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# Tirukural/Chapter 24

Kural-231 See that thy life the praise of generous gifts obtain; Save this for living man exists no real gain. Give to the poor and live with praise. There is no greater profit to man than that.
Kural-232 The speech of all that speak agrees to crown The men that give to those that ask, with fair renown. Whatsoever is spoken in the world will abide as praise upon that man who gives alms to the poor.
Kural-233 Save praise alone that soars on high, Nought lives on earth that shall not die. There is nothing that stands forth in the world imperishable, except fame, exalted in solitary greatness.
Kural-234 If men do virtuous deeds by world-wide ample glory crowned, The heavens will cease to laud the sage for other gifts renowned. If one has acquired extensive fame within the limits of this earth, the world of the Gods will no longer praise those sages who have attained that world.
Kural-235 Loss that is gain, and death of life's true bliss fulfilled, Are fruits which only wisdom rare can yield. Prosperity to the body of fame, resulting in poverty to the body of flesh and the stability to the former arising from the death of the latter, are achievable only by the wise.
Kural-236 If man you walk the stage, appear adorned with glory's grace; Save glorious you can shine, 'twere better hide your face. If you are born (in this world), be born with qualities conductive to fame. From those who are destitute of them it will be better not to be born.
Kural-237 If you your days will spend devoid of goodly fame, When men despise, why blame them? You've yourself to blame. Why do those who cannot live with praise, grieve those who despise them, instead of grieving themselves for their own inability.
Kural-238 Fame is virtue's child, they say; if, then, You childless live, you live the scorn of men. Not to beget fame will be esteemed a disgrace by the wise in this world.
Kural-239 The blameless fruits of fields' increase will dwindle down, If earth the burthen bear of men without renown. The ground which supports a body without fame will diminish in its rich produce.
Kural-240 Who live without reproach, them living men we deem; Who live without renown, live not, though living men they seem. Those live who live without disgrace. Those who live without fame live not.
# Tirukural/Chapter 25

Kural-241 Wealth 'mid wealth is wealth 'kindliness'; Wealth of goods the vilest too possess. The wealth of kindness is wealth of wealth, in as much as the wealth of property is possessed by the basest of men.
Kural-242 The law of 'grace' fulfil, by methods good due trial made, Though many systems you explore, this is your only aid. (Stand) in the good path, consider, and be kind. Even considering according to the conflicting tenets of the different sects, kindness will be your best aid, (in the acquisition of heavenly bliss.)
Kural-243 They in whose breast a 'gracious kindliness' resides, See not the gruesome world, where darkness drear abides. They will never enter the world of darkness and wretchedness whose minds are the abode of kindness.
Kural-244 Who for undying souls of men provides with gracious zeal, In his own soul the dreaded guilt of sin shall never feel. (The wise) say that the evils, which his soul would dread, will never come upon the man who exercises kindness and protects the life (of other creatures)
Kural-245 The teeming earth's vast realm, round which the wild winds blow, Is witness, men of 'grace' no woeful want shall know. This great rich earth over which the wind blows, is a witness that sorrow never comes upon the kind-hearted.
Kural-246 Gain of true wealth oblivious they eschew, Who 'grace' forsake, and graceless actions do. (The wise) say that those who neglect kindness and practise cruelties, neglected virtue (in their former birth), and forgot (the sorrows which they must suffer.)
Kural-247 As to impoverished men this present world is not; The 'graceless' in you world have neither part nor lot. As this world is not for those who are without wealth, so that world is not for those who are without kindness.
Kural-248 Who lose the flower of wealth, when seasons change, again may bloom; Who lose 'benevolence', lose all; nothing can change their doom. Those who are without wealth may, at some future time, become prosperous; those who are destitute of kindness are utterly destitute; for them there is no change.
Kural-249 When souls unwise true wisdom's mystic vision see, The 'graceless' man may work true works of charity. If you consider, the virtue of him who is without kindness is like the perception of the true being by him who is without wisdom.
Kural-250 When weaker men you front with threat'ning brow, Think how you felt in presence of some stronger foe. When a man is about to rush upon those who are weaker than himself, let him remember how he has stood (trembling) before those who are stronger than himself.
# Tirukural/Chapter 28

