{"id":4888,"date":"2017-05-17T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T02:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/?p=4888"},"modified":"2017-05-03T16:31:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T13:31:41","slug":"tirukular-chapter-34-impermanence-of-all-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/tirukural\/tirukular-chapter-34-impermanence-of-all-things","title":{"rendered":"Tirukular.Chapter 34: Impermanence of All Things."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kural 331<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4889 alignleft\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/unnamed-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>There is no baser folly than the infatuation<br \/>\nthat looks upon the ephemeral as if it were everlasting.<br \/>\nKural 332<\/p>\n<p>Amassing great wealth is gradual, like the gathering of a theater<br \/>\ncrowd. Its dispersal is sudden, like that same crowd departing.<br \/>\nKural 333<\/p>\n<p>Wealth&#8217;s nature is to be unenduring.<br \/>\nUpon acquiring it, quickly do that which is enduring.<br \/>\nKural 334<\/p>\n<p>Though it seems a harmless gauge of time, to those who fathom it,<br \/>\na day is a saw steadily cutting down the tree of life.<br \/>\nKural 335<\/p>\n<p>Do good deeds with a sense of urgency,<br \/>\nbefore death&#8217;s approaching rattle strangles the tongue.<br \/>\nKural 336<\/p>\n<p>What wondrous greatness this world possesses&#8211;<br \/>\nthat yesterday a man was, and today he is not.<br \/>\nKural 337<\/p>\n<p>Men do not know if they will live another moment,<br \/>\nyet their thoughts are ten million and more.<br \/>\nKural 338<\/p>\n<p>The soul&#8217;s attachment to the body is like that of a fledgling,<br \/>\nwhich forsakes its empty shell and flies away.<br \/>\nKural 339<\/p>\n<p>Death is like falling asleep,<br \/>\nand birth is like waking from that sleep.<br \/>\nKural 340<\/p>\n<p>Not yet settled in a permanent home,<br \/>\nthe soul takes temporary shelter in a body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kural 331 There is no baser folly than the infatuation that looks upon the ephemeral as if it were everlasting. Kural 332 Amassing great wealth is gradual, like the gathering of a theater crowd. Its dispersal is sudden, like that same crowd departing. Kural 333 Wealth&#8217;s nature is to be unenduring. Upon acquiring it, quickly do that which is enduring. Kural 334 Though it seems a harmless gauge of time, to those who fathom it, a day is a saw steadily cutting down the tree of life. Kural 335 Do good deeds with a sense of urgency, before death&#8217;s approaching <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4888","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\/4888","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=4888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}