Posted Date : 07:40 (10/02/2017)
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Krupanantha Variar's Inspirational Quotes for Higher Human Values.
Sakti Vikatan
In the good land of Tamil speakers, Krupanantha Variar is an ardent and
well-known devotee of Murugan. He is a multi-faceted exponent of Tamil
devotional literature, story teller… Wherever he went, the words spoken
by him to the simple people are unambiguous and easy to understand,
bound to remove ignorance and meant to strengthen path of virtue. His
golden spiritual words of wisdom lay stress on increasing
self-confidence in the most difficult circumstances.
Here is something for your
look-see.
We
can understand and appreciate the light from an earthen lamp, only when
we are in the dark. Likewise, we
realize mother’s ways of raising (and sustaining) us, only when she is
no more. Therefore, always extol motherhood.
Don’t be joyous when others praise you; likewise, don’t entertain mental
anguish when others defame you.
Desire has the quality of destroying a person. Opposed to it, the love
we show to others makes them thrive (and prosper). Therefore, you must
strive to have a quality to make people thrive.
Nonessential desires beget misery and not goodness.
Learn to accommodate to unhappy incidents on the days of joyous and
prosperous living. The reason is in the nature of things every man
experiences ups and downs alternately in his life.
Prepare oneself for all
circumstances. (Be a man of all seasons.)
We can teach and train the uninitiated (unknowing).
We can explicate, clarify and teach the minutiae to the knower.
The ignoramus unable to discriminate between the good and the
bad, not even god can reform.
Family is like the green living tree. The
wife is the root, husband the main trunk, the children the leaves and
flowers, and the sweet fruits the virtuous deeds.
As the tree offers usefulness to
a multitude of living beings, the tree of a family should offer benefits
to others.
The butter fat in the milk is not easily visible to our eyes.
In like manner, by true devotion
only, we can realize the power (and benevolence) of god.
Where there is burning fire, there is smoke.
We can make things hot with fire.
Other benefits (from fire) are available. There is no one benefit
from the smoke.
The seeds sown in the field yield returns by several thousand seedlings.
Likewise, one’s good and bad
deeds according to their merits increase many times and return to the
doer.
Some talk idly, some talk with no notion or object: that talk has no
rhyme or reason. That
yields no benefits. As much as possible, maintain silence.
If verdigris is stuck on the copper vessels in daily use, we should
scrub, clean, and remove it for further use.
If it is paddy, we should remove
the chaff and cook the rice.
Likewise, we as people should remove the pernicious tendencies
and qualities, contemplate on the good and live so.
Birds have two sets of feathers, the train two rails, and man two legs
and two eyes; pupils should certainly have two qualities: self-control
and Guru Bhakti (devotion to Guru). Students with these two qualities
only will advance.
A lighted torch, though held upside down, will burn looking up;
likewise, no one can put down the upright person.
It is good and healthful to have a restful sleep in the night.
If not, read sacred texts that take you to a higher spiritual
state. That will take us down the spiritual path.
Don’t analyze other people’s shortcomings. We should not cover up our
faults.
Humility is life-pulse in human existence and elevates us to a higher
state of humanity.