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There is no fixed measure that says the fruit of hospitality is so much; the fruit of this sacrifice is proportionate to the worth of the guest.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","kural_section":[31],"literary_category":[6],"author_poet":[22],"thinai_type":[],"work_title":[12],"class_list":["post-289","verse","type-verse","status-publish","hentry","kural_section-illaraviyal","literary_category-patinenkilkanakku","author_poet-thiruvalluvar","work_title-thirukkural"],"acf":{"traditional_verse_number":"\u0b95\u0bc1\u0bb1\u0bb3\u0bcd 87","verse_sort":87,"tamil_verse_text":"\u0b87\u0ba9\u0bc8\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0ba3\u0bc8\u0ba4\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bc6\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0baa\u0ba4\u0bca\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0bb1\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb2\u0bc8 \u0bb5\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd\n\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0ba3\u0bc8\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0ba3\u0bc8 \u0bb5\u0bc7\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0baa\u0bcd 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A velvi is a Vedic yajna. Its fruit depends on the devotion of the doer, the offerings and the worth of the recipient. The same is true of the fruit of the sacrifice of hospitality.\n\n'Inaiththunaiththu enbadhu ondru illai' means one cannot say it is so much. That is, the fruit of hospitality has no fixed limit. It does not mean that even a small help gives great fruit if it goes to a great guest, and small fruit if it goes to a humble one.\n\n'Virundhin thunaiththunai' means in proportion to the guest's nature. Parimelazhagar takes it as: the fruit is as great as the worth of the guest who came. By this, the fruit of serving a guest high in knowledge and austerity is great.\n\nThis verse must be read with care. It is not said to make distinctions between high and low guests. To honour anyone who comes to the door is virtue. But the verse shows that if the guest is of high worth, the fruit of service to him grows.\n\nAnother reading is also given: the more in need the guest is, the more truly hungry, the higher the fruit of the feast. When food does not go waste but answers real hunger, it becomes a full sacrifice.\n\nWe see this in the help we give in life too. Help given at the right time to the right person bears more fruit.\n\nAbove all, if God himself comes as the guest, how high is the fruit! 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Though born in the asura line, Mahabali was a grandson of Prahlada and of good character. By his strength he conquered all three worlds and took heaven from Indra. He performed a great sacrifice to establish his rule.\n\nIndra and the other gods appealed to Vishnu. Vishnu took birth as Vamana, a dwarf brahmin boy. He came to the place where Mahabali's sacrifice was being held. Seeing him come with an umbrella, a water-pot and a deerskin, Mahabali rose and welcomed him.\n\n\"What do you want? Gold, a town, elephants?\" asked Mahabali. Vamana smiled and said, \"Three paces of land measured by my own feet are enough.\"\n\nThen the guru of the asuras, Shukracharya, stopped him. \"Mahabali, this is no ordinary boy. This is Vishnu. He has come to take all your wealth. Do not give your word,\" he warned. Mahabali reflected. \"Master, if the Lord himself has come to beg of me, what greater good fortune can I have? I shall not break my word once given,\" he said.\n\nWhen he came to pour the water of gift, Shukracharya entered the mouth of the water vessel as a bee to try to block it. Vamana poked it with a blade of darbha grass and the guru lost an eye, the tale says. Mahabali completed the gift.\n\nAt that instant Vamana took the cosmic form. With one step he measured the earth and with another the heavens. When he asked, \"Where is room for the third step?\", Mahabali bowed and said, \"Place it on my head.\" Vamana placed his foot on his head and sent him to the world of Sutala.\n\nThe life of Mahabali, who gave everything to the Lord who came as a guest, is the highest fruit of the sacrifice of hospitality.","reflection_ta":"\u0bae\u0bbf\u0b95\u0bc1\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4 \u0ba4\u0bc7\u0bb5\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bc1\u0b9f\u0bc8\u0baf \u0b85\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb2\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b89\u0baf\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4 \u0b92\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bb0\u0bbe\u0b95 \u0bb5\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbe\u0bb2\u0bcd, \u0bae\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0bb1 \u0b8e\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bcb\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0bae\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb4\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bc1\u0b9f\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0bb4\u0bc1\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bb5\u0bc7\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bc7\u0ba9\u0bbe?","reflection_en":"If a guest came with great need or great worth, would I rise as willingly as for any other?","image_prompt":"The dwarf brahmin boy Vamana with an umbrella and water pot standing before the king Mahabali who pours water from a vessel in his hand, Shukracharya as a bee in the spout in a small panel, the cosmic form of Vishnu rising golden behind them, a sacrificial fire and priests. 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