{"id":30579,"date":"2020-12-18T22:39:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T19:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/?p=30579"},"modified":"2020-12-18T22:39:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T19:39:36","slug":"tirukural-chapter-33-avoidance-of-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/tirukural\/tirukural-chapter-33-avoidance-of-killing","title":{"rendered":"Tirukural – Chapter 33: Avoidance of Killing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Kural 321<\/h4>\n
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What is virtuous conduct? It is never destroying life,
\nfor killing leads to every other sin.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Kural 322<\/h4>\n
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Of all virtues summed by ancient sages, the foremost are to
\nshare one’s food and to protect all living creatures.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Kural 323<\/h4>\n
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Not killing is the first and foremost good.
\nThe virtue of not lying comes next.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Kural 324<\/h4>\n
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What is the good way? It is the path that reflects on
\nhow it may avoid killing any living creature.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Kural 325<\/h4>\n
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Among all who disown the world out of dismay,
\nthe foremost, dismayed with killing, embrace nonkilling.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Kural 326<\/h4>\n
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Life-devouring death will not lay waste the living days
\nof one whose code of conduct is to never kill.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Kural 327<\/h4>\n
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Refrain from taking precious life from any living being,
\neven to save your own life.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Kural 328<\/h4>\n
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By sacrifice of life, some gain great wealth and welfare,
\nbut great men scorn such odious gains.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Kural 329<\/h4>\n
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Those whose trade is killing creatures are deemed defiled
\nby men who know the defiling nature of being mean.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Kural 330<\/h4>\n
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They say that beggars who suffer a depraved life
\nin a diseased body once deprived another’s body of its life.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kural 321 What is virtuous conduct? It is never destroying life, for killing leads to every other sin. Kural 322 Of all virtues summed by ancient sages, the foremost are to share one’s food and to protect all living creatures. Kural 323 Not killing is the first and foremost good. The virtue of not lying comes next. Kural 324 What is the good way? It is the path that reflects on how it may avoid killing any living creature. Kural 325 Among all who disown the world out of dismay, the foremost, dismayed with killing, embrace nonkilling. Kural 326 Life-devouring <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30579","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\/30579","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=30579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}