Thirukkural-On Virtue-On Fate-Kural 379

Friday, April 23, 2010, 11:25

Nanraankaal nallavaak kaanpavar anraangaal
Allar paduvadhu yevan

Those, who enjoy the good things of life as they come, have no business to make out
An exhibition of martyrdom, when pain and sorrow also come about.

The good and bad are inextricably mixed up in their incidence in day to day life, Both have to be taken in the stride. It is unfair to revel in one and loathe the other; for in this world, 'in the midst of pain and death we are in life". There are those who take it as their right when Providence blesses them with happiness, but will turn round and curse their Fate, when something unpleasant occurs. They are definitely being unreasonable. It is of such people that Kambar wrote the following lines:

Inbam vandhurumaenin iniya thaayodaith
Thunbam vandhurumaenin thurakalaakumo (Kambaramayanam: Thailamaatu-29)