{"id":329,"date":"2026-10-25T15:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T15:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/?post_type=verse&#038;p=329"},"modified":"2026-10-30T07:53:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T07:53:51","slug":"kural-127","status":"publish","type":"verse","link":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/verse\/kural-127\/","title":{"rendered":"Kural 127 \u00b7 \u0baf\u0bbe\u0b95\u0bbe\u0bb5\u0bbe \u0bb0\u0bbe\u0baf\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0bbe\u0b95\u0bbe\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95 \u0b95\u0bbe\u0bb5\u0bbe\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbe\u0bb2\u0bcd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u0baf\u0bbe\u0b95\u0bbe\u0bb5\u0bbe \u0bb0\u0bbe\u0baf\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0bbe\u0b95\u0bbe\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95 \u0b95\u0bbe\u0bb5\u0bbe\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbe\u0bb2\u0bcd<br \/>\n\u0b9a\u0bcb\u0b95\u0bbe\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bca\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb2\u0bbf\u0bb4\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1\u0baa\u0bcd \u0baa\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc1.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever else one fails to guard, let him guard his tongue; 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\u0b85\u0ba4\u0bc8\u0ba4\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bbe\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bbf \u0bb5\u0bc6\u0bb3\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bc7 \u0bb5\u0bbf\u0bb4\u0bc1\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4 \u0b9a\u0bca\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb2\u0bc8\u0baa\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bbf\u0b9f\u0bbf\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b87\u0bb4\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95 \u0b87\u0baf\u0bb2\u0bbe\u0ba4\u0bc1.","explanation_en":"Yaa kaavaaraayinum means 'whatever else one may fail to guard'. In life there is much to protect: wealth, health, name, relationships. Valluvar says that if we cannot guard all of these, we must at least guard the tongue. The reason is plain. Lost money can be earned again and lost health can be restored by treatment, but a spoken word cannot be taken back. The moment it leaves the mouth, it has left our hands.\n\nSome readers take 'guard the tongue' to mean simply keep silent, but that is not the whole sense. Most commentators understand it as choosing words that do no harm, that are true, and that are measured. The word sokaappar, 'they will grieve', tells us that the sorrow does not come from outside; it is born from the word we ourselves let slip.\n\nModern life gives us endless proof. A sharp word spoken in anger breaks a friendship, a hasty message costs a job, a joke told for fun splits a family. People who pause for two breaths before speaking escape such regrets. That pause is the discipline the verse wants us to learn. It is not a gag on honesty, because truth can be told gently and at the right time. 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At Indraprastha the divine architect Maya built a marvellous hall for the Pandavas. In it, floors looked like water and water looked like floor, and there were doors that were not doors. After the Rajasuya sacrifice, Duryodhana walked through the hall admiring it.\n\nThinking a floor was water, he lifted his garments, and later he mistook real water for floor and fell into it. Tradition says some who stood by laughed. Among the laughter, one barbed remark, attributed by the popular tradition to Draupadi, lodged like a flame in Duryodhana's mind. It mocked his birth and his blindness of judgement.\n\nWe cannot know how far such words travel. Duryodhana's heart burned and the humiliation consumed him. According to the story it became the spur that led him, with Shakuni, to organise the game of dice. In that game the Pandavas lost their kingdom, and Draupadi was humiliated in the assembly.\n\nElders explain that a mere laugh and a sharp remark can become the starting point of a great war. The incident is told differently in different versions of the epic: in some, Draupadi herself laughs, in others it is someone else. However it is told, the lesson about the power of a word remains.\n\nThe story reminds us that unguarded speech brings sorrow to both the speaker and the one spoken to. In our own homes and workplaces too, small words can build large consequences.","reflection_ta":"\u0ba8\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bca\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb2\u0baa\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bcb\u0b95\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bca\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b89\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0bae\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bbe, \u0b87\u0ba9\u0bbf\u0bae\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bbe, \u0ba4\u0bc7\u0bb5\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bbe \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1 \u0b87\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1 \u0b8e\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0ba9\u0bc8 \u0bae\u0bc1\u0bb1\u0bc8 \u0b9a\u0bbf\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc7\u0ba9\u0bcd?","reflection_en":"How many times today did I stop to ask whether my next word was true, kind and needed?","image_prompt":"Duryodhana standing in a magnificent crystal-floored hall at Indraprastha, hesitating at a pool that looks like floor, courtiers and queens watching from pillars, a sense of unease, Mahabharata scene, warm palm-leaf manuscript and Tanjore-painting inspired style, ivory, ochre, copper and deep teal palette, ornate gold border, no text or letters in the image."},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/329","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\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/329\/revisions\/1586"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adhigaram\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kural_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kural_section?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"literary_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_category?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"author_poet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author_poet?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"thinai_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thinai_type?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"work_title","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work_title?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}