Kural - 271 Who with deceitful mind in false way walks of covert sin, The five-fold elements his frame compose, decide within. The five elements (of his body) will laugh within him at the feigned conduct of the deceitful minded man.
Kural - 272 What gain, though virtue's semblance high as heaven his fame exalt, If heart dies down through sense of self-detected fault? What avails an appearance (of sanctity) high as heaven, if his mind suffers (the indulgence) of conscious sin.
Kural - 273 As if a steer should graze wrapped round with tiger's skin, Is show of virtuous might when weakness lurks within. The assumed appearance of power, by a man who has no power (to restrain his senses and perform austerity), is like a cow feeding on grass covered with a tiger's skin.
Kural - 274 'Tis as a fowler, silly birds to snare, in thicket lurks. When, clad in stern ascetic garb, one secret evil works. He who hides himself under the mask of an ascetic and commits sins, like a sportsman who conceals himself in the thicket to catch birds.
Kural - 275 'Our souls are free,' who say, yet practise evil secretly, 'What folly have we wrought!' by many shames o'er-whelmed, shall cry. The false conduct of those who say they have renounced all desire will one day bring them sorrows that will make them cry out, "Oh! what have we done, what have we done."
Kural - 276 In mind renouncing nought, in speech renouncing every tie, Who guileful live,- no men are found than these of 'harder eye'. Amongst living men there are none so hard-hearted as those who without to saking (desire) in their heart, falsely take the appearance of those who have forsaken (it).
Kural - 277 Outward, they shine as 'kunri' berry's scarlet bright; Inward, like tip of 'kunri' bead, as black as night. (The world) contains persons whose outside appears (as fair) as the (red) berry of the Abrus, but whose inside is as black as the nose of that berry.
Kural - 278 Many wash in hollowed waters, living lives of hidden shame; Foul in heart, yet high upraised of men in virtuous fame. There are many men of masked conduct, who perform their ablutions, and (make a show) of greatness, while their mind is defiled (with guilt).
Kural - 279 Cruel is the arrow straight, the crooked lute is sweet, Judge by their deeds the many forms of men you meet. As, in its use, the arrow is crooked, and the curved lute is straight, so by their deeds, (and not by their appearance) let (the uprightness or crookedness of) men be estimated.
Kural - 280 What's the worth of shaven head or tresses long, If you shun what all the world condemns as wrong? There is no need of a shaven crown, nor of tangled hair, if a man abstain from those deeds which the wise have condemned.
# Tirukural/Chapter 3

Kural-21 The settled rule of every code requires, as highest good, Their greatness who, renouncing all, true to their rule have stood. The end and aim of all treatise is to extol beyond all other excellence, the greatness of those who, while abiding in the rule of conduct peculiar to their state, have abandoned all desire.
Kural-22 As counting those that from the earth have passed away, 'Tis vain attempt the might of holy men to say. To describe the measure of the greatness of those who have forsaken the two-fold desires, is like counting the dead.
Kural-23 Their greatness earth transcends, who, way of both worlds weighed, In this world take their stand, in virtue's robe arrayed. The greatness of those who have discovered the properties of both states of being, and renounced the world, shines forth on earth (beyond all others).
Kural-24 He, who with firmness, curb the five restrains, Is seed for soil of yonder happy plains. He who guides his five senses by the hook of wisdom will be a seed in the world of heaven.
Kural-25 Their might who have destroyed 'the five', shall soothly tell Indra, the lord of those in heaven's wide realms that dwell. Indra, the king of the inhabitants of the spacious heaven, is himself, a sufficient proof of the strength of him who has subdued his five senses.
Kural-26 Things hard in the doing will great men do; Things hard in the doing the mean eschew. The great will do those things which is difficult to be done; but the mean cannot do them.
Kural-27 Taste, light, touch, sound, and smell: who knows the way Of all the five,- the world submissive owns his sway. The world is within the knowledge of him who knows the properties of taste, sight, touch, hearing and smell.
Kural-28 The might of men whose word is never vain, The 'secret word' shall to the earth proclaim. The hidden words of the men whose words are full of effect, will shew their greatness to the world.
Kural-29 The wrath 'tis hard e'en for an instant to endure, Of those who virtue's hill have scaled, and stand secure. The anger of those who have ascended the mountain of goodness, though it continue but for a moment, cannot be resisted.
Kural-30 Towards all that breathe, with seemly graciousness adorned they live; And thus to virtue's sons the name of 'Anthanar' men give, The virtuous are truly called Anthanar; because in their conduct towards all creatures they are clothed in kindness.
# Tirukural/Chapter 27

