VALUE EDUCATION

UNIT 1 :THIRUKKURAL
PRESENTED BY:V,SWESTHI VARSHA
• Work on Ethics and Morality.
• Path to lead a virtuous life.
• Consists of 1330 short
couplets.
• 3 Books – Virtue
• - Wealth
• - Love
Kural: 629: Hopefulness in Trouble
• Mid joys he yields not heart to joys' control
Mid sorrows, sorrow cannot touch his soul
• Explanation
He does not suffer sorrow, in sorrow who does
not look for pleasure in pleasure.
• Tamil Transliteration
Inpaththul Inpam Vizhaiyaadhaan Thunpaththul
Thunpam Urudhal Ilan.
 Kural:46: Domestic life
• English Couplet 46:
If man in active household life a virtuous soul
retain,
What fruit from other modes of virtue can he gain
Couplet Explanation:
What will he who lives virtuously in the domestic
state gain by going into the other, (ascetic) state ?
Kural:131:Possession of Decorrum
• English Couplet 131:‘
Decorum' gives especial excellence; with greater
care
'Decorum' should men guard than life, which all
men share
Couplet Explanation:
Propriety of conduct leads to eminence, it should
therefore be preserved more carefully than life
 Kural:226: Giving
English Couplet 226:
Let man relieve the wasting hunger men endure;
For treasure gained thus finds he treasure-house
secure.
Couplet Explanation:
The removal of the killing hunger of the poor is
the place for one to lay up his wealth.
 Kural:45: Family
English Couplet 45:
If love and virtue in the household reign,
This is of life the perfect grace and gain

Couplet Explanation:
If the married life possess love and virtue, these
will be both its duty and reward