Thirukurral:
The following quote was given by Thiruvalluvar, a poet-saint who lived 2000 years ago in Tamilnadu, south of India. A great scholar, he wrote a book called 'Thirukurral' containing more than 3000 short verses called 'Kurrals' but only 1330 had been recovered. He is referred as "Poyyamozhi Pulavar", meaning the poet whose words do not fail.
A kurral is a 2 line verse, with 4 words in first line and 3 words in second line, giving complete meaning of a poem.
Now, the quote rather Kurral.
Kurral:
"Katradhanaal aaya payanyenkol vaalarrivan
nattrall thozhar yenin"
Meaning:
If you don't worship the lord's feet, who is dwelling as pure knowledge, whatever you learned is useless.
Description:
You may learn a thousand subjects and may be a great guru or pundit in all the fields, you may be a great linguist well versed in all the languages, you may proclaim yourself a great rationalist, but if you fail to understand and worship god, who is residing as pure knowledge, then whatever you learned is useless. That is not real learning.
Well, Im proud of valluvar's contribution to the world. Read all ur blogs n they are interesting. Thought we cud share a lot. Im too is much interested in knowing the real meaning of some Hindu customs and I also hate some which has no meaning attached to it. Like "Cin muthra" - the posture many of the hindu gods have their hands. (3 fingers straight with index finger touching the thumb). Each finger symbolises certain things. Like
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Ring finger - desire towards gold n money ( we usually wear rings)
Middle finger - desire towards land n wealth (we use this finger in graha pravasam)
Index finger - symbolises any human or living being. (we use this to point out any person)
thumb - god (without this finger the hand is useless)
So the so called "cin muthra" tells us that we humans(index finger) should shun away the desires and reach the feet of God(thumb) n hence the posture
Thanks Zealot, that was enlightening. I would love to hear from you and share info with you.
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