AN INTRODUCTION TO
THE STUDY OF TIRUVALLUVAR
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A Lecture by Prof.Avvai Duraisami Pillai
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Part – 25
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தாளாற்றித் தந்த பொருள் எல்லாம் தன்கார்க்கு
வேளாண்மை செய்தற் பொருட்டு. (34)
By thus doing, the grateful recepients are brought closer and they serve as a strong army of virtuous protection from evil and sin. Help and assistance rendered to those who deserve form themselves into a social virtue Oppuravu (ஒப்புரவு) in Tamil.
Really rich people are those who are extraodinarily wise, whose heart is full of sympathy and who are generous in their outlook. Their riches are compared to a tank full of sweet water fit for drinking, a full-grown tree of sweet fruits standing in the heart of a free village and a medi-cinal tree each part of which is more efficacious in curing diseases. This ஒப்புரவு (Oppuravu), helping all deserving cases, may drain his resources but the house-holder who is steadfast in exercising this Aram will rather be ready to succumb to the poverty caused by it.
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