In plain words
From childhood itself I kept bringing change in people
Subbamma's husband was named Nārāyaṇa Rao. He used to sit by the tulasī altar before his house. When he took to the wrong path, I taught the village children some songs and told them to go past the front of his house singing them.
“Do not go near loose women; you will surely become utterly low; your caste-folk will not let you touch their pots; your kin, seeing you, will drive you out; your friends, seeing you, will beat you with a sandal.”
When all the children went past in a band singing this song, he felt deeply ashamed. He went inside, had the children called and asked, “Who taught you this song?” “Raju taught it to us, sir,” they said. “True, no one but Raju could know this,” he thought. From that day he gave up his bad thoughts and his bad habits. Cartloads of mangoes would come to his house. He would share them out among all the children.
It was in those very days that wristwatches came into use. At that time, in the villages, if anyone wore a watch on his wrist, people looked on him as a big man. Not only that. Under the nose they wore little moustaches, like the ticks that cling to dogs. That was the fashion of the day! With that in view I wrote a song and taught it to the children at school.
“At the end of the left arm, what's that shiny white disc? They tie on a leather strap and let it dangle; what get-ups are these, friend? These are guises not fit to be seen with the eye; what get-ups are these, friend? They shave the long moustaches and clip them and keep four near the nose; what get-ups are these, friend?”