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'ON VIRTUE' - In Praise Of God - Kural - 2
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Katrratanaa
laaya
payanenkol;
vaalarivan
Natrraal tolaar rennin.
Learning
and
scholarship
are
of
no
avail
if
they
do
not
lead
One
to
worship
at
the
wise
one's
divine
feet.
Education must make one think of God. Parimelalagar's idea is that the concept of reaching God's feet is the culmination of all birth, which can be achieved only by right learning and appropriate conduct in keeping with such learning. But the end of all learning is universally accepted to lead one to Godhead, for knowledge leads to steadfastness. 'The steadfast, having controlled the senses, sits focused on 'Me' as the Supreme.' (Gita 2, 61).
In this respect these Kural lines are of import, similar to the Biblical lines, that ' Thou shalt love the Lord, thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy mind and with all thy strength'. This is also the natural thing to do, for the Psalmist says, 'the human soul thirsts for God like the thirsty land'. (Psalms 143:6). This is also what the Holy Koran lays down when it says ' we have no knowledge saving what thou has taught us'. (Chapter 1, Rukoo 3). The right knowledge, therefore, would take one to God. Thus the purpose of all education is categorically laid down here as 'the holy one of knowing God and worshipping him'.
The expression 'Vaalarivan' refers to God, of 'pure intelligence'. Kambar, in later days, has adopted the same expression to describe God in a certain context in his classic (Kamba Ramayanam, Thadagai - 3 Velvi 21).
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