{"id":4925,"date":"2017-04-21T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T02:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/?p=4925"},"modified":"2017-05-03T19:18:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T16:18:46","slug":"tirukular-chapter-8-possessing-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/tirukural\/tirukular-chapter-8-possessing-love","title":{"rendered":"Tirukural. Chapter 8: Possessing Love."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4902 alignleft\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/unnamed-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>Kural 71<\/p>\n<p>Can any lock keep love confined within,<br \/>\nwhen the loving heart&#8217;s tiny tears escape and confess it?<br \/>\nKural 72<\/p>\n<p>The unloving belong only to themselves,<br \/>\nbut the loving belong to others to their very bones.<br \/>\nKural 73<\/p>\n<p>They say it is to know union with love<br \/>\nthat the soul takes union with the body.<br \/>\nKural 74<\/p>\n<p>Love makes one affectionate toward all,<br \/>\nand affection affords the priceless treasure of friendship.<br \/>\nKural 75<\/p>\n<p>They say love&#8217;s greatness is this: it yields to good families<br \/>\nworldly happiness here and heavenly bliss hereafter.<br \/>\nKural 76<\/p>\n<p>The uninformed say love abides with virtuous souls,<br \/>\nunaware that love is also friend to those immersed in vice.<br \/>\nKural 77<\/p>\n<p>As the blazing sun dries up a boneless worm,<br \/>\nso does virtue scorch a loveless being.<br \/>\nKural 78<\/p>\n<p>Life without love in the heart<br \/>\nis like a sapless tree in a barren desert.<br \/>\nKural 79<\/p>\n<p>What good is a body perfect in outer ways,<br \/>\nif inwardly it is impaired by lack of love?<br \/>\nKural 80<\/p>\n<p>With love enshrined in the heart, one truly lives.<br \/>\nWithout it, the body is but bones encased in skin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kural 71 Can any lock keep love confined within, when the loving heart&#8217;s tiny tears escape and confess it? Kural 72 The unloving belong only to themselves, but the loving belong to others to their very bones. Kural 73 They say it is to know union with love that the soul takes union with the body. Kural 74 Love makes one affectionate toward all, and affection affords the priceless treasure of friendship. Kural 75 They say love&#8217;s greatness is this: it yields to good families worldly happiness here and heavenly bliss hereafter. Kural 76 The uninformed say love abides with <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4925","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\/4925","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=4925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}