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Not killing and eating one living creature is better than pouring offerings into the fire in a thousand sacrifices.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","kural_section":[32],"literary_category":[6],"author_poet":[22],"thinai_type":[],"work_title":[12],"class_list":["post-461","verse","type-verse","status-publish","hentry","kural_section-thuravaraviyal","literary_category-patinenkilkanakku","author_poet-thiruvalluvar","work_title-thirukkural"],"acf":{"traditional_verse_number":"\u0b95\u0bc1\u0bb1\u0bb3\u0bcd 259","verse_sort":259,"tamil_verse_text":"\u0b85\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0b9a\u0bca\u0bb0\u0bbf\u0ba8\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bbe\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bae\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bc7\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bb2\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b92\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0ba9\u0bcd\n\u0b89\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b9a\u0bc6\u0b95\u0bc1\u0ba4\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bc1\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0ba3\u0bbe\u0bae\u0bc8 \u0ba8\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1.","english_translation":"","historical_notes":"","kural_adhigaram":95,"transliteration":"Avisorin Thaayiram Vettalin Ondran \/ Uyirsekuth Thunnaamai Nandru","couplet_en":"To abstain from the killing and eating of living things is better than to perform a thousand sacrifices in the sacrificial fire.","word_meanings":"\u0b85\u0bb5\u0bbf | offering of ghee\/food in sacrifice\n\u0b9a\u0bca\u0bb0\u0bbf\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1 | pouring (into the fire)\n\u0b86\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bae\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bc7\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bb2\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd | than performing a thousand sacrifices\n\u0b92\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0ba9\u0bcd | of any one creature\n\u0b89\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0b95\u0bc1\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1 | taking life\n\u0b89\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0ba3\u0bbe\u0bae\u0bc8 | not eating\n\u0ba8\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1 | better","meaning_ta":"\u0ba8\u0bc6\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b85\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bc8\u0b9a\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bca\u0bb0\u0bbf\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b86\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bae\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bc7\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bc8\u0b9a\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0baf\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0ba4\u0bc8\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0b9f, \u0b93\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0b89\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bca\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1 \u0b89\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0ba3\u0bbe\u0bae\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b87\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0ba4\u0bc7 \u0ba8\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb2\u0ba4\u0bc1.","meaning_en":"Not killing and eating one living creature is better than pouring offerings into the fire in a thousand sacrifices.","explanation_ta":"\u0b87\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1\u0bb1\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bc7\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bc1\u0bb1\u0bbf\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4 \u0b92\u0bb0\u0bc1 \u0b92\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bc0\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc8\u0ba4\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0ba4\u0bc1. 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\u0b85\u0ba4\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b89\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0bb3\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4 \u0ba8\u0bcb\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0bc0\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9a\u0bbf.","explanation_en":"This couplet offers a comparison with sacrifices. 'Avi' is the ghee, rice and other food poured into the sacrificial fire. 'Aayiram vettal' is the performing of a thousand sacrifices. More than the merit of so many sacrifices, Valluvar says, it is better to refrain from killing and eating one creature. This is said not to belittle sacrifice but to show the greatness of compassion.\n\nThere is a slight difference among commentators on its meaning. Parimelazhagar and some others explain it as saying that the benefit of avoiding the killing of one life is greater than that of a thousand sacrifices. Others look to the time when animal offerings were joined to sacrifices and say that the path of mercy without such offerings is higher. 'Avi sorindhu' may also be read as referring to a sacrifice where only ghee and food are offered.\n\nWhichever sense is taken, the centre of the couplet is clear: however great the rituals, a life without taking life is a dharma higher than they. This agrees with the thought in many books of our tradition. The highest aim of sacrifice is the welfare of living beings, and compassion fulfils that aim directly.\n\nThe worship and festivals we perform today are completed when they are joined to compassion. The saying of our elders that feeding one hungry creature is higher than a thousand offerings is the same thought.","story_title_ta":"\u0b95\u0bcb\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0ba9 \u0bae\u0bb2\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b86\u0baf\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd","story_ta":"\u0baa\u0bbe\u0b95\u0bb5\u0ba4 \u0baa\u0bc1\u0bb0\u0bbe\u0ba3\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0baa\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbe\u0bae\u0bcd \u0bb8\u0bcd\u0b95\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b95\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0ba3\u0ba9\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b87\u0bb3\u0bae\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bbe\u0bb2\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0ba4\u0bc8 \u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0ba4\u0bc1. \u0b95\u0bcb\u0b95\u0bc1\u0bb2\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bbe\u0bb4\u0bcd\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4 \u0b86\u0baf\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0b86\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0ba4\u0bcb\u0bb1\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0bae\u0bb4\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0b9f\u0bb5\u0bc1\u0bb3\u0bbe\u0ba9 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The cowherds of Gokula used to hold a great sacrifice each year to Indra, the god of rain. For it they spent much of their goods, milk, ghee and grain. The boy Krishna, seeing the arrangements, asked Nanda, 'Father, for whom is this sacrifice? Why do you do it?'\n\nNanda said, 'Indra is the lord of the rain. Because of rain, grass grows and cows live. So we worship him.' Krishna replied lovingly, 'Father, we are cowherds who live by grazing in the forest. It is Mount Govardhana that gives grass to our cows, and it is the same mountain that holds the rain clouds and gives us water. So what we should worship is Govardhana, which directly supports our lives, and our cows.'\n\nThe cowherds accepted Krishna's words. With the food prepared for Indra's sacrifice they worshipped Govardhana, and honoured the cows and brahmins with food. Indra, seeing his worship stopped, grew angry and sent a great storm and rain to drown Gokula.\n\nKrishna lifted Govardhana with his little finger and held it like an umbrella. For seven days the cowherds and their cattle were safe beneath the mountain. Indra realised his mistake and bowed to Krishna. The Purana adds that Kamadhenu gave Krishna the title Govinda.\n\nIn this story a worship that directly protects creatures and nature is raised above a lavish sacrifice. It echoes the couplet's thought that compassion, which protects lives, is higher than a thousand offerings in the fire.\n\nIn our own festivals too, it is good to reduce show and give space to acts that directly help cows and the poor.","reflection_ta":"\u0b89\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bbf\u0bb4\u0bbe\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0b9f\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0baa\u0bcd \u0baa\u0b95\u0bc1\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bc8 \u0b87\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4 \u0b86\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc1 \u0b86\u0b9f\u0bae\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bb0\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b89\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1 \u0ba8\u0bc7\u0bb0\u0b9f\u0bbf \u0b89\u0ba4\u0bb5\u0bbf \u0ba8\u0bcb\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbf \u0bae\u0bbe\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bb2\u0bbe\u0bae\u0bcd?","reflection_en":"Which part of your own festivals or rituals could be shifted, this year, from display towards direct help for living beings?","image_prompt":"The young Krishna holding up Mount Govardhana on his little finger like an umbrella while cowherds, women and cows shelter beneath it from a storm, rain clouds and lightning above, warm palm-leaf manuscript and Tanjore-painting inspired style, 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\/461","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\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1654,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/461\/revisions\/1654"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adhigaram\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kural_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kural_section?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"literary_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_category?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"author_poet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author_poet?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"thinai_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thinai_type?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"work_title","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work_title?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}