Tiruvalluvar Works at Midnight

The midnight vigilee caught these shots of Tiruvalluvar writing away while the aadheenam slept. His stone image comes alive at night and seemed to be lit up and calling out his truths.

The captions above are excerpted from section 3, The Greatness of Renunciates.

Behold those who have weighed the dual nature of things and followed the renunciates way. Their greatness illumines the world. KURAL 23

Such is the power of those who subdue the five senses that even Indra sovereign of spacious Heavens celestials suffered their curse. KURAL 25

It is impossible to endure even for a second the wrath of those who have scaled and stand upon the mountain called virtue. KURAL 29

Pious men are called the priestly ones for they are clothed in robes of compassion for all life. KURAL 30

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