{"id":11445,"date":"2018-03-30T14:12:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T11:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/?p=11445"},"modified":"2018-03-30T14:12:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T11:12:12","slug":"tirukural-chapter-27-austerity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/tirukural\/tirukural-chapter-27-austerity","title":{"rendered":"TIRUKURAL.Chapter 27: Austerity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7773 alignleft\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/images-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/>Kural 261<br \/>\nIt is the nature of asceticism to patiently endure hardship<br \/>\nand to not harm living creatures.<br \/>\nKural 262<br \/>\nAusterity belongs to the naturally austere.<br \/>\nOthers may attempt it, but to no avail.<br \/>\nKural 263<br \/>\nIs it because they must provide for renunciates<br \/>\nthat others forget to perform penance?<br \/>\nKural 264<br \/>\nShould he but wish it, an ascetic&#8217;s austerities<br \/>\nwill ruin his foes and reward his friends.<br \/>\nKural 265<br \/>\nIn this world men do austerities diligently,<br \/>\nassured of acquiring desires they desire.<br \/>\nKural 266<br \/>\nMen who follow some austerity fulfill their karma.<br \/>\nAll others, ensnared in desires, act in vain.<br \/>\nKural 267<br \/>\nAs the intense fire of the furnace refines gold to brilliance, so does<br \/>\nthe burning suffering of austerity purify the soul to resplendence.<br \/>\nKural 268<br \/>\nOne who has realized by himself his soul&#8217;s Self<br \/>\nwill be worshiped by all other souls.<br \/>\nKural 269<br \/>\nSo potent is the power acquired through disciplined self-denial<br \/>\nthat those who attain it may even delay the moment of death.<br \/>\nKural 270<br \/>\nA few people fast and abstain, while most do not.<br \/>\nDue to this, many suffer deprivation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kural 261 It is the nature of asceticism to patiently endure hardship and to not harm living creatures. Kural 262 Austerity belongs to the naturally austere. Others may attempt it, but to no avail. Kural 263 Is it because they must provide for renunciates that others forget to perform penance? Kural 264 Should he but wish it, an ascetic&#8217;s austerities will ruin his foes and reward his friends. Kural 265 In this world men do austerities diligently, assured of acquiring desires they desire. Kural 266 Men who follow some austerity fulfill their karma. All others, ensnared in desires, act in <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tirukural","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}