Thirukkural |
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Title | Domestic Life |
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| Kural Number | Kural |
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| 41 | He alone may be called a householder who supports
Students, elders and renunciates pursuing well their good paths. |
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| 42 | The virtuous householder supports the needs
Of renunciates, ancestors and the poor. |
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| 43 | The foremost duty of family life is to duly serve these five:
God, guests, kindred, ancestors and one's self. |
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| 44 | Gathering wealth without misdeeds and sharing meals without
miserliness, The householder's posterity will never perish. |
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| 45 | When family life possesses love and virtue,
That is both its essence and fruition. |
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| 46 | If a man masters the duties of married life,
What further merits could monkhood offer him? |
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| 47 | Among those who strive for liberation, the foremost are they
Who live the blessed state of family life as it should be lived. |
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| 48 | The householder dedicated to duty and to aiding
Ascetics on their path of penance endures more than they do. |
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| 49 | Domestic life is rightly called virtue. The monastic path,
Rightly lived beyond blame, is likewise good. |
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| 50 | He who pursues the householder's life well here on earth
Will be placed among the Gods there in heaven. |
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