{"id":8249,"date":"2017-12-10T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T02:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/?p=8249"},"modified":"2017-09-07T16:27:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T13:27:10","slug":"tirukular-chapter-25-possession-of-compassion-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/tirukural\/tirukular-chapter-25-possession-of-compassion-3","title":{"rendered":"Tirukular. Chapter 25: Possession of Compassion."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Section III: The Way of The Renunciate<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 25: Possession of Compassion<\/p>\n<p>Kural 241<\/p>\n<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\" \/>Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth,<br \/>\nfor material wealth is possessed even by contemptible men.<br \/>\nKural 242<\/p>\n<p>Find and follow the good path, ruled by compassion.<br \/>\nOf the many ways, that one leads to liberation.<br \/>\nKural 243<\/p>\n<p>Those whose hearts are drawn toward mercy<br \/>\nwill never be drawn into the dark and woeful world.<br \/>\nKural 244<\/p>\n<p>Kindly ones who lovingly protect all life<br \/>\nneed never dread hurt from the actions of their own life.<br \/>\nKural 245<\/p>\n<p>This wide and wind-swept fertile Earth is witness to the truth<br \/>\nthat misery is not for kind-hearted men.<br \/>\nKural 246<\/p>\n<p>They say those who act cruelly by forsaking kindness<br \/>\nmust have forgotten what it means to forsake virtue.<br \/>\nKural 247<\/p>\n<p>As this world is not for the penniless,<br \/>\nso is that world not for the pitiless!<br \/>\nKural 248<\/p>\n<p>Those without wealth may one day prosper,<br \/>\nbut those without kindness are utterly and incurably poor.<br \/>\nKural 249<\/p>\n<p>Practicing charity without compassion is as inconceivable<br \/>\nas realizing God without clarity of mind.<br \/>\nKural 250<\/p>\n<p>Before proceeding against men weaker than yourself,<br \/>\nponder when you stood before those more powerful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Section III: The Way of The Renunciate Chapter 25: Possession of Compassion Kural 241 Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth, for material wealth is possessed even by contemptible men. Kural 242 Find and follow the good path, ruled by compassion. Of the many ways, that one leads to liberation. Kural 243 Those whose hearts are drawn toward mercy will never be drawn into the dark and woeful world. Kural 244 Kindly ones who lovingly protect all life need never dread hurt from the actions of their own life. Kural 245 This wide and wind-swept fertile Earth is <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8249","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\/8249","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=8249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}