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Tirukkural-On Virtue-On Being Grateful-Kural 109
Onrunanru ullak kedum
The following translation is based on Thiru K Srinivasan's rendering:
Even
a
deadly
hurt
is
soon
effaced,
If
one
recollects
a
past
good
turn.
A wrong that one suffers at another's hands, even if it is as painful as death, could be forgotten in the fond and lingering remembrance of the one good thing, that was done by the same person before. For, as Parimelalagar would say, the small good turn is according to Valluvar's precept considered as being big as a palm tree:
Thinaithunai
panaithunaiyaakak
kollapaduthal
Rajaji
would
comment
on
this
as
follows:
'this is yet another instance of Thiruvalluvar's characteristic way of giving helpful practical hints to achieve what may otherwise seem to be a mere counsel of perfection, thus showing what a great master of psyhchology Valluvar was'.
In this context we may recall the Chinese proverb which says,
'For
the
sake
of
one
good
action,
a
hundred
evil
ones
should
be
forgotten.'
The following passage in Kurunthogai is also relevant as it conveys the same idea:
Oru
nanrudaya
laayinum
puri
maandu
pulavi
theera
alimadhi
After
all,
no
one
is
all
good
or
all
bad.
Even
the
so-called
bad
ones
have
some
good
in
them.
At
some
time
earlier
on,
actuated
by
the
little
good
in
them,
they
might
have
done
a
good
turn.
The
recollection
of
that
single
good
action
should
enable
one
to
forget
even
a
hundred
wrongs',
according
to
the
Chinese
proverb
quoted
earlier.
The
purport
of
the
present
Kural
is
also
the
same.
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