{"id":3403,"date":"2026-10-31T17:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T17:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/verse\/moodhurai-1\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T17:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T17:47:11","slug":"moodhurai-1","status":"publish","type":"verse","link":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/verse\/moodhurai-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Moodurai 1 \u00b7 \u0ba8\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bbf \u0b92\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1\u0b9a\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0baf\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbe\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b85\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba8\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bbf"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you help someone, do not ask when they will repay it. The coconut palm drinks water at its roots and returns it from its crown as sweet tender coconut; so a good deed returns of itself.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","kural_section":[],"literary_category":[],"author_poet":[25],"thinai_type":[],"work_title":[47],"class_list":["post-3403","verse","type-verse","status-publish","hentry","author_poet-avvaiyar","work_title-moodhurai"],"acf":{"traditional_verse_number":"1","verse_sort":1,"tamil_verse_text":"\u0ba8\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bbf \u0b92\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1\u0b9a\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0baf\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbe\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b85\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba8\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bbf\n\u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1 \u0ba4\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bca\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0ba9 \u0bb5\u0bc7\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bbe - \u0ba8\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1\n\u0ba4\u0bb3\u0bb0\u0bbe \u0bb5\u0bb3\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc6\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1 \u0ba4\u0bbe\u0bb3\u0bc1\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f \u0ba8\u0bc0\u0bb0\u0bc8\u0ba4\u0bcd\n\u0ba4\u0bb2\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bbe\u0bb2\u0bc7 \u0ba4\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0ba4 \u0bb2\u0bbe\u0bb2\u0bcd","english_translation":"When you help someone, do not ask when they will repay it. The coconut palm drinks water at its roots and returns it from its crown as sweet tender coconut; so a good deed returns of itself.","historical_notes":"\u0baa\u0bca\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bb3\u0bcd: \u0b92\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1 \u0b89\u0ba4\u0bb5\u0bbf \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0baf\u0bcd\u0baf\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bcb\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b85\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bcb\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bbf\u0ba4\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1 \u0b8e\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0ba3 \u0bb5\u0bc7\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bbe\u0bae\u0bcd; \u0ba4\u0bc6\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0ba9\u0bc8 \u0bb5\u0bc7\u0bb0\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b89\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f \u0ba8\u0bc0\u0bb0\u0bc8\u0ba4\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bb2\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b87\u0bb3\u0ba8\u0bc0\u0bb0\u0bbe\u0b95\u0ba4\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0baa\u0bcb\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bbf \u0ba4\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bc7 \u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bbf \u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd.\n\n\u0ba4\u0bc6\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0ba9\u0bc8 \u0b89\u0bb5\u0bae\u0bc8 \u0ba8\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b87\u0baf\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bbe\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0ba4\u0bc1: \u0b95\u0bca\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0baa\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bae\u0b9f\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbe\u0b95\u0ba4\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd. \u0b95\u0bc0\u0ba4\u0bc8 \u0b9a\u0bca\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0baa\u0bcb\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bb2\u0ba9\u0bc8 \u0b8e\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bbe\u0bae\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b95\u0b9f\u0bae\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bc8\u0b9a\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0baf\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0ba4\u0bc7 \u0b9a\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bc1.\n\nThe coconut image shows how kindness returns many times over. As the Gita teaches, do your duty without craving its fruit.\n\nTransliteration: Nanri oruvarkkus seythakkaal annanri \/ Enru tharungkol ena vaentaa - ninru \/ Thalaraa valarthengku thaalunta neeraith \/ Thalaiyaalae thaantharutha laal","kural_adhigaram":null,"transliteration":"Nanri oruvarkkus seythakkaal annanri \/ Enru tharungkol ena vaentaa - ninru \/ Thalaraa valarthengku thaalunta neeraith \/ Thalaiyaalae thaantharutha laal","couplet_en":"","word_meanings":"\u0ba8\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bbf|a good deed, help\n\u0b92\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1|to someone\n\u0b9a\u0bc6\u0baf\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbe\u0bb2\u0bcd|when one has done\n\u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1 \u0ba4\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bca\u0bb2\u0bcd|when will he return it?