Verses 320–329

320. Urine turns into excellence. Birth is sure by its means. Being born it turns to gold and a man of excellence. All those unchangeable souls that believe in thee, thou shall make acceptable as the blessed above O Vemana.

321. The woman that cannot give meat or drink is deceitful. If then in a succeeding birth, if she wish for food shall she gain it? This is like longing for a vest?

322. They who in time of need sell for an inferior price; these are the men who in such circumstances hang even in diminished price. Why should they who accept it consent? Besides should they ever have agreed, still the act is not befitting (I doubt the meaning of this intricate stupidity).

323. If thou bound a linga on a bhavi and burn something that is bhavi and wear its ashes, shall one who is bhavi be unable to see Siva, because ye choose to exclude him.

324. If thou bestow the exalted vaishnava sect on one of debased caste and call him superior to Brahmins, this is like cleaning a toddy pot and filling it with the water of Ganges at Benares.

325. He who unasked bestows his property--this is the Brahmin Saint. He who gives only when asked is a mere giver But he who is poor as to beg again of him who has solicited his aid, is the Siva Saint.

326. What did Parasurama gain by slaying his mother at his father's advice? Was he not deprived of all shadows of refuge to stand by him and driven to malayadri?

327. There are abundance of those who recite the (tantra) treatises on religion. But there are none who mention the mantras. They have become powerless as the puppets of a show man.

328. Are not all those who revile Siva ashamed when they view the form Dacshu, the ram faced, and after seeing the precious dignity of adultery who would commit adultery?

329. What is the cause that being born in water and grown in water; he puts water away from him and uniting himself with women, he relies on this fleeting body.