Virtue, Wealth & Love: Kural

Virtue, Wealth & Love are the divisions of Thirikkural. Thirukkural is a treatise par excellence on the art of living .Thirukkural also known as the Kural is a classic Tamil sangam literature consisting of 1330 couplets or kurals. It was authored by Thiruvalluvar. Tiruvalluvar, the author, diagnoses the intricacies of human nature with such a penetrating insight, perfect mastery and consummate skill absorbing the most subtle concepts of modern psychology, that one is left wondering at his sweep and depth. His prescriptions, leavened by godliness, ethics, morality and humanness are sagacious and practical to the core. They cut across castes, creeds, climes and ages and have a freshness which makes one feel as if they are meant for the present times.