Kural 35 - Righteousness

Righteous is not to yield towards jealousy, greed, anger and using harsh words.

Kural 28

The greatness of a person can be gauged by the wisdom/books he or she leaves behind.

Kural 12

Second chapter is about necessity of rain, titled as "Glory to rain" aka "the rain dance".

Second kural of this chapter is a nice tongue twister, with repetitive words. Many would recite this fast but may not know the meaning. Here it goes .. The rain involves in the process of generating food for all consumers; to add to that, the rain becomes food in the form of drinking water.

btw, this site has the English translation which is most apt and clear. Instead of doing a literal word to word translation, an attempt is made to convey the original message.

Kural 6

I used to read a page from my Kural book. Trying to make it a daily habit. (I remember my grandpa used to do that). Thought I can share 1 kural out of 10 each day. It would be a random one among the 10.
The thing I like in Kural is the abundant wisdom packed in a concise format. Apart from this, we will be able to pick up a subtle message or context out of it. It would be a new dimension to look upon and enjoy. Let me try to show such cases here.

The first chapter is devoted to the god. The sixth couplet talks about virtue and abstainism. May be interpreted as a definition of god, one who has control over the senses and with pure virtue; folks who adapt god's path will have a great life.
Another way to look at this kural is, one who controls the senses and leads a virtuous life will enjoy a prolonged joyous life.