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\u0b85\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bc7 \u0bb5\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0bb3\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bbe\u0bb4\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc8.","explanation_en":"This verse shows the gap between a man's words and his heart. It is easy to speak of dharma; one can give lectures, quote texts and advise others. But how do we know if that dharma is truly in his heart? Valluvar's test is simple: see whether he disparages others behind their backs.\n\nPunmai means smallness, meanness. Backbiting may seem a minor habit. But it reveals the meanness deep in the mind. Envy of others, the wish to appear great, and delight in another's fall are the roots of that meanness. As long as they remain, the dharma he speaks is only sound.\n\nOne who truly knows dharma trusts his deeds more than his words. Even when he sees a fault in another, he takes no pleasure in spreading it. Another's fault is a lesson to him; he searches for it in himself. So his tongue stays clean.\n\nTherefore a person's worth should be judged not by what he speaks on the platform, but by how he speaks where there is no audience. Society has many who preach dharma, but few who live it. This verse is a simple measure to know the truth of such conduct.\n\nIt is also a warning to the speaker. When we speak of dharma, we must test ourselves on how we behave in our own lives. Words gain weight only when speech and action become one.","story_title_ta":"\u0b87\u0bb0\u0bbe\u0bae\u0ba8\u0bbe\u0ba4 \u0baa\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bb0\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b87\u0bb0\u0bc1 \u0bae\u0bc1\u0b95\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd","story_ta":"\u0b87\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b9a\u0bcb\u0bb4 \u0ba8\u0bbe\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b92\u0bb0\u0bc1 \u0b95\u0bcb\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b8a\u0bb0\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0b9f\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4 \u0b95\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0baa\u0ba9\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0ba4\u0bc8. \u0b87\u0bb0\u0bbe\u0bae\u0ba8\u0bbe\u0ba4 \u0baa\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1 \u0baa\u0bc6\u0baf\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b9f\u0bc8\u0baf \u0b92\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0b85\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4 \u0b8a\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bcb\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bc1\u0bb0\u0bbe\u0ba3\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bc8\u0baa\u0bcd \u0baa\u0b9f\u0bbf\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0bb5\u0bbf\u0bb3\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0baa\u0ba3\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b87\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd. \u0b85\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bc1\u0bb0\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b87\u0ba9\u0bbf\u0bae\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0ba4\u0bc1; 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A man named Ramanatha Bhattar served in the village temple, reading and expounding the Puranas. His voice was sweet and his speech rich. During the month of Margazhi the whole village gathered to hear his discourse. He spoke movingly of love, humility, patience and forgiveness. Many honoured him as dharma in person.\n\nBut when the discourse ended and he sat on the veranda, he became another man. He would speak ill of anyone: the village traders, neighbours, temple trustees. \"Do you think his business is honest? It is all show,\" he would say. \"I hear that woman's conduct is not good.\" He never looked to see what the truth was. But as his words carried great weight in the village, these accusations spread quickly.\n\nBecause of this a good trader's business declined, and a family's daughter's marriage was obstructed. Some hardworking people were shunned in the village. A young priest who saw all this was troubled. One day he said softly to Bhattar, \"Sir, you spoke beautifully of forgiveness in today's discourse. What you said on the veranda yesterday also fell on my ears.\"\n\nBhattar first flared up. Then he was quiet. That night he could not sleep. He realised that the words he spoke on the platform were absent from his life. Next day he first went to the trader he had slandered and asked forgiveness. He confessed his fault before the elders.\n\nAfter that his discourse sounded in a lower voice, yet deeper. His life taught that before speaking of dharma one must purify one's tongue. His earlier life stood as evidence for the verse, and his later life as its remedy: the meanness of backbiting reveals what the heart lacks.","reflection_ta":"\u0ba8\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bc7\u0b9a\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0ba9\u0bbf\u0bae\u0bc8\u0baa\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bc7\u0b9a\u0bcd\u0b9a\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b87\u0b9f\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bc7 \u0b87\u0b9f\u0bc8\u0bb5\u0bc6\u0bb3\u0bbf \u0b89\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0bb3\u0ba4\u0bbe?","reflection_en":"Is there a gap between the good things I say in public and what I say in private?","image_prompt":"A temple storyteller in white dhoti with sacred ash seated on a raised platform reading from palm-leaf manuscripts to an attentive crowd, behind him a gossiping shadow figure on a veranda whispering, Chola temple tower in the background, 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\/387","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\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2343,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/387\/revisions\/2343"}],"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=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kural_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kural_section?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"literary_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_category?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"author_poet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author_poet?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"thinai_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thinai_type?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"work_title","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work_title?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}