In plain words
His wife suggested that it would be nice to give Me a collar pin. In those days people thought it a fine thing to wear a collar pin. At once he went out, brought a gold collar pin and fixed it on My collar. I said I did not want it. I do not touch anyone's things, ever. Then Seshama Raju: “He gave it with great love. If you refuse it, that amounts to insulting him,” he said. At his insistence I wore that collar pin.
After I came back to Uravakonda, as I was going to school that collar pin slipped and fell off somewhere. “The worldly bond, become the pin, fell away …” To Me this worldly bond is the same as a pin. It fell away. I said that I must go, to relieve the sufferings of devotees. I threw My books away. There was an excise inspector there, Anjaneyulu. I went into their garden and sat down. He was a great devotee. “Aha, Rāju has come!” With that, overjoyed, he told his wife and had all kinds of dishes made. But I did not touch any of it. Seshama Raju came: “Sathya! Come, let us go home,” he said. It is not My nature to answer back to elders. Yet I said, ‘I will not come.’ When I answered him like that, Seshama Raju was astonished. “Where did this Sathyam get so much courage from?” he thought. As I sat there smiling, he saw a great radiance all round My face. He went home; he thought of sending a telegram to Puttaparthi. In those days a telegram from Uravakonda took a week to reach Puttaparthi. So, through a schoolboy, he sent word to Easwaramma and Pedda Venkamaraju, both, to set out at once and come. Both came. Seshama Raju brought them to Me. “My dear son! Let us go to your brother's house; come!” and Easwaramma wept bitterly. “I will not come anywhere. If you want so much that I should come, I will come with you to Puttaparthi. I will come there, make the villagers happy, and then go as I please,” I said.