Kural - The Great Book Of Tiru-Valluvar
Major Sections
Books By Rajaji

RECTITUDE

If your thoughts show signs of turning from the path of rectitude, know that misfortune awaits you. You can perceive the swerving of your mind before anyone else sees it. Look upon it as an evil portent and beware. If the man who walks firmly in the path of rectitude thereby loses his worldly possessions, his poverty does not lower him in the estimation of the world. He retains his status in society as if nothing had happened to him.

Let businessmen know that it is good business to protect the interests of others exactly as they do their own. This is the Kural version of the formula that honesty is the best policy. Rectitude is not only dharma but good economic policy also.

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