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Thirukkural-On Wealth-On Education-Kural 397
Yaadhaanum
naadaamaal
uooraamaal
ennoruvan
Saandhunaiyung
kallaadha
vaaru
For
the
truly
learned,
every
land
and
town
on
earth
is
their
own;
When
that
is
so,
why
does
the
process
of
learning
not
continue
till
death?
True
learning
transcends
the
frontiers
of
cities
and
countries,
wherever
they
may
be
situated
in
the
world,
as
well
as
those
of
their
languages
and
cultures.
For
the
really
learned
person,
the
process
of
learning
other
languages,
literature
and
culture
must
be
a
continuous
process.
Formal education can only be the beginning of the process of real learning. A man of learning would never have closed the windows of his mind, to refreshing new winds from fresh avenues of learning, from whatever source it emanates and at whatever stage of one"s life it comes.
The process of learning should go on all one"s life, according to Seneca. Well after he had established his reputation as a sculptor of world renown, Michael Angelo said that “he is still learning". Mahatma Gandhi learnt and imbibed much of the basis for his life"s work, from Tolstoy, Ruskin and Thoreau, and this was much later in life after his formal education in India and England was completed.
The concept of 'citizen of the world", postulated in the first line of this Kural, is in the line with the famous idea of poet Kanian Poongunranar of the Sangam period, who sang,
“Yaadhum uoorae, yaavarum kaelir" (Puram, 192;1)
Which means 'all the world is my home and all men and women are my kin".
It is very necessary that our young people of today should be well informed specifically, on this particular aspect of the matter, so that they may not succumb to narrow-minded parochialism of different types, that are so widely prevalent in our country now.
When loyalties are so broad-based and when there is so much to learn about countries, towns, languages and cultures, why do people restrict themselves so badly?, asks Thiruvalluvar. The question is very specially relevant, when we are facing unpleasant situations of confrontation and unreasonable violence, arising out of religious fundamentalism, linguistic fanaticism, regional and sub-regional loyalties, and even terroristic aberrations, contingent upon one or more of these developments in certain parts of the country.
A parallel is found in Pazhamozhi thus:
“Aatravaum
katraar
arivudaiyaar
akdhudaiyaar
Naatrisaiyum
sellaadha
naadillai
anaadu,
Vaetru
naadaahaa
thamavaeyaam
aayinaal
Aatrunaa
vaenduvadhil"
(Pazhamozi,
55)
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