Thursday, August 27, 2009

Thirukural a world literature

"Tirukkural is the life, Tiruvasagam is the heart, and Tirumandiram is the soul of Tamil culture..." Swami Shivananda - On the Tirukkural

Thirukural written by Thiruvalluvar consists of three books, the first book on aram (the way or dharma), the second on porul (material or artha) and the third on inbam (joy or kama).

We could have come across lot of literatures, what special about this one ? Why should we call it as a world literature ?

The point which i can say simply about it is "Its a single literature which explains moral of life with different category, which the whole world can accept without any refute"

we say, geetha given to human by god
thiruvasagam given to god by human
Its only Thirukural, which is given to human by human

Translated version follow:
http://www.tamilnation.org/literature/kural/kuralE1.htm

If you have any question how you should act/react, you can just refer Thirukural
I'm very much surprised and impressed about author Thiruvalluvar that he has the visionary of human evolution, long years ago. You can find out all statements suits all times and without loosing moral of life. His words are stronger in this literature it is really a great treasure for the whole world.

Little more info about literature, It was written in Tamil, author followed all the grammatical/rhyming rules. It has 1330 kural(statements), each kural has 7 tamil words 4 in 1st line, 3 in second/last line. Thats what amazing about the author.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Youth and Internet

I just thought of sharing things which I have been observing with 16-19 age students. I'm afraid and worried of their future, since most of them lost their way in internet wrongly.

Just searching and finding friends, emal, chat or social networking it is not a problem but then most of them addicted to it, thats where the problem starts.
if you want to check out yourself that you have

Pronography in internet, As I know lot and lot of people affected by this.
We know future is in hand of students/youth as swami vivekananda said, but lot many students are leading a wrong life with the lack of knowledge and it is a big threat to their future.

The parents who search money and run behind it, should spend time, take responsibility to ensure this kind of problems can be avoided by guiding them. Building/Teaching morals is more important for students rather than teaching how to earn money.

In general ignorance is the what makes human life to lead it wrong, Humans make mistake and learn from it and the learning has to be carry forwarded to other people thats how human evolved. With www(world wide web) It is also important to know what we should do and what we should avoid. Remember for people in ignorance: ignorance is blissfull, but later it will become painful.

What is more important, your standard of living or living a life with correct standards?