{"id":383,"date":"2026-10-26T03:37:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T03:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/?post_type=verse&#038;p=383"},"modified":"2026-10-30T07:53:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T07:53:55","slug":"kural-181","status":"publish","type":"verse","link":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/verse\/kural-181\/","title":{"rendered":"Kural 181 \u00b7 \u0b85\u0bb1\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc2\u0bb1\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b85\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb2 \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0baf\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b92\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0ba9\u0bcd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u0b85\u0bb1\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc2\u0bb1\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b85\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb2 \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0baf\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b92\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0ba9\u0bcd<br \/>\n\u0baa\u0bc1\u0bb1\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc2\u0bb1\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b87\u0ba9\u0bbf\u0ba4\u0bc1.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if a man neither speaks of dharma nor acts by it, to be called &#8216;one who does not backbite&#8217; 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Suppose a man neither speaks of dharma nor does the deeds of dharma, and does wrong. We would have no respect for him. But if a good word could be said of him, 'whatever his faults, he does not backbite,' that alone is sweet, says Valluvar. In this way he shows how rare and how valuable the quality of not backbiting is.\n\nCommentators give two senses of 'arangooraan'. One is 'one who does not utter dharma'; the other is 'one who does not even think of dharma in his mind'. In either case his conduct is incomplete. Yet for such a man too, not backbiting adds a fragrance. Others can trust him with their secrets, and so he gains respect.\n\nWhy is not backbiting so highly valued? Because it is the subtlest form of not harming others. A raised hand that strikes is easily seen; a stab from behind with the tongue is not obvious. That wound is deep. A man who refrains from it, whatever his other faults, is not a danger to others.\n\nThis does not mean other faults can be tolerated. Not backbiting can be seen as a first step. A man who has practised this one quality slowly gains the maturity to accept other virtues. 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'\u0baa\u0bc1\u0bb1\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc2\u0bb1\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b87\u0ba9\u0bbf\u0ba4\u0bc1' \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1 \u0b95\u0bc1\u0bb1\u0bb3\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc8 \u0b85\u0bb5\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bbe\u0bb4\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bc1 \u0b8e\u0bb3\u0bbf\u0bae\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bbe\u0b95\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bbe\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bbf\u0baf\u0ba4\u0bc1.","story_title_en":"Murugan's Silence","story_en":"This is an imagined story about Murugan, a weaver who lived in a temple town of Tamil Nadu. In a street of Kanchipuram, Murugan lived weaving silk saris. He was poor, without wealth enough for big gifts. He was also irregular about going to the temple and sometimes forgot the darshan. He never sat in the hall where learned scholars gave discourses. It was no surprise that townspeople thought of him as one who 'does not speak of dharma'.\n\nBut Murugan had one habit. He never spoke of anyone behind his back. In the weaving shed, when other weavers talked about the silk merchants or the neighbours, Murugan bent over his loom and wove quietly. If someone invited him to join in, he would say, \"I ask myself whether I would say it if he were here. I would not. So I will not say it now either.\"\n\nOne day a neighbouring merchant was in a great tangle over his daughter's wedding arrangements. When the groom's family asked around in the town, many people made up one fault or another. They asked Murugan too. \"As far as I have seen, everyone in that family is hardworking. Beyond that I do not know, and what I do not know I will not say,\" he replied. This one sentence helped that wedding to take place.\n\nThe village elder, Sivacharya, heard of it. At a gathering he said, \"Murugan does not come to the discourses, yet by this quality he has done good to many.\" From that day Murugan's name in the town became a byword for 'one who does not backbite.'\n\nThough Murugan remained all his life one who did not speak dharma, this quality brought him respect and trust. In his last days the whole town gathered to pay homage. His life showed in simple form the thought of the verse: to be called 'one who does not backbite' is sweet.","reflection_ta":"\u0ba8\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bc7\u0b9a\u0bbe\u0bae\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bbf\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b92\u0bb5\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bca\u0bb0\u0bc1 \u0baa\u0bb4\u0bbf\u0b9a\u0bcd\u0b9a\u0bca\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb2\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b92\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bc6\u0baf\u0bb0\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bbe\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0baa\u0ba4\u0bc8 \u0ba8\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0bc7\u0ba9\u0bbe?","reflection_en":"Do I remember that every slander I leave unspoken protects someone's good name?","image_prompt":"A humble weaver at a wooden loom in a Kanchipuram street weaving silk with lowered eyes while other weavers chatter in a corner, temple gopuram visible through the doorway, lamps and silk threads in warm light, 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\/383","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\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/383\/revisions\/2339"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adhigaram\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kural_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kural_section?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"literary_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_category?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"author_poet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author_poet?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"thinai_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thinai_type?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"work_title","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work_title?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}