Kural-261 To bear due penitential pains, while no offence He causes others, is the type of 'penitence'. The nature of religious discipline consists, in the endurance (by the ascetic) of the sufferings which it brings on himself, and in abstaining from giving pain to others.
Kural-262 To 'penitents' sincere avails their 'penitence'; Where that is not, 'tis but a vain pretence. Austerities can only be borne, and their benefits enjoyed, by those who have practised them (in a former birth); it will be useless for those who have not done so, to attempt to practise them (now).
Kural-263 Have other men forgotten 'penitence' who strive To earn for penitents the things by which they live? It is to provide food etc, for the ascetics who have abandoned (the desire of earthly possessions) that other persons have forgotten (to practise) austerity ?
Kural-264 Destruction to his foes, to friends increase of joy. The 'penitent' can cause, if this his thoughts employ. If (the ascetic) desire the destruction of his enemies, or the aggrandizement of his friends, it will be effected by (the power of) his austerities.
Kural-265 That what they wish may, as they wish, be won, By men on earth are works of painful 'penance' done. Religious dislipline is practised in this world, because it secures the attainment of whatever one may wish to enjoy (in the world to come).
Kural-266 Who works of 'penance' do, their end attain, Others in passion's net enshared, toil but in vain. Those discharge their duty who perform austerities; all others accomplish their own destruction, through the entanglement of the desire (of riches and sensual pleasure).
Kural-267 The hotter glows the fining fire, the gold the brighter shines; The pain of penitence, like fire, the soul of man refines. Just as gold is purified as heated in the fire, will those shine, who have endured the burning of pain (in frequent austerities).
Kural-268 Who gains himself in utter self-control, Him worships every other living soul. All other creatures will worship him who has attained the control of his own soul.
Kural-269 E'en over death the victory he may gain, If power by penance won his soul obtain. Those who have attained the power which religious discipline confers, will be able also to pass the limit of Yama, (the God of death).
Kural-270 The many all things lack! The cause is plain, The 'penitents' are few. The many shun such pain. Because there are few who practise austerity and many who do not, there are many destitute and few rich in this world.
# Tirukural/Chapter 30

Kural - 291 You ask, in lips of men what 'truth' may be; 'Tis speech from every taint of evil free. Truth is the speaking of such words as are free from the least degree of evil (to others).
Kural - 292 Falsehood may take the place of truthful word, If blessing, free from fault, it can afford. Even falsehood has the nature of truth, if it confer a benefit that is free from fault.
Kural - 293 Speak not a word which false thy own heart knows Self-kindled fire within the false one's spirit glows. Let not a man knowingly tell a lie; for after he has told the lie, his mind will burn him (with the memory of his guilt).
Kural - 294 True to his inmost soul who lives,- enshrined He lives in souls of all mankind. He who, in his conduct, preserves a mind free from deceit, will dwell in the minds of all men.
Kural - 295 Greater is he who speaks the truth with full consenting mind. Than men whose lives have penitence and charity combined. He, who speaks truth with all his heart, is superior to those who make gifts and practise austerities.
Kural - 296 No praise like that of words from falsehood free; This every virtue yields spontaneously. There is no praise like the praise of never uttering a falsehood: without causing any suffering, it will lead to every virtue.
Kural - 297 If all your life be utter truth, the truth alone, 'Tis well, though other virtuous acts be left undone. If a man has the power to abstain from falsehood, it will be well with him, even though he practise no other virtue.
Kural - 298 Outward purity the water will bestow; Inward purity from truth alone will flow. Purity of body is produced by water and purity of mind by truthfulness.
Kural - 299 Every lamp is not a lamp in wise men's sight; That's the lamp with truth's pure radiance bright. All lamps of nature are not lamps; the lamp of truth is the lamp of the wise.
Kural - 300 Of all good things we've scanned with studious care, There's nought that can with truthfulness compare. Amidst all that we have seen (described) as real (excellence), there is nothing so good as truthfulness.
# Tirukural/Chapter 31

