{"id":4743,"date":"2017-05-02T18:54:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T15:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/?p=4743"},"modified":"2017-05-02T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T16:30:00","slug":"chapter-19-avoidance-of-backbiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/tirukural\/chapter-19-avoidance-of-backbiting","title":{"rendered":"Tirukural.Chapter 19: Avoidance of Backbiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4744 alignleft\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/unnamed-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>Kural 181<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>Silent about virtue and swift to act wrongly,<br \/>\none who does not slander others may still be called good.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Kural 182<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>More vile than violating virtue and committing crime<br \/>\nis slandering a man, then smiling to his face.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Kural 183<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>Virtue declares that dying, not living, will bring<br \/>\nbetter rewards to deceiving backbiters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Kural 184<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>Though you speak unkind words to a man&#8217;s face,<br \/>\ndo not talk behind his back heedless of consequent harm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Kural 185<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>Though his every word is full of kindly virtue,<br \/>\na man&#8217;s mean backbiting will betray an empty heart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Kural 186<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>If a man spreads tales of others&#8217; faults,<br \/>\nhis own worst faults will be exposed and spread.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Kural 187<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>Not knowing the companionable art of cheerful conversation,<br \/>\nmen estrange even friends by divisive discourse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Kural 188<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>If men are disposed to spread the faults of friends,<br \/>\nwhat deadly harm might they do to strangers?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Kural 189<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>Only because she weighs duty well does Earth bear the weight<br \/>\nof those who wait for a man&#8217;s departure to defame him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Kural 190<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>If men perceived their own faults as they do the faults of others,<br \/>\ncould misfortune ever come to them?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kural 181 Silent about virtue and swift to act wrongly, one who does not slander others may still be called good. Kural 182 More vile than violating virtue and committing crime is slandering a man, then smiling to his face. Kural 183 Virtue declares that dying, not living, will bring better rewards to deceiving backbiters. Kural 184 Though you speak unkind words to a man&#8217;s face, do not talk behind his back heedless of consequent harm. Kural 185 Though his every word is full of kindly virtue, a man&#8217;s mean backbiting will betray an empty heart. Kural 186 If a <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4743","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\/4743","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=4743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}