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Birds seek food, animals have their coats, and every living thing multiplies its kind. In these, man has no special distinction. Valluvar packs all three basic needs, 'oon, udai, echcham', into a single phrase and says that here we are no different from others.\n\nThen in what does man differ? In the ability to look at his own deed and feel that it is not fitting. This inner scrutiny is naanudaimai. An old Sanskrit subhashita says much the same: food, sleep, fear and procreation are common to humans and beasts; dharma alone distinguishes man, and without it he is on a par with the beast. Valluvar's thought rings with it, but he names shame as the inner door of dharma. The warning for us is deep. A person may eat well, dress well, raise a family and become very rich, yet if he lacks shame he is poor in what makes us human. By contrast, a person with plain food and clothing who has naan is rich in human dignity.\n\nOur measures of success today often revolve around the very three things: food, clothing, house and family. They are needed, but this verse quietly reminds us that they alone do not make us human. Valluvar is not asking us to neglect the body's needs. Food, clothes and family are necessary. But he warns that if they become the whole purpose of life we shall remain at the animal level. 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Eight-year-old Karthik asked his grandmother Annapoorani: \"Paati, cows and dogs also eat, sleep and have young. We do the same, don't we? So what is the difference between them and us?\"\n\nShe laughed. \"A good question, kanna. Our elders asked it too.\" She handed him a piece of sugarcane. \"Eat this. But you must not eat it alone; share it with everyone first.\" Karthik hesitated for a moment. He looked at his little sister. He broke his cane in two and gave her half.\n\n\"Now tell me,\" said Paati. \"If a cow were given the cane, would it take your sister's share or not?\" \"It would,\" said Karthik. \"Why didn't you?\" \"Poor thing; she would be hungry. I'd feel ashamed to take it,\" he said.\n\n\"That shame, kanna, is the difference between us and the cow. Valluvar says eating, clothing and raising a family are common to all creatures; the special glory of a human is having naan. The wince in our heart when we do wrong is what keeps us human.\"\n\nKarthik nodded slowly. That night, before sleeping, he turned over what Paati had said. However tasty the food, taking his sister's share would not taste sweet, and that feeling, he understood for the first time, was the humanity inside him.\n\nPaati stroked his head. \"Guard this feeling. Money comes and goes. But if this goes, a man is only a body.\"","reflection_ta":"\u0ba8\u0bc0 \u0b89\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0ba3\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bcb\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b89\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b85\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b89\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0bb3\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0baa\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc8 \u0ba8\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0bbe\u0baf\u0bbe?","reflection_en":"When you eat or enjoy something, do you think of the share of the person next to you?","image_prompt":"A South Indian village courtyard after Pongal, a grandmother with a boy sharing a piece of sugarcane with his little sister, a cow and decorated Pongal pots nearby, ornate gold border. 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