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\u0bb5\u0bbe\u0b9a\u0b95\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd. \u0ba4\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bbe\u0ba4\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0ba3 \u0ba8\u0bbe\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bc7\u0baf\u0bc7 \u0b85\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0b92\u0bb0\u0bc1 \u0baa\u0bc6\u0bb0\u0bbf\u0baf \u0bae\u0bc1\u0baf\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0b9a\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bc8 \u0ba8\u0b9f\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd.","explanation_en":"The previous verse said household life is enough. This verse takes it a step further: one who conducts household life in the proper manner is foremost among all those who strive after virtue. 'Muyalvaar' are those who strive for virtue, wisdom and liberation: the brahmachari, the vanaprastha, the sannyasi and so on. Valluvar boldly says the householder stands ahead of them all.\n\nWhy so? Because while the other three engage in their striving, the one who gives them food, help and protection is the householder. He does his own striving and also stands as the support of others' striving. He carries two burdens. That is why he takes the first place.\n\nThe word 'iyalbinaan' matters here. 'Iyalbu' means the natural way, the proper way. Household life run with falsehood and deceit is improper. A life that knows its duties, fulfils them and helps others is the proper life. The inner idea is that such a life is the highest.\n\nThere is a sense of balance. Without blaming renunciants, Valluvar raises the householder not just next to them but alongside and ahead of them. It gives dignity to the working majority of society. It gives the self-confidence that labouring and keeping a family are not low acts.\n\nIn praising the verse, we must not slip into belittling others. Valluvar does not scorn any path. Each path has a role. 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The sage Agastya was lofty in austerity. The Purana praises him as the one who humbled the Vindhya mountain in the north and came to the south. Tamil tradition also reveres him as a teacher of Tamil grammar. In his youth this sage preferred the life of renunciation.\n\nOne day he saw his ancestors. They lay wasting in a pit and begged for a son to carry on the line. Agastya looked for a suitable wife. Wishing to make a woman excellent in every quality, he gathered the beautiful parts of many creatures and created a girl, says tradition.\n\nThe girl grew up in the house of the king of Vidarbha. Her name was Lopamudra. Though a princess, she agreed to marry the sage. Leaving the silks and jewels of the palace, she put on bark garments and came to the hermitage. She took part fully in her husband's ascetic life.\n\nThe two practised austerity. As time went on Lopamudra said gently, \"Sage, you must respect my right to the joys of household life too.\" Agastya heard this and set out to gather wealth through his austerity. He thought it right to seek what household life needs by the way of virtue.\n\nThe Mahabharata says that a son called Dridhasyu was then born to them and the sorrow of the ancestors ended. Agastya conquered the world by austerity; with Lopamudra's help he conquered household life too.\n\nHis was a life that joined austerity and household. That a sage changed his course out of respect for his wife's word shows the beauty of household life. Because he carried on both efforts together, austerity and household life, one may say he stood foremost among all who practise austerity.","reflection_ta":"\u0b89\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0b87\u0bb2\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9a\u0bbf\u0baf\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0bc8\u0bb5\u0bc7\u0bb1 \u0bb5\u0bc0\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b85\u0bae\u0bc8\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bbe\u0b95 \u0b89\u0bb4\u0bc8\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0baf\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd? \u0b85\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1 \u0ba8\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bbf \u0b9a\u0bca\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb2\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0bc0\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bbe?","reflection_en":"Whose quiet effort at home makes your own ambitions possible, and have you thanked them?","image_prompt":"Sage Agastya and his wife Lopamudra seated together at their forest hermitage at dusk, she in simple bark garments offering water to him, the sage with white beard and rudraksha, a hut and banana trees behind them. 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