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The Holy Kural
Written over two millenia ago by Saint Tiruvalluvar,
translated under the guidance of Gurudeva, Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Perfect Goodness |
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Verse 981
It is said that all good things are natural to those
Who know their duty and walk the path of perfect goodness.
Verse 982
Perfect men hold as good their own good character.
No other goodness is so perfectly good.
Verse 983
Love, modesty, propriety, kindly look, and truthfulness -
These are the five pillars on which perfect goodness rests.
Verse 984
Penance is that goodness which refrains from killing.
Perfection is that goodness which refuses to tell others' faults.
Verse 985
Humility is the strength of the strong and the weapon
With which the wise conquer their foes.
Verse 986
The touchstone of one's unalloyed character
Is accepting defeat from inferiors unabashedly.
Verse 987
Of what avail is perfect goodness if it does not do good
Even to those who have caused pain?
Verse 988
Deprived of all else, one remains undisgraced
If endowed with strength of character.
Verse 989
Destiny's last days may surge with oceanic change,
Yet men deemed perfectly good remain, like the shore, unchanged.
Verse 990
Should the perfect virtue of perfect men diminish,
The robust earth would bear our burdensomeness no more.
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