Karma

Orumaikkan thaankatra kalvi oruvarkuElumaiyum aemap pudaithuThe learning that one has imbibed in this birth, Will stand him in good stead in all seven births.The education, that a person has acquired in this birth, will surely regulate his work and conduct in ...

Continued From Part IIKarmaKarma, the kind of actions we engage in, will ultimately shape our lives. Even animals and birds work to appease their hunger. Working for oneself is nothing remarkable. The special quality of human beings is their capacity to ...

Thurappaarman thuppura villaar urarpaalaUootaa kaziyum eninThe poor, without many worldly possessions, will surely resort to satisfying renunciation,If ordaining fate will spare them their share of pain and grief.The idea is that normally it should be easy for those who have no ...

Vakuthaan vakutha vakaiyallaal koadiThokuthaarkkum thuithal aridhu The divine ordination, of all this on earth, has been extremely well brought out in this couplet, which could be translated as below:Except as ordained by the Lord, who measures out each man’s meet,Even the ...

Pariyinum aakaavaam paalalla, uythuchsoriyinum poakaa thamaEven with the greatest vigilance, possessions which do not belong, cannot be retained;While what fate has decreed as one’s own, cannot be lost even in carelessness.Here again is an avowal by the Poet of his belief ...

WorldAll- religions except Buddhism and Jainism believe that the world is the creation of God and it is all dependent upon him. They differ in the details regarding the actual process of creation and the exact nature and status of the ...

Aakoolaal thoanrum asaivinmai kaipporulPoakoolaal thoanrum madiThe constructive industry that produces wealth, and the destructive indolenceThat brings about adversity in life, are both the outcome of fate.Fate determines the industry and indolence that produce wealth or adversity. Thiruvalluvar is primarily the ...

Goodbye Acacia Avenue, welcome to Eco Way, Euro Close and Sustainability Way—these are just changed names of some streets in Britain, which were named on the basis of interests in the environment, health and safety, and diversity, as revealed by a ...

No power can slay my soul; it lives in Thee. Thy presence is my immortality. Sri Aurobindo 'Death', the term always has a mystery around it. There wont be any mortal human being who has never contemplated ...

Continued From The First Part The Importance of Character Building The importance of character-building occupies a vital and central place in spiritual life. Spiritual life sans character-building is like constructing a house without any mortar or ...

Whether it be eating, drinking, reading, talking, sleeping or meditating, our being yearns to completely experience every activity that we engage in and be fully involved in it. Are we fully conscious of every action we engage in? ...

The past tendencies or vasanas follow one to successive births while in the exhaustion of which new ones spring up causing the birth and death cycle to revolve relentlessly. The results of one's actions would bear fruit for the ...