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- From: N.V.K. Ashraf (@ 203.145.128.61)
on: Wed Jan 16 05:04:35
VALLUVAR and OTHERS....
190. SUM OF VIRTUE
ÁÉòÐì¸ñ Á¡º¢ÄÉ¡¾ø «¨ÉòÐ «Èý
¬ÌÄ ¿£Ã À¢È. (34)
Valluvar:
"A spotless mind is virtue's sum. All else is empty noise"
Jesus:
"Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God"
(Mathew, 5:8)
- From: N.V.K. Ashraf (@ 203.145.128.61) on: Sat Jan 19 03:21:34
VALLUVAR and OTHERS....
191. ONE without LIKES & DISLIKES
§Åñξø §Åñ¼¡¨Á Ä¡ý«Ê §º÷ó¾¡÷ìÌ
¡ñÎõ Îõ¨À Ä. (4)
Valluvar:
"Never harmed are those who clasp the feet of the one beyond likes and hates"
Bible:
"For the LORD your God is God of gods, ...... which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward"
(Deuteronomy, 10:17)
- From: N.V.K. Ashraf (@ 203.145.128.61) on: Sun Jan 20 02:13:20
VALLUVAR and OTHERS....
1192. WISE and MISFORTUNE
¦ÅûÇòÐ «¨É Îõ¨À «È¢×¨¼Â¡ý
¯ûÇò¾¢ý ¯ûÇì ¦¸Îõ. (622)
Valluvar:
"Misfortune may rise like a flood. A bold thought will quell it"
Sri Narayana Pandit (1675):
"Even in calamities, the clever minded are not perplexed"
(Hitopadesa, I.5)
- From: chandru (@ 61.11.44.70) on: Sun Jan 20 13:01:16
nothing
- From: N.V.K. Ashraf (@ 203.145.128.61) on: Mon Jan 21 01:53:45
VALLUVAR and OTHERS....
193. DECEIVING YOURSELFE
¦Åñ¨Á ±ÉôÀÎÅР¡¦¾É¢ý ´ñ¨Á
¯¨¼Âõ¡õ ±ýÛõ ¦ºÕìÌ. (844)
Valluvar:
"Folly is nothing but the conceit that one is wise"
Bible:
"If a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself"
(Galatians, 6:3)
- From: N.V.K. Ashraf (@ 203.145.128.61) on: Tue Jan 22 06:00:06
VALLUVAR and OTHERS....
194. SLACKNESS and RICHNESS
Àʯ¨¼Â¡÷ ÀüȨÁó¾ì ¸ñÏõ Áʯ¨¼Â¡÷
Á¡ñÀÂý ±ö¾ø «Ã¢Ð. (606)
Valluvar:
"The slothful will not gain even with powerful aid"
Solomon:
"He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand"
(Proverbs, 10:4)
- From: N.V.K. Ashraf (@ 203.145.128.61) on: Tue Jan 22 23:59:07
VALLUVAR and OTHERS....
195. BIRTH and DEATH
¯ÈíÌÅÐ §À¡Öõ º¡ì¸¡Î ¯Èí¸¢
ŢƢôÀÐ §À¡Öõ À¢ÈôÒ. (339)
Valluvar:
"Death is like sleep and birth an awakening"
Upanishad:
"As a man passes from dream to wakefulness, so does he pass at death from this life to the next"
(Brihadaranyaka Up., 4.3.34)
Muhammad:
"Sleep is the brother of death"
(Hadith)
Wordsworth:
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting"
Toaism:
"Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end"
(Chuang Tzu, 23)
Heraclitus:
"Life and death, waking and sleep, youth and age are one and the same thing, for one changes into the other, that into this"
H.W. Longfellow:
"There is no death. What seems so is transition"
Valluvar:
"The sleeping do not differ from the dead" (Ðﺢɡ÷ ¦ºò¾¡Ã¢ý §ÅÈøÄ÷)
Kural, 926)
- From: shanti (@ ce1.time.net.my) on: Wed Jan 23 06:58:19
good
- From: N.V.K. Ashraf (@ 203.145.128.61) on: Thu Jan 24 00:24:15
VALLUVAR and OTHERS....
196. KING RECIEVING GIFTS
§Å¦Ä¡Î ¿¢ýÈ¡ý ΦÅýÈÐ §À¡Öõ
§¸¡¦Ä¡Î ¿¢ýÈ¡ý Ã×. (552)
Valluvar:
"A king's request for gifts is a bandit's demand, "Stand and deliver".
Solomon:
"A king that receiveth gifts overthroweth it (land)"
( Proverbs, 29:4)
- From: Breeze (@ 203.199.207.198) on: Fri Jan 25 07:06:38
One of the good thriukurals...
"Avviya Nenjjathaan Aakamum Sevviyaan
Keadum Ninaikap padum"
The wicked hearted person wealth and good man's poverty has to be pondered!!
- From: N.V.K. Ashraf (@ 203.145.128.61) on: Sun Jan 27 02:53:13
I agree. It is Kural 169. In fact I had posted this at posting no 154, with parallel quotations from others.
VALLUVAR and OTHERS....
154. ENVIOUS and the GOOD
«ùŢ ¦¿ïºò¾¡ý ¬ì¸Óõ ¦ºùŢ¡ý
§¸Îõ ¿¢¨Éì¸ô ÀÎõ. (169)
Valluvar:
"The prosperity of the envious and the misfortune of the good will make men
think and reflect"
Buddha:
"Life is easy enough for the shameless, corrupted, the crow-hero type of
man.
But it is hard for the man of conscience, always striving after purity"
(Dhammapada-144-45)
Sri Aurobindo:
"Be not deceived by men's show of virtue, neither disgusted by their open or
secret vices"
(Thoughts & Aphorisms)
David:
"Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the
workers of iniquity"
(Psalm, 37:1)
- From: N.V.K. Ashraf (@ 203.145.128.61) on: Sun Jan 27 02:55:25
VALLUVAR and OTHERS....
197. WISE SON BRINGS JOY
¾õÁ¢ý ¾õÁì¸û «È¢×¨¼¨Á Á¡¿¢ÄòÐ
ÁýÛ¢÷ìÌ ±øÄ¡õ É¢Ð. (68)
Valluvar:
"A wise son gives joy not only to his father but to all the world"
Solomon:
"A wise son maketh a glad father........"
(Proverbs, 10:1)
- From: Uthman (@ espeed26-200.brunet.bn) on: Mon Jan 28 22:56:36
Wow! What a good Job for Tamil!
Vazhka Tamil!
- From: N.V.K. Ashraf (@ 203.145.128.61) on: Tue Jan 29 03:04:26
VALLUVAR and OTHERS....
198. ASPIRATIONS OF MEN
´Õ¦À¡ØÐõ Å¡úÅÐ «È¢Â¡÷ ¸ÕÐÀ
§¸¡ÊÔõ «øÄ ÀÄ. (337)
Valluvar:
"Men unsure of the next moment make more than a million plans"
La Rochefoucauld (1613-80)
"Men who are mortals, their aspirations are however immortal"
(Maxim)
- From: PUSPARAJA (@ 210.186.216.53) on: Wed Jan 30 00:01:13
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- From: N.V.K. Ashraf (@ 203.145.128.61) on: Sat Jan 19 03:21:34
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