Any global collation of the publications of peace and of great souls would not be complete without first hand reference to this two thousand year-old text of wisdom from the weaver Saint Tiruvalluvar. The Age may gradually change like the mist rising out of the high mountain valleys, but the nature of the daylight - of the substance of wisdom - is beyond the terrestrial realms of time ... for it represents expression of the nature of the the cosmic environment.

There is a continuing evolution of aspiration and thought such that the recognition of this inner human cosmic environment, over and above the day-to-day terrestrial environment, must also indeed form a foundational part of the inner environmental nature of humanity and its myriad individuals. The expression of these eternal principals are the expressions of the evolving human soul - expressions of Global Terrestrial Nativity and the Cosmic Solidarity of the Human Soul. In all lands beneath the sun, and in all Ages which have flowed with their great rivers and oceans over the face of this planetary cradle of continuously emergent life, the spirit of a deeper truth has been echoing through the words and actions of the scattered folk out of the scattered tribes of man.

The scope of the Tirukural is broad in its approach to the realms of life, and its observations engender contemplation for the students. And we are all - each of us - the students of life.

I would like again to congratulate the unceasing efforts of the Himalayan Academy in their labors of translation and original publication of this text. It is hoped that this publication has been found a resource to its readers, and that the wisdom of the Holy Kural will once again find its place in the emergent world of the third millenia after its origination within the pristine southern lands of ancient India.

All the best,

Pete Brown
Mountain Man Graphics,
Newport Beach, Australia
Southern Winter of 1997

E-Mail: mtm@mountainman.com.au