popular poems are now part of the language studies in the lower classes for students. Naturally most of the poems are not known to the current generations. This is a small attempt to introduce these poems to the current generation and their relevance to the current society. Each of the poems end with a word "SUMATHI" which is generally known as makuta (header). Sumathi can be broken into two parts su - good, mathi - mind / nature. That is good nature / good minded. Sataka means hundred. This book contains one hundred (it will be 108 actually) poems in Telugu which deal with the happenings in the society which are compared to some examples which are again from the common happenings. The third line ...