INTRODUCTION TO
THE STUDY OF TIRUVALLUVAR
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A Lecture by Prof.Avvai Duraisami Pillai
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Part – 71
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The friendship of persons born of noble family and who are too sensitive to do anything disrespectful must be acquired voluntarily even if it costs something. By frank exposure of the defects and thereby causing repentance on the part of the friends, true friendship serves as an immediate loving corrective and it will never tolerate guilty conduct among friends. Longstanding friendship bound by mutual love is really an asset, and its longevity is based upon the generous forbearance towards one another. Longer and closer the friendship, the more identical are the feelings and thinking among friends. The liberty accrued by longstanding friendship induces a person to do without previous permission a work on his friend’s behalf and even if it by chance results in a great loss, it will be readily condoned. If, in spite of many defects and drawbacks, a king or his minister is undiminished in his affections towards his old and longstanding friends, it will raise him high in the estimation of even his enemies and convert their enmity into friendship. Realising that the constancy in old friendship is dynamic in its force, Valluvar attaches great importance to this attitude of the victorious monarchs.
விழையார் விழையப்படுப பழையார்கண்
பண்பில் தலைப்பிரியா தார். (73)
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