{"id":5846,"date":"2017-07-23T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T02:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/?p=5846"},"modified":"2018-07-23T07:24:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T04:24:17","slug":"tirukural-chapter-101-wealth-that-benefits-no-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/tirukural\/tirukural-chapter-101-wealth-that-benefits-no-one","title":{"rendered":"Tirukural.Chapter 101: Wealth That Benefits No One."},"content":{"rendered":"<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\" \/>Kural 1001<\/p>\n<p>He who has amassed great wealth but does not enjoy it<br \/>\nis reckoned as dead, like his unused heap.<br \/>\nKural 1002<\/p>\n<p>Believing wealth is everything, yet giving away nothing,<br \/>\nthe miser himself will be possessed by a miserable birth.<br \/>\nKural 1003<\/p>\n<p>The mere sight of men who lust after wealth,<br \/>\ncaring nothing for renown, is a burden to the Earth.<br \/>\nKural 1004<\/p>\n<p>What could a man, unloved by even a single soul,<br \/>\nimagine he might leave to posterity?<br \/>\nKural 1005<\/p>\n<p>Amid millions heaped high, a man remains poor<br \/>\nif he neither gives away his wealth nor enjoys it himself.<br \/>\nKural 1006<\/p>\n<p>Vast wealth can be a wretched curse to one who<br \/>\nneither gladdens himself in its worth nor gives to the worthy.<br \/>\nKural 1007<\/p>\n<p>The wealth of a greedy man who gives nothing to the needy<br \/>\nis like the beauty of a maiden growing old unwed.<br \/>\nKural 1008<\/p>\n<p>The wealth of a man whom no heart loves<br \/>\nis like fruits on a poisonous tree in the heart of a village.<br \/>\nKural 1009<\/p>\n<p>He who casts out love and dharma and chooses self-denial<br \/>\nso wealth can pile high will see it seized by strangers.<br \/>\nKural 1010<\/p>\n<p>The short-lived poverty of a benevolent rich man<br \/>\nis like the temporary dryness of a bountiful rain cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kural 1001 He who has amassed great wealth but does not enjoy it is reckoned as dead, like his unused heap. Kural 1002 Believing wealth is everything, yet giving away nothing, the miser himself will be possessed by a miserable birth. Kural 1003 The mere sight of men who lust after wealth, caring nothing for renown, is a burden to the Earth. Kural 1004 What could a man, unloved by even a single soul, imagine he might leave to posterity? Kural 1005 Amid millions heaped high, a man remains poor if he neither gives away his wealth nor enjoys it <\/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-5846","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\/5846","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=5846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/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=5846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}