{"id":7407,"date":"2017-08-26T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T02:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/?p=7407"},"modified":"2017-08-01T16:29:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T13:29:46","slug":"tirukular-chapter-27-austerity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/tirukural\/tirukular-chapter-27-austerity-2","title":{"rendered":"Tirukular.Chapter 27: Austerity."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kural 261<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4869 alignleft\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0bb3\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd_\u0b9a\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bc8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"283\" \/>It is the nature of asceticism to patiently endure hardship<br \/>\nand to not harm living creatures.<br \/>\nKural 262<\/p>\n<p>Austerity belongs to the naturally austere.<br \/>\nOthers may attempt it, but to no avail.<br \/>\nKural 263<\/p>\n<p>Is it because they must provide for renunciates<br \/>\nthat others forget to perform penance?<br \/>\nKural 264<\/p>\n<p>Should he but wish it, an ascetic&#8217;s austerities<br \/>\nwill ruin his foes and reward his friends.<br \/>\nKural 265<\/p>\n<p>In this world men do austerities diligently,<br \/>\nassured of acquiring desires they desire.<br \/>\nKural 266<\/p>\n<p>Men who follow some austerity fulfill their karma.<br \/>\nAll others, ensnared in desires, act in vain.<br \/>\nKural 267<\/p>\n<p>As the intense fire of the furnace refines gold to brilliance, so does<br \/>\nthe burning suffering of austerity purify the soul to resplendence.<br \/>\nKural 268<\/p>\n<p>One who has realized by himself his soul&#8217;s Self<br \/>\nwill be worshiped by all other souls.<br \/>\nKural 269<\/p>\n<p>So potent is the power acquired through disciplined self-denial<br \/>\nthat those who attain it may even delay the moment of death.<br \/>\nKural 270<\/p>\n<p>A few people fast and abstain, while most do not.<br \/>\nDue to this, many suffer deprivation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kural 261 It is the nature of asceticism to patiently endure hardship and to not harm living creatures. Kural 262 Austerity belongs to the naturally austere. Others may attempt it, but to no avail. Kural 263 Is it because they must provide for renunciates that others forget to perform penance? Kural 264 Should he but wish it, an ascetic&#8217;s austerities will ruin his foes and reward his friends. Kural 265 In this world men do austerities diligently, assured of acquiring desires they desire. Kural 266 Men who follow some austerity fulfill their karma. All others, ensnared in desires, act in <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7407","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\/7407","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=7407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}