![]() If thy life be rescued, life do not withhold. ![]() He recollects the same song by Shamal Bhatt, when he was in London too, and was reading the New Testament, ‘especially the Sermon on the Mount which went straight to his heart.’įor a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal:įor a simple penny pay thou back with gold: He mentions a Gujarati didactic stanza in his Autobiography, which ‘gripped his mind and heart’, when he was a boy. He cites two precepts as his guiding principles during his childhood – truth and returning good for evil. There can be no doubt that he would have been drawn towards it, had he heard about it. ![]() It is unlikely that Gandhi would have heard about Thirukkural before his acquaintance with the Tamils in South Africa. But, we can see that Gandhi was quite aware of Thirukkural through his writings. We cannot ascertain the direct impact of Kural on Gandhi. There are a lot of myths concerning Gandhi, Tolstoy and Thirukkural. ![]() If we make a list of those who lived a life that was close to the moral code of Thirukkural, the name of Gandhi, though he was not a Tamil, has to come on top. It is astonishing that a book which is largely perceived to be a moral treatise (though, it is, in fact, not only a book of moral codes) has become such an object of love for the Tamils. Is it possible for a huge mass of people to shower immense love on a work of literature? The emotional attachment of Tamils to Thirukkural is a case in point. ![]()
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