AN INTRODUCTION TO
THE STUDY OF TIRUVALLUVAR
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A Lecture by Prof.Avvai Duraisami Pillai
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Part – 22
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Another characteristic of certain anti-social elements is indecent back-biting, which is worse than covetousness. There is a section of people who have made it their profession to speak ill of others; this at times carries them to the extent of black – mailing But it must be understood that this defect is not incorrigible. If the individual who engages himself in speaking ill of others in their absence, inquires into his own faults as he does unto others, he can free himself from this serious anti-social drawback.
Just like back-biting, indulgence in frivolous and vain-talks destroys the relationship of the householder with the other members of the society. Even if he is good-natured and highly honoured on account of his station in life, the futility of his speech will reduce him to nothing and he will be neglected as good for nothing.
In the discharge of the multifarious daily duties of a householder, he is apt to err and as such there is, room for evil to creep in his thought, word and deed. So, every householder should always be careful to guard himself from doing evil to others. Poverty is one of the mischievous forces which may at times drive an individual to do evil which, instead of rescuing one from the pangs of penury, will throw him down headlong into its dark depths of misery.
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