{"id":7401,"date":"2017-08-23T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T02:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/?p=7401"},"modified":"2017-08-01T16:25:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T13:25:58","slug":"tirukular-chapter-24-glory-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/tirukural\/tirukular-chapter-24-glory-2","title":{"rendered":"Tirukular.Chapter 24: Glory."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kural 231<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4860 alignleft\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/unnamed-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>Give to the poor and become praiseworthy.<br \/>\nLife offers no greater reward than this.<br \/>\nKural 232<\/p>\n<p>Those who expound will always praise<br \/>\npeople who bestow alms on the imploring poor.<br \/>\nKural 233<\/p>\n<p>Nothing on Earth is imperishable,<br \/>\nexcept exalted glory, which endures forever.<br \/>\nKural 234<\/p>\n<p>So great is glory gained by men in this world<br \/>\nthat celestials cease praising ascended sages.<br \/>\nKural 235<\/p>\n<p>Loss that is gain and death that is life of<br \/>\nimmortal glory are attained only by the wise.<br \/>\nKural 236<\/p>\n<p>If you must be born, be born for glory.<br \/>\nThose born without it would be better off without birth.<br \/>\nKural 237<\/p>\n<p>Why do those whose life is devoid of renown blame enemies<br \/>\nwho hate them, when they have themselves to blame?<br \/>\nKural 238<\/p>\n<p>Barren are they and deemed a disgrace by all men on Earth<br \/>\nwho fail to beget the offspring called fame.<br \/>\nKural 239<\/p>\n<p>Even flawlessly fruitful lands will lessen their yields<br \/>\nwhen forced to support the body of one who lacks illustriousness.<br \/>\nKural 240<\/p>\n<p>Those who live without reproach truly live.<br \/>\nThose who live without renown don&#8217;t live at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kural 231 Give to the poor and become praiseworthy. Life offers no greater reward than this. Kural 232 Those who expound will always praise people who bestow alms on the imploring poor. Kural 233 Nothing on Earth is imperishable, except exalted glory, which endures forever. Kural 234 So great is glory gained by men in this world that celestials cease praising ascended sages. Kural 235 Loss that is gain and death that is life of immortal glory are attained only by the wise. Kural 236 If you must be born, be born for glory. Those born without it would be <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7401","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\/7401","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=7401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}