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Thirukkural-On Virtue-Not Causing Injury-Kural 319
If a man harms his neighbour in the forenoon,Sure harm will come to him in the afternoon.
The meaning of the poet is that one does not have to wait long for the wheels of Nemesis to grind in retribution. If one does evil to one's neighbour, one must surely expect evil to come to one without delay and in full or greater measure.
"Vinay vidhaipaan vinai arupaan"
is a Tamil proverb. The parallel English proverb is
'Sow the wind and reap the whirl wind'.
The poet Shelley put the same thought slightly differently when he said,
'Men
must
reap
the
things
they
sow
Force
from
force
must
ever
flow'
In fact, things even get accentuated in this process, as Kipling would say,
'The
sins
you
do
two
by
two,
you
must
pay
for
one
by
one'
the Bible explained the same idea thus:
'And
with
what
measures
ye
mete,
it
shall
be
measured
unto
you'
(Matt.
7:2)
The relevant passage of the Holy Koran is as follows:
'He
who
doeth
wrong,
will
have
recompense
thereof'.
(Chapter
30,
Rukoo
24)
All these obviously are the raison d'etre of Mahatma Gandhiji doctrine of Ahimsa, which alone can stop the action – reaction tempo of evil in its process.
It speaks volumes for Valluvar's perception and the development in the search along the path of virtue of the Tamil society of his days that they had norms of such delicate standard.
The
same
idea
and
words
are
reflected
slightly
later
in
Elangovadigal's
"Silapathikaram" as
follows:
"Murpakal
seythaan
pirankaedu
thankaedu
Pirpakal
kaankurooum
petriya
kaan"
(Silapathikaram 21 : 3-4)
This again is added proof that the period of Thirukkural is well before that of Silapathikaram which is definitely known to be the later half of the 2nd century AD.
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