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Their use lies not just in seeing but in feeling another's distress through what is seen and in acting accordingly. 'Ulapol mugaththu' means they seem to be there, that is, in truth they serve no purpose and exist only for appearance. Eyes painted in a picture are like this: they exist but do not see.\n\nCommentators give two readings of 'alavinaal'. Some take it as showing it in the measure suited to each person's standing and ability. Others take it as according to the degree of acquaintance, in proportion to the relationship. Both convey that kannottam has a measure and that each should show it as far as he can. Even one without great wealth can give a kind word and a kind look.\n\nIn today's world the meaning is plain. The officer who passes an elderly person in a queue pretending not to see, the motorists who go past an injured man on the road, and we who avoid the face of a neighbour asking for help may take this verse as a mirror. Valluvar gently points out that eyes without sight of the heart are not eyes at all.\n\nSo it is good to think a little each day about what our eyes looked at and what they refused to look at.\n\nTo have eyes is nature's gift; to fill them with kindness is the gift of our own effort. 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Muthusamy, who worked in the temple administration, stood as supervisor, arranging the line. His eyes swept over the crowd. He saw everything but felt nothing. All he wanted was order.\n\nIn the middle of the queue stood an old woman past eighty. Her legs trembled; in one hand she held a walking stick and in the other a wilted string of jasmine. After waiting three hours she clearly could stand no longer. Those near her told Muthusamy, 'Sir, the old lady is exhausted.' He looked at her, yet like one not seeing, said, 'Everyone is in the same line; please wait,' and moved on.\n\nThen a sixteen-year-old girl, Meena, who had come with a school friend, took the old woman's hand and seated her on the ledge of a nearby mandapam. She gave her water from her own bottle. 'Grandmother, I will stand in your place in the line. Rest a little; I will call you when your turn comes,' she said. Many in the queue bowed their heads at the sight.\n\nMuthusamy watched it from a distance. He realised he had not looked at the old woman's face for even a minute. Two hours later when she stood before the sanctum, his eyes were wet. When the darshan ended he went to her and said, 'Mother, forgive me.' The old woman smiled.\n\nFrom the next day Muthusamy arranged a separate path in the queue for the elderly and the sick. 'I saw everyone but looked at no one,' he used to tell his friends in later years.","reflection_ta":"\u0b87\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1 \u0ba8\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4 \u0bae\u0bc1\u0b95\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0ba9\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bc8 \u0b89\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0bae\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0bcb\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bc7\u0ba9\u0bcd?","reflection_en":"Of the faces I saw today, how many did I truly look at?","image_prompt":"A large South Indian temple festival queue with an old woman resting on a mandapam ledge, a teenage girl giving her water, a temple supervisor watching from a distance, gopuram and lamps, 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\/776","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\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1759,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/776\/revisions\/1759"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adhigaram\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kural_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kural_section?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"literary_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_category?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"author_poet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author_poet?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"thinai_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thinai_type?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"work_title","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work_title?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}