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The Holy Kural
Written over two millenia ago by Saint Tiruvalluvar,
translated under the guidance of Gurudeva, Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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Verse 1041
Ask what is more miserable than being poor
And the answer comes - only poverty pains like poverty.
Verse 1042
Poverty, the cruelest of demons, deprives a man
Of every joy in this life as well as the next.
Verse 1043
That poison called poverty will destroy obliterate at once
The honor of ancient descent and the refinement of speech.
Verse 1044
Privation produces unmindfulness which gives birth
To improper words, even in men of proper birth.
Verse 1045
This one affliction called poverty
Brings in its train a multitude of miseries.
Verse 1046
The poor may perceive profoundly and speak skillfully,
Yet their meaningful words are always forgotten.
Verse 1047
Poverty, destitute of all virtue, estranges a man
Even from the mother who bore him.
Verse 1048
Will wretched poverty which is killing me so (I think)
Come again today as of yesterday?
Verse 1049
Men may slumber even in the midst of fire,
But none can find repose in poverty's presence.
Verse 1050
Having become fatilly impoverished, let a man fully renounce,
Lest he fatally exhaust his neighbor's vinegar and salt.
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