Kural - 301 Where thou hast power thy angry will to work, thy wrath restrain; Where power is none, what matter if thou check or give it rein? He restrains his anger who restrains it when it can injure; when it cannot injure, what does it matter whether he restrain it, or not ?
Kural - 302 Where power is none to wreak thy wrath, wrath importent is ill; Where thou hast power thy will to work, 'tis greater, evil still. Anger is bad, even when it cannot injure; when it can injure; there is no greater evil.
Kural - 303 If any rouse thy wrath, the trespass straight forget; For wrath an endless train of evils will beget. Forget anger towards every one, as fountains of evil spring from it.
Kural - 304 Wrath robs the face of smiles, the heart of joy, What other foe to man works such annoy? Is there a greater enemy than anger, which kills both laughter and joy ?
Kural - 305 If thou would'st guard thyself, guard against wrath alway; 'Gainst wrath who guards not, him his wrath shall slay. If a man would guard himself, let him guard against anger; if he do not guard it, anger will kill him.
Kural - 306 Wrath, the fire that slayeth whose draweth near, Will burn the helpful 'raft' of kindred dear. The fire of anger will burn up even the pleasant raft of friendship.
Kural - 307 The hand that smites the earth unfailing feels the sting; So perish they who nurse their wrath as noble thing. Destruction will come upon him who ragards anger as a good thing, as surely as the hand of him who strikes the ground will not fail.
Kural - 308 Though men should work thee woe, like touch of tongues of fire. 'Tis well if thou canst save thy soul from burning ire. Though one commit things against you as painful (to bear) as if a bundle of fire had been thrust upon you, it will be well, to refrain, if possible, from anger.
Kural - 309 If man his soul preserve from wrathful fires, He gains with that whate'er his soul desires. If a man never indulges anger in his heart, he will at once obtain whatever he has thought of.
Kural - 310 Men of surpassing wrath are like the men who've passed away; Who wrath renounce, equals of all-renouncing sages they. Those, who give way to excessive anger, are no better than dead men; but those, who are freed from it, are equal to those who are freed (from death).
# Tirukural/Chapter 26

Kural-251 How can the wont of 'kindly grace' to him be known, Who other creatures' flesh consumes to feed his own? How can he be possessed of kindness, who to increase his own flesh, eats the flesh of other creatures.
Kural-252 No use of wealth have they who guard not their estate; No use of grace have they with flesh who hunger sate. As those possess no property who do not take care of it, so those possess no kindness who feed on flesh.
Kural-253 Like heart of them that murderous weapons bear, his mind, Who eats of savoury meat, no joy in good can find. Like the (murderous) mind of him who carries a weapon (in his hand), the mind of him who feasts with pleasure on the body of another (creature), has no regard for goodness.
Kural-254 'What's grace, or lack of grace'? 'To kill' is this, that 'not to kill'; To eat dead flesh can never worthy end fulfil. If it be asked what is kindness and what its opposite, the answer would be preservation and destruction of life; and therefore it is not right to feed on the flesh (obtained by taking away life).
Kural-255 If flesh you eat not, life's abodes unharmed remain; Who eats, hell swallows him, and renders not again. Not to eat flesh contributes to the continuance of life; therefore if a man eat flesh, hell will not open its mouth (to let him escape out, after he has once fallen in).
Kural-256 'We eat the slain,' you say, by us no living creatures die; Who'd kill and sell, I pray, if none came there the flesh to buy? If the world does not destroy life for the purpose of eating, then no one would sell flesh for the sake of money.
Kural-257 With other beings' ulcerous wounds their hunger they appease; If this they felt, desire to eat must surely cease. If men should come to know that flesh is nothing but the unclean ulcer of a body, let them abstain from eating it.
Kural-258 Whose souls the vision pure and passionless perceive, Eat not the bodies men of life bereave. The wise, who have freed themselves from mental delusion, will not eat the flesh which has been severed from an animal.
Kural-259 Than thousand rich oblations, with libations rare, Better the flesh of slaughtered beings not to share. Not to kill and eat (the flesh of) an animal, is better than the pouring forth of ghee etc., in a thousand sacrifices.
Kural-260 Who slays nought,- flesh rejects- his feet before All living things with clasped hands adore. All creatures will join their hands together, and worship him who has never taken away life, nor eaten flesh.
# Tirukural/Chapter 29

