AN INTRODUCTION TO
THE STUDY OF TIRUVALLUVAR
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A Lecture by Prof.Avvai Duraisami Pillai
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Part – 27
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If a single pie is lost, we take it seriously to our heart and feel very sorry; on the other hand if we give the same to a beggar, we are pleased with his smile. Smile is a contagion and if a beggar smiles on receipt of anything from you, you yourself begin to smile and that smile spreads miles and miles.
On both occasions we part with our money, but yet there is pleasure in parting with it to a beggar. The man who hoards money parts with it when he dies with a heart too heavy. People of this type are numberless; Thiruvalluvar asks us, “Do they not experience the ‘pleasure they could enjoy in helping the beggars with the money they now lose?” To a person, who has tasted the pleasure of helping the needy and the hungry, death will not be painful. The pain caused by inability to help the poor is experienced as worse than death.
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