WRITTEN by London Swaminathan
Date: 28 MARCH 2018
Time uploaded in London – 16-47
Post No. 4859
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(பிறர் எழுதியதைத் திருடுபவனும் பிறர் மனைவியைத் திருடுபவனும் பிறர் பொருளைத் திருடுபவனும் ஒன்றே – ஐன்ஸ்டீனின் அண்ணன், பெர்னார்ட் ஷாவின் தம்பி, காந்திஜியின் தாத்தா சொன்னது)
It gives great pleasure to see the same thoughts in two great men Chanakya (3rd century BCE) and Tiruvalluvar (Fourth or Fifth Century CE dated linguistically, first century BCE dated politically).
On Education
Handsome and young , born in high families, if uneducated, would look no good like the Kimsuka trees with no fragrance.
Chankaya Niti 3-5
Tamil Poet Tiruvalluvar says,
Those who are unable to elucidate their learning are like a cluster of blossoms without fragrance- Kural 650
Letters and Numbers are the two eyes of man – Kural 392
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Learned Men = Citizens of the World!
A learned man wins admiration in the world, he gets honour, everything is obtained through knowledge, knowledge is revered everywhere- 8-20
What excessive weight is there for those possessed of strength,?
what is distant for the energetic,
what is a foreign country for the learned and
who is alien for the one with sweet tongue?
3- 13
Tamil Poet Tiruvalluvar says,
The learned find their home and town everywhere. Why not learn and learn till death –Kural 397
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Ugly ones and Educated
The beauty of cuckoos is in their sweet cooing, that of women in their faithfulness and loyalty to their husbands, that of ugly ones in their knowledge and that of ascetics in forgiveness.
3-6
Tiruvalluvar says,
A wife who may not worship God but wakes up with worshipful devotion to her husband has the power to make rain fall at her bidding- Kural 55
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Knowledge is Kamadhenu
Knowledge has in it the quality of the desire-yielding cow. It yields fruit even when there is no season for it. In foreign sojourn it acts like other. Knowledge is accepted as a secret treasure.4-5
Learning is the lasting joyful wealth; all other material wealth are lost in time – Kural 400
The heritage of culture acquired in one birth lasts to the seventh- Kural 399
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Lower Birth and Higher Birth
What one has to do with a high family where there is no education. One born in a low family, if learned, is adored even by gods 8-19
Tiruvalluvar says,
Though high-born, an unlettered man is deemed lower than a leaned man of lower birth – Kural 409
(I have already compared this to Sangam Tamil verse Purananuru 183 and Manu Smrti 10-65, 2-240, 2-234).
–subham-
