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A big chariot with strong wheels, which runs swiftly on land, will not move at all on the sea. A ship that defeats the waves will not move an inch on dry ground. Each is excellent in its own element, but useless once taken out of it.\n\nValluvar does not belittle strength here. He praises the chariot's wheels as 'kaalval', strong-footed, and honours the ship as 'naavaay'. Their fault is not in themselves; the fault is in the place where they are made to run. So the worth of a tool or an army depends not only on its ability but on the field where it works.\n\nOn the battlefield this matters greatly. A chariot force wins on the plain and loses on a mountain path or in a marsh. A navy wins at sea and is of no use in a desert. So a leader must fight where his force's nature suits, or draw the enemy's force into a field that does not suit it.\n\nIn our own lives the same holds. A student who excels at mathematics may stumble at painting, and that is no flaw in him. One who chooses the field that is rightly his wins easily. 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They could uproot mountains and flatten forests. But before them lay the shoreless sea, its waves roaring. Their strength of shoulder seemed useless there.\n\nRama called a council. Vibhishana advised, \"Ask Varuna, lord of the sea, for a path.\" For three days Rama waited on a bed of darbha grass on the shore. When Varuna did not appear, Rama grew angry and took up his bow. Then Varuna came and said, \"In your army is Nala, a master builder and son of Vishwakarma. Stones he touches do not sink. Build a bridge with him; I shall bear it.\"\n\nRama knew that an army which wins on land cannot simply go over the sea. So he chose to make the sea into land for his army. The vanaras brought trees and boulders. Stones were placed on the water by Nala's hand and floated. In five days a bridge a hundred yojanas long was complete.\n\nAcross that bridge the whole vanara army reached Lanka as if walking on the ground. Rama, who knew that a chariot does not run on the sea, made a field in the sea itself where his host could fight. Because he prepared a field suited to his army's nature, it fought with full strength.\n\nThe episode shows that strength alone is not enough; it needs a field suited to its working. That is why the memory of the bridge is still honoured at Rameswaram.","reflection_ta":"\u0ba8\u0bc0\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc7 \u0b95\u0b9f\u0bb2\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bc7\u0bb0\u0bc8 \u0b93\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f \u0bae\u0bc1\u0baf\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0bc0\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd? \u0b85\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0b9f\u0bb2\u0bc8\u0baa\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bbe\u0ba4\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bbe\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bbe\u0bb2\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0ba4\u0bc1?","reflection_en":"Where are you trying to run a chariot on the sea, and what bridge could turn that water into a road?","image_prompt":"Rama's army of vanaras building the stone bridge across the sea to Lanka, Nala placing floating stones, waves and sea creatures, Rama standing on the shore with his bow, scene from the Valmiki Ramayana, 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\/698","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\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2069,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/698\/revisions\/2069"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adhigaram\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kural_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kural_section?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"literary_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_category?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"author_poet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author_poet?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"thinai_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thinai_type?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"work_title","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work_title?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}