Kural 1011<\/p>\n
For fair-faced maidens, modesty means bashfulness,
\nbut the deeper modesty shies away from shameful karmas.
\nKural 1012<\/p>\n
Food, clothing and such do not differ much among people;
\nwhat distinguishes good men from others is modesty.
\nKural 1013<\/p>\n
All life clings to a body;
\nperfect goodness clings to all that is modest.
\nKural 1014<\/p>\n
Is not modesty a jewel adorning perfect men?
\nWithout it, is not their strut an awful blemish to behold?
\nKural 1015<\/p>\n
The world decrees that men who are as ashamed
\nby others’ disgrace as by their own are modesty’s fondest home.
\nKural 1016<\/p>\n
The great would rather hold themselves behind
\nmodesty’s barricade than breach it to acquire the vast world.
\nKural 1017<\/p>\n
Those who prize unpretentiousness will forsake life to preserve it.
\nBut they never forsake modesty for the sake of life.
\nKural 1018<\/p>\n
If a man does not feel ashamed of what makes others feel ashamed,
\nvirtue itself will be ashamed of him.
\nKural 1019<\/p>\n
Failing to observe good conduct, one sets his family on fire.
\nLiving in shamelessness, he incinerates everything good.
\nKural 1020<\/p>\n
The movements of men devoid of modesty mock life,
\nlike wooden puppets suspended on a string.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kural 1011 For fair-faced maidens, modesty means bashfulness, but the deeper modesty shies away from shameful karmas. Kural 1012 Food, clothing and such do not differ much among people; what distinguishes good men from others is modesty. Kural 1013 All life clings to a body; perfect goodness clings to all that is modest. Kural 1014 Is not modesty a jewel adorning perfect men? Without it, is not their strut an awful blemish to behold? Kural 1015 The world decrees that men who are as ashamed by others’ disgrace as by their own are modesty’s fondest home. Kural 1016 The great <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7557","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\/7557","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=7557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}