10th Mar: Thought of the Day

Tirukkuṛaḷ

Couplet 20 
When water fails, functions of nature cease, you say;
Thus when rain fails, no men can walk in 'duty's ordered way'

Explanation
If it be said that the duties of life cannot be discharged by any person without water, so without rain there cannot be the flowing of water

07th Mar: Thought of the Day

Tirukkuṛaḷ

Couplet 19 

If heaven its watery treasures ceases to dispense,
Through the wide world cease gifts, and deeds of 'penitence'

Explanation

If rain fall not, penance and alms-deeds will not dwell within this spacious world

06th Mar: Thought of the Day

Tirukkuṛaḷ

Couplet 18 
If heaven grow dry, with feast and offering never more,
Will men on earth the heavenly ones adore

Explanation
If the heaven dry up, neither yearly festivals, nor daily worship will be offered in this world, to the celestials

05rd Mar: Thought of the Day

Tirukkuṛaḷ

Couplet 17 

If clouds restrain their gifts and grant no rain,
The treasures fail in ocean's wide domain

Explanation

Even the wealth of the wide sea will be diminished, if the cloud that has drawn (its waters) up gives them not back again (in rain)

03rd Mar: Thought of the Day

Tirukkuṛaḷ

Couplet 16 
If from the clouds no drops of rain are shed
'Tis rare to see green herb lift up its head

Explanation
If no drop falls from the clouds, not even the green blade of grass will be seen

27th Feb: Thought of the Day

Tirukkuṛaḷ

Couplet 15 
'Tis rain works all: it ruin spreads, then timely aid supplies;
As, in the happy days before, it bids the ruined rise

Explanation
Rain by its absence ruins men; and by its existence restores them to fortune

26th Feb: Thought of the Day

Tirukkuṛaḷ

Couplet 14 
If clouds their wealth of waters fail on earth to pour,
The ploughers plough with oxen's sturdy team no more

Explanation
If the abundance of wealth imparting rain diminish, the labour of the plough must cease

24th Feb: Thought of the Day

Tirukkuṛaḷ

Couplet 13 

If clouds, that promised rain, deceive, and in the sky remain,

Famine, sore torment, stalks o'er earth's vast ocean-girdled plain

Explanation

If the cloud, withholding rain, deceive (our hopes) hunger will long distress the sea-girt spacious world

20th Feb: Thought of the Day

Tirukkuṛaḷ

Couplet 12 

The rain makes pleasant food for eaters rise;

As food itself, thirst-quenching draught supplies

Explanation

Rain produces good food, and is itself food

19th Feb: Thought of the Day

Tirukkuṛaḷ

Couplet 11  The world its course maintains through life that rain unfailing gives; Thus rain is known the true ambrosial food of all that lives

Explanation By the continuance of rain the world is preserved in existence; it is therefore worthy to be called ambrosia

18th Feb: Thought of the Day

Couplet 10

They swim the sea of births, the 'Monarch's' foot who gain;
None others reach the shore of being's mighty main

Explanation

None can swim the great sea of births but those who are united to the feet of God

13th Feb: Thought of the Day

Couplet 9 
Before His foot, 'the Eight-fold Excellence,' with unbent head,Who stands, like palsied sense, is to all living functions dead

Explanation

The head that worships not the feet of Him who is possessed of eight attributes, is as useless as a sense without the power of sensation

12th Feb: Thought of the Day

Couplet 8  Unless His feet 'the Sea of Good, the Fair and Bountiful,' men gain, 'Tis hard the further bank of being's changeful sea to attain Explanation None can swim the sea of vice, but those who are united to the feet of that gracious Being who is a sea of virtue

11th Feb: Thought of the Day

Couplet 7  Unless His foot, 'to Whom none can compare,' men gain, 'Tis hard for mind to find relief from anxious pain Explanation Anxiety of mind cannot be removed, except from those who are united to the feet of Him who is incomparable

10th Feb: Thought of the Day

Couplet 6  Long live they blest, who 've stood in path from falsehood freed; His, 'Who quenched lusts that from the sense-gates five proceed'

Explanation Those shall long proposer who abide in the faultless way of Him who has destroyed the five desires of the senses

09th Feb: Thought of the Day

Couplet 5 

The men, who on the 'King's' true praised delight to dwell,

Affects not them the fruit of deeds done ill or well

Explanation

The two-fold deeds that spring from darkness shall not adhere to those who delight in the true praise of God

08'Feb: Thought of the day

Couplet 4 

His foot, 'Whom want affects not, irks not grief,' who gain

Shall not, through every time, of any woes complain

Explanation

To those who meditate the feet of Him who is void of desire or aversion, evil shall never come

07'Feb: Thought of the day

Couplet 3

His feet, 'Who o'er the full-blown flower hath past,' who gain In bliss long time shall dwell above this earthly plain

Explanation

They who are united to the glorious feet of Him who passes swiftly over the flower of the mind, shall flourish long above all worlds

06'Feb: Thought of the day

Couplet 2 

No fruit have men of all their studied lore, Save they the 'Purely Wise One's' feet adore

Explanation

What Profit have those derived from learning, who worship not the good feet of Him who is possessed of pure knowledge ?

Thought of the day

Couplet 1 

A, as its first of letters, every speech maintains;

The "Primal Deity" is first through all the world's domains

Explanation

As the letter A is the first of all letters, so the eternal God is first in the world