Kural 1041<\/p>\n
Ask what is more miserable than being poor,
\nand the answer comes–only poverty pains like poverty.
\nKural 1042<\/p>\n
Poverty, the cruelest of demons, deprives a man
\nof every joy in this life, then takes them from the next life.
\nKural 1043<\/p>\n
Craving, another name for poverty, will obliterate at once
\nancestral honor and dignity of speech.
\nKural 1044<\/p>\n
Privation produces unmindfulness, which gives birth
\nto improper words, even in men of proper birth.
\nKural 1045<\/p>\n
Poverty is that single sorrow which
\ngives rise to a multitude of miseries.
\nKural 1046<\/p>\n
Even when the poor perceive profoundly and speak skillfully,
\ntheir most meaningful words are always forgotten.
\nKural 1047<\/p>\n
He who is impoverished and estranged from virtue will be
\nregarded as a stranger even by his own mother.
\nKural 1048<\/p>\n
Will the wretched poverty that nearly
\nkilled me yesterday come again today?
\nKural 1049<\/p>\n
Men may slumber even in the midst of fire,
\nbut none can find repose in the midst of poverty.
\nKural 1050<\/p>\n
Lacking a morsel of food, a man may either
\nslay every desire or kill off his neighbor’s salt and rice broth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kural 1041 Ask what is more miserable than being poor, and the answer comes–only poverty pains like poverty. Kural 1042 Poverty, the cruelest of demons, deprives a man of every joy in this life, then takes them from the next life. Kural 1043 Craving, another name for poverty, will obliterate at once ancestral honor and dignity of speech. Kural 1044 Privation produces unmindfulness, which gives birth to improper words, even in men of proper birth. Kural 1045 Poverty is that single sorrow which gives rise to a multitude of miseries. Kural 1046 Even when the poor perceive profoundly and speak <\/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-7563","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\/7563","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=7563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7563\/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=7563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}