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The one who first comes down and speaks, or first smiles, or first asks forgiveness. The world would generally call them the losers. But Valluvar says, 'Those who lose in a sulk are the winners.' For the fruit of that defeat shows in the union; the one who yielded first is the first to receive love.\n\nIn 'athu mannum' the particle 'mannum' shows certainty. It means that this victory is sure. That it 'will be seen in the union' means that the fruit of the victory is revealed in the joy of union. What the loser gave up was a trifling pride; what he gained was full love.\n\nThis is a deep lesson in life. Victory in a relationship does not lie in defeating the other; it lies in the two joining. One who tries to win in the sulk loses the union; one who dares to lose in the sulk gains the union. So true victory lies in the courage to accept defeat.\n\nCommentators such as Parimelazhagar also take this as counsel that the sulk should soon be soothed and not prolonged. The inner sense is that if the hero himself first yields, the heroine too will be glad.\n\nIn our lives too, in family and friendship, the one who first comes down protects the relationship. The stubbornness of 'Why should I speak first?' has broken many relationships. 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","story_title_en":"The Kabaddi Champion and His Wife's Sulk","story_en":"This is an imagined story set in Hindu cultural life.\n\nIn a village near Madurai Murugesan was the village's famous kabaddi player. Everyone said no one could defeat him. His wife Valli was very loving; but she had a stubbornness just like her husband's.\n\nAt a Pongal festival Murugesan got absorbed in the kabaddi match and forgot the task Valli had asked of him. She waited and waited at home and grew sad. When he returned home at night she turned her face away without a word. In his pride Murugesan thought, 'Do you know how many I have defeated? In this house too I will be the one to win,' and simply sat there.\n\nThe two did not speak for two days. On the morning of the third day, while playing on the kabaddi field, a truth dawned on Murugesan: the one who stands stubbornly loses the game; the one who knows when to retreat and when to advance wins. He hurried home.\n\nStanding before Valli he said, 'Valli, I have lost in this game. You have won.' Valli looked at him in surprise. 'You have lost?' she said. 'Yes; but this defeat is a great victory for me,' Murugesan smiled. Valli laughed and embraced him.\n\nFrom then on Murugesan would proudly tell the villagers that he had been defeated by his wife. His sweet victory was known only to him.","reflection_ta":"\u0ba8\u0bc0\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bc6\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb2\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bcb\u0bb5\u0ba4\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bca\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc1, \u0b87\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4 \u0bb5\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bae\u0bcd \u0baf\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bbf\u0b9f\u0bae\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bcb\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0b95 \u0bb5\u0bc7\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd?","reflection_en":"Whom do you need to lose to this week, for the sake of what you will win?","image_prompt":"A village kabaddi champion with a medal-like garland standing before his wife in a courtyard, bowing his head with a smile as she laughs and reaches for him, a kabaddi field and cheering villagers faintly visible behind, warm palm-leaf manuscript and Tanjore-painting inspired style, ivory, ochre, copper and deep teal palette, no text or letters in the image."},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/verse"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2939,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/1529\/revisions\/2939"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adhigaram\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kural_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kural_section?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"literary_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_category?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"author_poet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author_poet?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"thinai_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thinai_type?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"work_title","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work_title?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}