{"id":8245,"date":"2017-12-08T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T02:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/?p=8245"},"modified":"2017-09-07T16:24:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T13:24:43","slug":"tirukular-chapter-23-charity-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/tirukural\/tirukular-chapter-23-charity-3","title":{"rendered":"Tirukular. Chapter 23: Charity."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kural 221<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4856 alignleft\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>Giving to the poor is true charity.<br \/>\nAll other giving expects some return.<br \/>\nKural 222<\/p>\n<p>Though some may declare it a good path, garnering gifts is bad.<br \/>\nEven if they say it denies one Heaven, giving gifts is good.<br \/>\nKural 223<\/p>\n<p>Men of good birth graciously give,<br \/>\nnever uttering the wretched excuse, &#8221;I have nothing.&#8221;<br \/>\nKural 224<\/p>\n<p>How unpleasant a beggar&#8217;s pleading can become,<br \/>\nuntil one sees his face so sweetly pleased.<br \/>\nKural 225<\/p>\n<p>Great, indeed, is the power to endure hunger.<br \/>\nGreater still is the power to relieve others&#8217; hunger.<br \/>\nKural 226<\/p>\n<p>Relieving the ravaging hunger of the poor<br \/>\nis a right use for wealth men have obtained.<br \/>\nKural 227<\/p>\n<p>The fiery scourge called hunger never touches<br \/>\nthe man who shares his daily meal with others.<br \/>\nKural 228<\/p>\n<p>Is it because they are unaware of the joys of giving<br \/>\nthat hard-hearted men waste their wealth by hoarding it?<br \/>\nKural 229<\/p>\n<p>More bitter than even a beggar&#8217;s bread is the meal<br \/>\nof the miser who hoards wealth and eats alone.<br \/>\nKural 230<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing more bitter than death;<br \/>\nyet even death seems sweet when giving is impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kural 221 Giving to the poor is true charity. All other giving expects some return. Kural 222 Though some may declare it a good path, garnering gifts is bad. Even if they say it denies one Heaven, giving gifts is good. Kural 223 Men of good birth graciously give, never uttering the wretched excuse, &#8221;I have nothing.&#8221; Kural 224 How unpleasant a beggar&#8217;s pleading can become, until one sees his face so sweetly pleased. Kural 225 Great, indeed, is the power to endure hunger. Greater still is the power to relieve others&#8217; hunger. Kural 226 Relieving the ravaging hunger of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8245","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\/8245","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=8245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}