In plain words
The anna coin alone I took. I had it changed into small coins. Four boṭṭus came. Four boṭṭus make one anna. As I went along with them: ‘Raju! Good luck is with you. Play this buḍabuḍakāṭā,’ a man at the roadside called. There I entered into this gamble. In truth, gambling is no good thing. That very thing is what I have been telling everyone. But at that time, in circumstances I could not escape, I had to play. Because, with these four boṭṭus, something might be earned. Among playing cards there are names: clubs, spades, diamonds. For the stake laid on each card, double and double again came back. I watched. I played until it came to sixteen annas. Just because money was coming to Me in plenty, I must not play on, must I! ‘This is enough for Me now,’ I thought. For Me, contentment is what counts. I gave one boṭṭu. Three dosas for a boṭṭu. One dosa for a dammidi in those days. In this way two boṭṭus were spent a day. Eating dosas like that, I did My duty in the Scouts. At night again I gave two dammidis and got two dosas. Again I slept right there. Some change was still left with Me. I tied that change up in a bundle and put it under My head. Having walked so far, I was very tired. My head, on that heap of sand, slipped a little to one side in My sleep. I, though, slept on, lost to the world. Someone saw all this. Quietly they took away that bundle of change. When I got up at dawn and looked, the bundle was gone. Thinking, all right, I was going on My own way. But My classmates came after Me weeping and begged, ‘Won't you eat even one dosa?’ ‘I have eaten already. My stomach is full. I do not need anyone's money,’ and I went on ahead.
Respecting elders and guarding the family's good name have been My habits from childhood
Another incident from My childhood. Once My whole arm swelled up. I told no one. I went inside, took an old shirt that was there, wet it and bound up the arm. The very next day after this, one of Seshama Raju's sons died.