{"id":7415,"date":"2017-08-30T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T02:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/?p=7415"},"modified":"2017-08-01T16:34:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T13:34:01","slug":"tirukular-chapter-31-avoidance-of-anger-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/tirukural\/tirukular-chapter-31-avoidance-of-anger-2","title":{"rendered":"Tirukular.Chapter 31: Avoidance of Anger."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4705 alignleft\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/unnamed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>Kural 301<\/p>\n<p>It is restraint that restrains rage when it can injure.<br \/>\nIf it cannot harm, what does restraint really matter?<br \/>\nKural 302<\/p>\n<p>Wrath is wrong even when it cannot cause injury,<br \/>\nbut when it can, there is nothing more evil.<br \/>\nKural 303<\/p>\n<p>Forget anger toward all who have offended you,<br \/>\nfor it gives rise to teeming troubles.<br \/>\nKural 304<\/p>\n<p>Anger kills the face&#8217;s smile and the heart&#8217;s joy.<br \/>\nDoes there exist a greater enemy than one&#8217;s own anger?<br \/>\nKural 305<\/p>\n<p>If a man be his own guard, let him guard himself against rage.<br \/>\nLeft unguarded, his own wrath will annihilate him.<br \/>\nKural 306<\/p>\n<p>Anger&#8217;s fire engulfs all who draw near it,<br \/>\nburning even friends and family who risk rescue.<br \/>\nKural 307<\/p>\n<p>As a man trying to strike the ground with his hand can hardly fail,<br \/>\njust as surely will one who treasures his temper be destroyed.<br \/>\nKural 308<\/p>\n<p>Though others inflict wrongs as painful as flaming torches,<br \/>\nit is good if a man can refrain from inflammatory tantrums.<br \/>\nKural 309<\/p>\n<p>If hostile thoughts do not invade his mind,<br \/>\nall his other thoughts may swiftly manifest.<br \/>\nKural 310<\/p>\n<p>As men who have died resemble the dead,<br \/>\nso men who have renounced rage resemble renunciates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kural 301 It is restraint that restrains rage when it can injure. If it cannot harm, what does restraint really matter? Kural 302 Wrath is wrong even when it cannot cause injury, but when it can, there is nothing more evil. Kural 303 Forget anger toward all who have offended you, for it gives rise to teeming troubles. Kural 304 Anger kills the face&#8217;s smile and the heart&#8217;s joy. Does there exist a greater enemy than one&#8217;s own anger? Kural 305 If a man be his own guard, let him guard himself against rage. Left unguarded, his own wrath will <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7415","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\/7415","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=7415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}