Scorning the lowly is worse than praising the mighty, hence we don't do that.We aren’t impressed by the mighty, even more, we don’t scorn the lowly.Since we know from words of wise men that our precious lives follow their destined course like the rafts following the course of a mighty river, clattering over rocks after a downpour from lightning slashed skies,.Neither we rejoice at life as a pleasure, nor we distress it as a misery.Suffering and relief happen not because of others.Good or evil happen not because of others.Every town is our home town every man is our kinsman.This poem talks about universal thinking, faith, philosophy of life, scientific knowledge and relationship between elders and youngsters of ancient Tamils. This poem is distinguished by the fact that it sings about the truths explored by the sages. The 192 nd Purananuru poem is categorized under Podhuvial thinai and Porunmozhi kanchi. Kaniyan Pungundranar's two songs are compiled as Natrinai (Poem no. Govindan mentions that he was wrongly quoted as Kanibun Kundran ' in some of the texts. Hence he was known as Kaniyan Pungundran. The inscription at Mahibalanpatti temple refers to this place as ' Pungundra Nattu Pungundram'. He was born at Mahibalanpatti in Tirupattur, Sivaganga district. ' Kaniyan' refers to Astrology as he was into Astrology. (force field for a particle performing random walk.The name Kaniyan Pungundranar was derived from his profession and his place. This stream restricts our Random walk within certain limits. the stream might be research area or maybe a job or a role of a parent. There is also the stream which we are in, eg. All of our deeds are random in some sense with some bias towards certain deeds. The duration of these cycles might be dependent on a lot of factors.ĥ.In life we perform Random walks. I am also of the belief that our moods follow cycles, probably due to some bio-chemical process. Death is natural, it is a part/end of this life.Ĥ.It is good to be moderately happy and moderately sad than to have great mood swings or emotional roller coasters. Situations can be actuating joy or sadness but really our brain is what causes them. The bio-chemical processes are also inside our heads and is not due to the other person’s fault. (this can be due to external factors and also due to bio-chemical processes inside our head. Depression is due to unhelpful interpretation of some events. Different culture suits different people, one has the freedom to choose what one wants to follow from any culture.Ģ.Please go through the Centre for Clinical Intervention‘s website or ask a psychologist on why people get depressed. The differences between races are only skin deep. The principles governing us are the same though there might be differences in cultural/social norms. We are humans and most of us desire for similar things. More importantly, we should not look down upon people who are lesser than us.ġ. We need not be amazed by greatness of the great people.The lightning strikes over the darkened sky and water rushes through as streams over boulders carrying the raft of our life.One need not be too ecstatic about the joy of life when in grief, suffer it patiently.Hurt and joy are not given to us by others pain and relief are given to us by ourselves.Every town is our own and so are the people.You can criticize or recommend other derivations of these results I present below. Here are the results of poet’s derivation, I will offer my hints of derivation of these results. As many of us know, the result of a derivation is like a goalpost, we have to go through the analysis in careful detail to see the beauty of the result. It is important to derive the relation for ourselves. If you wish to view the poem as I do, it is nothing but some philosophical results which the poet has reached. Here I offer my interpretation of the poem(it is a product of my present analysis, caveat emptor). However, I find that this conclusion had been reached by a thinker at least 1500 years before I did, when it wasn’t easy to travel, as brilliant. And I reached a conclusion that I can claim my rights to the heritage of the world and not just my country’s (even though it is more nostalgic). to 300 A.D.)Īfter my first year of stay in the U.S., I began questioning which culture is better – the western or Tamil culture. This is a famous excerpt from Purananoor, anthology of poems during the third Sangam period of Tamil Nadu.(somewhere around 300 B.C. The title means, every place is yours and all are your people.
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