\n\u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bb5\u0bc7\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bbe|need not think\n\u0ba4\u0bb3\u0bb0\u0bbe|unwearying\n\u0bb5\u0bb3\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bc6\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1|the growing coconut palm\n\u0ba4\u0bbe\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0b89\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f \u0ba8\u0bc0\u0bb0\u0bcd|water drunk at its foot (roots)\n\u0ba4\u0bb2\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bbe\u0bb2\u0bc7|from its head (crown)\n\u0ba4\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0ba4\u0bb2\u0bbe\u0bb2\u0bcd|because it gives back","meaning_ta":"\u0b92\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1 \u0b89\u0ba4\u0bb5\u0bbf \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0baf\u0bcd\u0baf\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bcb\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b85\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bcb\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bbf\u0ba4\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1 \u0b8e\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0ba3 \u0bb5\u0bc7\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bbe\u0bae\u0bcd; \u0ba4\u0bc6\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0ba9\u0bc8 \u0bb5\u0bc7\u0bb0\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b89\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f \u0ba8\u0bc0\u0bb0\u0bc8\u0ba4\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bb2\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b87\u0bb3\u0ba8\u0bc0\u0bb0\u0bbe\u0b95\u0ba4\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0baa\u0bcb\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bbf \u0ba4\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bc7 \u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bbf \u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd.","meaning_en":"When you help someone, do not ask when they will repay it. 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When we help someone, a quiet voice in us often asks, \"When will they pay this back?\" Avvaiyar tells us not to keep that ledger at all, and she makes her point with the most familiar tree of the Tamil landscape: the coconut palm.\n\nThe water we pour at the foot of a coconut palm is ordinary water, given low down, out of sight, at the roots. Yet the palm does not forget it. Years later it returns that water from its crown, transformed into sweet tender coconut. What was given below comes back from above; what was plain comes back sweet. The words \"standing, unwearying, growing\" remind us that the palm goes on giving for as long as it stands.\n\nThe Bhagavad Gita teaches us to do our duty without clinging to its fruit. Avvaiyar teaches the same truth through a scene from any village garden. Help given without calculation becomes dharma, and dharma is never wasted; it returns, often in a form and at a time we could not have predicted. Teaching a struggling student, helping a neighbour through a hard month, caring for an elderly relative: we cannot know when or how such deeds will come back to us, only that they will. 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On the shore of Lake Pampa stood the hermitage of the sage Matanga. There lived Shabari, a humble woman who served the sages. She swept the ashram, gathered flowers for worship and wild fruits for the table, and cared for every need of the hermits. She asked for nothing in return.\n\nWhen the time came for the sages to leave for the higher worlds, they told her, \"One day Sri Rama will come to this hermitage. When you have welcomed him, you too will reach the realm we are going to.\"\n\nYears passed and Shabari grew old. Still, every day she kept the ashram clean and gathered fruits from the forest for Rama. She did not count the days or ask when he would come; she simply went on serving.\n\nOne day Rama and Lakshmana, wandering in search of Sita, arrived at the hermitage. Shabari fell at their feet and offered them, with great love, the fruits she had gathered. Rama honoured her devotion and her austerity, and she told the brothers the way to find Sugriva. Then, in Rama's presence, she gave up her body in the fire of yoga and rose to the higher world the sages had gone to.\n\nLike water poured year after year at the roots of a palm, Shabari's quiet service came back to her in the end as the arrival of God himself.","reflection_ta":"\u0ba8\u0bc0\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0b95\u0b9f\u0bc8\u0b9a\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bbe\u0b95\u0b9a\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0baf\u0bcd\u0ba4 \u0b89\u0ba4\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bc8 \u0ba8\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bc8\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0baa\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd: \u0b85\u0ba4\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1\u0baa\u0bcd \u0baa\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc0\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bbe, \u0b85\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb2\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0ba4\u0bc6\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0ba9\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1 \u0ba8\u0bc0\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0b8a\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0baa\u0bcb\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0bae\u0ba9\u0bae\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0baf\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc0\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bbe?","reflection_en":"Think of the last time you helped someone. Were you waiting for something in return, or did you give the way a gardener waters a young palm?","image_prompt":"Elderly Shabari in a simple forest hermitage by Lake Pampa offering a leaf-plate of wild fruits to Rama and Lakshmana, a tall coconut palm rising behind them, Tanjore-painting inspired style with palm-leaf manuscript texture, 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\/3403","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/3403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kural_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kural_section?post=3403"},{"taxonomy":"literary_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_category?post=3403"},{"taxonomy":"author_poet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author_poet?post=3403"},{"taxonomy":"thinai_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thinai_type?post=3403"},{"taxonomy":"work_title","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work_title?post=3403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}