Thirukkural - A Treasure of Wisdom

" I wanted to learn Tamil only to enable me to study Valluvar's Thirukkural through his mother tongue itself. Only a few us know the name of Thiruvalluvar.There is none who has given such a treasure of wisdom like him" - M.K.Gandhi. "There hardly exists in the literature of the world a collection of maxims in which we find such lofty wisom" - 1952 Nobel Price winner Albert Schwetzer Thirukkural is a universal and secular wisdom.

Monday, January 30, 2006

Little drops of water...

It is amazing if we think of the magnitude of rain and hurricanes . But everything starts as a droplet. The vegetation on the other side is also huge and has lot of variety. Each plant variety needs certain amount of water for its growth. Even Grass, a small and yet a common variety of plant cannot survive without a droplet of water. This illustrates how vital is the rain water and why we need to preserve this nature's gift.


Without a tiny droplet of rain,
Even a blade of grass cannot survive !
( Visumpin thuli vilin allal matru ange
Pasumpul thalai kanbu arithu )
- Thirukkural 2 : 6