Monday, April 7, 2014

KURAL IS BOTH A DIET AND MEDICINE FOR BODY AND MIND

As is well known Thirukkural text has a perpetual meaning, relevance and content for anyone who wants to follow righteous methods and live a simple and decent life, freed from inflated ago, arrogance and all kinds of devilish spirit.   Regardless of one’s language or culture, geographical, and economic space into which he or she has to live, this text has a context and relevance as an ideal medicine or diet to take care of both body and mind.
True, many of the couplets and indeed all of them are hard real truths very difficult to follow and any typical ordinary human, cannot just like that follow, everything told there, for it demands a far more stringent attitude and discipline , strength of character, will power and good parental genes.   Every couplet is bristling with meaning, a relevance and shows a clear a path as to how to improve and prosper in our life, in all walks of life without walking away from dharma.   In the following, a modest attempt is being made to capture the flavor smells and sounds of the subject called ‘love’, the idealized love as conceptualized by kural.  
A well learned and highly disciplined man, full of good character and attitude - a handsome man, steps into an arena of life.   At this prime teenage, he understands that his life does not merely centre around him, but instead revolves round another soul; he is intelligent enough to understand that his peace and happiness are his own; he is the author of both, he knows full well that,  but it’s only partly true, he feels.   The other half of his bliss, he rightly feels rest with the other person and without her/he cannot go on in this life journey.   It is something natural and normal for a fully grown up male getting attracted by the other half of himself - a girl of his liking and choice.


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