Thirukural can be our potential Life Manual. It has everything that we need... Just everything! 😇 This is my attempt to take the essence of Thirukural through Illustrations. I call it Illustrated Thirukural!
kural 788:
Translation:
As hand of him whose vesture slips away,
Friendship at once the coming grief will stay.
Friendship at once the coming grief will stay.
Explanation:
(True) friendship hastens to the rescue of the afflicted (as readily) as the hand of one whose garment is loosened (before an assembly).
Kural: 77
Translation:
As sun's fierce ray dries up the boneless things,
So loveless beings virtue's power to nothing brings.
Explanation:So loveless beings virtue's power to nothing brings.
Virtue will burn up the soul which is without love, even as the sun burns up the creature which is without bone, i.e. worms.
Kural: 100
Translation:
When pleasant words are easy, bitter words to use,
Is, leaving sweet ripe fruit, the sour unripe to choose.
Is, leaving sweet ripe fruit, the sour unripe to choose.
Explanation:
To say disagreeable things when agreeable are at hand is like eating unripe fruit when there is ripe.
Kural 843:
Translation:
With keener anguish foolish men their own hearts wring,
Than aught that even malice of their foes can bring.
Than aught that even malice of their foes can bring.
Explanation:
The suffering that fools inflict upon themselves is hardly possible even to foes.
Kural 423:
Translation:
Though things diverse from divers sages' lips we learn,
'Tis wisdom's part in each the true thing to discern.
'Tis wisdom's part in each the true thing to discern.
Explanation:
To discern the truth in every thing, by whomsoever spoken, is wisdom.
Kural 624:
Translation:
Like bullock struggle on through each obstructed way;
From such an one will troubles, troubled, roll away.
From such an one will troubles, troubled, roll away.
Explanation:
Troubles will vanish (i.e., will be troubled) before the man who (struggles against difficulties) as a buffalo (drawing a cart) through deep mire.
Kural 411:
Translation:
Wealth of wealth is wealth acquired be ear attent;
Wealth mid all wealth supremely excellent.
Wealth mid all wealth supremely excellent.
Explanation:
Wealth (gained) by the ear is wealth of wealth; that wealth is the chief of all wealth.
Kural 315:
Translation:
From wisdom's vaunted lore what doth the learner gain,
If as his own he guard not others' souls from pain?.
If as his own he guard not others' souls from pain?.
Explanation:
What benefit has he derived from his knowledge, who does not endeavor to keep off pain from another as much as from himself ?.
Kural 241:
Translation:
Wealth 'mid wealth is wealth 'kindliness';
Wealth of goods the vilest too possess.
Wealth of goods the vilest too possess.
Explanation:
The wealth of kindness is wealth of wealth, in as much as the wealth of property is possessed by the basest of men.
Kural 102:
Translation:
A timely benefit, -though thing of little worth,
The gift itself, -in excellence transcends the earth.
The gift itself, -in excellence transcends the earth.
Explanation:
A favor conferred in the time of need, though it be small (in itself), is (in value) much larger than the world.
Kural 72:
Translation:
The loveless to themselves belong alone;
The loving men are others' to the very bone.
The loving men are others' to the very bone.
Explanation:
Those who are destitute of love appropriate all they have to themselves; but those who possess love consider even their bones to belong to others.
Kural 11:
Translation:
The world its course maintains through life that rain unfailing gives;
Thus rain is known the true ambrosial food of all that lives.
Thus rain is known the true ambrosial food of all that lives.
Explanation:
By the continuance of rain the world is preserved in existence; it is therefore worthy to be called ambrosia.
Kural 1032:
Translation:
The ploughers are the linch-pin of the world; they bear
Them up who other works perform, too weak its toils to share.
Them up who other works perform, too weak its toils to share.
Explanation:
Agriculturists are (as it were) the linch-pin of the world for they support all other workers who cannot till the soil.
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