Tirukkural-On Virtue-On Love Or Affection-Kural 79

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Akatturuppu anpi lavarkku.

If a man's heart is devoid of love,

Of what avail are the externals?

Have we not seen people who, to all appearances, have a sound eye or ear, but are blind and deaf to all other intents and purposes? So too, a householder's life becomes purposeless and reduces itself to just a soul-less routine, without a tender heart.

Though possessed of all the human organs and accessories, such a man without affection has missed the very purpose of life and is no more human.

Kural 34 emphasised only the absence of impurity or blemish in the heart; in this Kural the need for positive love is stressed.