| Kural - The Great Book Of Tiru-Valluvar |
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| Books By Rajaji |
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PUBLIC ESTEEM |
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| Poverty
is wealth if it is brought about for causes that raise a man in the
esteem of the world. Death under certain circumstances is life
everlasting. Such poverty which is not poverty and such death
which is not death but life, come only to those who understand true
values:
When men have not lived so as to earn the esteem of good men, why do they not see and grieve over their own fault but blame the world that refuses to esteem them? According to commentators, chapters 25 to 38 of Kural, from which the following selections have been taken, deal with matters of special significance to the order of ascetics and monastic life. When Kural was written, large numbers of people in the South of the Jain and Buddhist denominations were solemnly pledged to a monastic life. |
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| About Public Esteem | ||||
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