| Kural - The Great Book Of Tiru-Valluvar |
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| Books By Rajaji |
ON LUST AND WINE AND GAMBLING |
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is of course to insist on what otherwise may lie neglected as merely supplementary and
inessential. The obviously essential can afford to be left unemphasized. If the Goodman fails to bestow personal attention on his field, then like a neglected wife it turns its face away in loving anger The duties of attention and affection cannot be delegated. Look after your field as after a wife. You cannot delegate your work to others and you must be ever active to earn the response of love. Oodal is the reaction of anger to any real or supposed lapse of attention on the part of the lover or husband. The peasant's field too, like the wife or sweetheart, will forgive and forget as soon as affection and attention and attention are shown again. The good wife Earth laughs at the foolishness of men who sit idle, bemoaning; their poverty when there is land to cultivate which will yield in the measure of your labour-, -it is foolish to bewail your destiny and remain idle and poor. |
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