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Answer» Answer: Tiruvalluvar’s couplets in the Tirukkural are highly aphoristic: “Adversity is nothing sinful, but / laziness is a DISGRACE”; “Wine cheers only when it is quaffed, but love / intoxicates at mere sight.” Despite Tiruvalluvar’s reasonable tone, many of his IDEAS were revolutionary. He dismissed the caste system: “One is not great because of one’s birth in a NOBLE family; one is not low because of one’s low birth.” The poet maintained that goodness is its own reward and should not be regarded as a mere means to a comfortable afterlife. Chennai bus drivers have adopted the poet as their patron saint; his likeness is found ATTACHED above the windshields in the vehicles of the city’s official Tiruvalluvar Bus COMPANY. |
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