Kural - 281 Who seeks heaven's joys, from impious levity secure, Let him from every fraud preserve his spirit pure. Let him, who desires not to be despised, keep his mind from (the desire of) defrauding another of the smallest thing.
Kural - 282 'Tis sin if in the mind man but thought conceive; 'By fraud I will my neighbour of his wealth bereave.' Even the thought (of sin) is sin; think not then of crafiily stealing the property of another.
Kural - 283 The gain that comes by fraud, although it seems to grow With limitless increase, to ruin swift shall go. The property, which is acquired by fraud, will entirely perish, even while it seems to increase.
Kural - 284 The lust inveterate of fraudful gain, Yields as its fruit undying pain. The eager desire of defrauding others will, when it brings forth its fruit, produce undying sorrow.
Kural - 285 'Grace' is not in their thoughts, nor know they kind affection's power, Who neighbour's goods desire, and watch for his unguarded hour. The study of kindness and the exercise of benevolence is not with those who watch for another's forgetfulness, though desire of his property.
Kural - 286 They cannot walk restrained in wisdom's measured bound, In whom inveterate lust of fraudful gain is found. They cannot walk steadfastly, according to rule, who eagerly desire to defraud others.
Kural - 287 Practice of fraud's dark cunning arts they shun, Who long for power by 'measured wisdom' won. That black-knowledge which is called fraud, is not in those who desire that greatness which is called rectitude.
Kural - 288 As virtue dwells in heart that 'measured wisdom' gains; Deceit in hearts of fraudful men established reigns. Deceit dwells in the mind of those who are conversant with fraud, even as virtue in the minds of those who are conversant with rectitude.
Kural - 289 Who have no lore save that which fraudful arts supply, Acts of unmeasured vice committing straightway die. Those, who are acquainted with nothing but fraud, will perish in the very commission of transgression.
Kural - 290 The fraudful forfeit life and being here below; Who fraud eschew the bliss of heavenly beings know. Even their body will fail the fraudulent; but even the world of the gods will not fail those who are free from fraud.
# Tower of Ivory/Ballade

BALLADE
"A pilgrim cowled in light is love,
Who kneels at many shrines and prays."
So sang I knowing naught thereof.
"He kneels beside the thronging ways
And ever in the dust he lays
His reverent soul at Mary's feet
Beneath her all-caressing gaze.
For only dreams of love are sweet."
"And lo, a pagan god is love,
His shining head bound round with bays."
So sang I knowing nought thereof.
"He breathes the breath of burning Mays
Plucking from Autumn's lap of days
Gold fruits of life to crush and eat,
Yet lustful are his lips always,
For only dreams of love are sweet."
But last I learned the truth of love,
That carnal love the world obeys.
'Tis but a web which Gaea wove
With warp of pain and weft of days,
Where vast, insensate, o'er the haze
Of mortal dreams she has her seat,—
A web to catch whom soon she slays.
For only dreams of love are sweet.
Envoy
The shadows in the windy wheat,
And throstle notes than roundelays.
For only dreams of love are sweet.
# Tower of Ivory/Certain Poets

CERTAIN POETS
Oh, words and words and words,—a twittering blur
Of sparrow wings that puff up from the rye
When something hidden stirs there; up they fly
A wheeling, huddled, undecided whir,
And what it was aroused them, Pan or cur,
Appears not,—save that 'twas a prodigy,
A portent sure, and, with its passing by,
A new world dawned, and grubs and rye-fields were.
And so their verses go,—a clamorous puff
Of words unformed, unbeautiful, distraught,
That eddy in the mood like feathered stuff,
And underneath the sound of them a thought,
Of something hidden stirring,—like enough
Apocalypse or naughtiness—or naught.
A portent then! a dumb and groping urge
Of something blind like voices in a mist;
'Lord, but it 'wilders one! To feel it twist
Old earth with iron, mutter in the forge,
Threaten in smoke;—why, look you, we're a-verge
Of worlds undreamt, and every silly fist
That curses God's a sign! There's wondrous grist
A-grinding, wondrous new-sown corn a-surge.'
New worlds! These things were seedling in dead Cain.
But you, for you old magics yet remain
Of restless whispering winds that press along
Dim casements of the sense-enshuttered brain.
Beauty has called you, and the worlds that wane
From crescent into crescent of thin song.