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Thirukkural-On Wise Friendship-Kural-448
Keduppaar ilaanum kedum.
Without
courageous
counselors
to
point
out
his
fault
and
so
protect
him,
A
king
will
ruin
himself,
even
without
foes.
Machiavelli
says
in
the
'Prince",
which
is
a
pragmatic
European
treatise
on
State-craft,
which
is
similar
to
'Arthasasthra'
but
appeared
centuries
later:
“A
prince,
therefore,
ought
always
to
take
counsel,
indeed
if
he
finds
any
one
has
scruples
in
telling
him
the
truth,
he
should
be
angry".
A king, who does not have around him, committed and courageous advisers, who will tell him even bitter home-truths when necessary, does not need any external enemy to destroy him.
This advice is conveniently and regrettably forgotten by most political executives of our country today, some times with disastrous results. Only decisions, which are either personally or politically expedient are taken, ignoring earlier promises and accords as well as field realities, brought to their notice, or should have been brought to their notice, by competent advisers.
Biblical parallels are as below:
“Where
no
counsel
is,
the
people
fall"
(proverbs:
11,
14)
“He
that
hateth
reproof
is
brutish"
(Proverb:
12,1)
K.V.
Jaganathan
has
quoted
a
directly
relevant
passage
from
'Kambaramayanam'
:
“Kadikkum
vaalaravum
kaetkum
mandiram
kalikinroyai
Adukkum
eedhadaatheethen
raanra
yaedhuvo
darivu
kaati
Idikkunar
illai
neeye
yeniya
theni
unnai
mudikindrapoadhu
munnin
mudivanri
mudivathundo?"
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