Kural 11 · வான்நின்று உலகம் வழங்கி வருதலால்
Because the sky stands above and goes on giving to the world season after season, the rain itself should be understood as the nectar that keeps life alive.
Because the sky stands above and goes on giving to the world season after season, the rain itself should be understood as the nectar that keeps life alive.
Rain produces good food for those who eat, and it also becomes food itself for them as the water they drink.
If the clouds deceive and the rain fails, then even in this wide world encircled by the sea, hunger will stand within the living and torment them.
When the wealth that the cloud gives has dwindled, farmers will not even take up the plough to till their fields.
The one that ruins and the one that stands by the ruined and lifts them up again: both are the rain.
Only if a drop falls from the sky can one see even the head of a green blade of grass on the ground; otherwise it is rare to see it.
If the cloud draws up the sea's water and does not give it back as rain, even the vast ocean will lose its natural richness.
If the sky goes dry, then here on earth even the gods will have no festivals and no regular worship offered to them.
If the sky does not give its rain, neither charity nor austerity will remain in this wide world.
If the world cannot stand without water, then for everyone, no matter who, right conduct cannot stand without rain.