Rajendran Muthiah Poems

40. While being born, the lives ignore the pleas to die.
While dying, the lives are heedless of the pleas to live.
If the goddess of wealth is graceful, wealth increases.
If She is graceless, your wealth is gone.
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37. Denying alms to the beggars, they hang their face.
The benevolent rich are the stick to climb for the beggars.
Fearlessness to a huge army is the best support to a king.
Refusal to eat meat is the real support to human lives.
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43. When shame leaves, sensibility shrinks. On reining in
the five senses, the spell of evil forces ceases.
No water spoils the harvests of the green crops.
No care in the welfare of the friend, ruins friendship.
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49. Even tasty food gives troubles to the sick body.
The fools get entangled in troubles by their own words.
Evil deeds of the past birth grieve us in the present.
An unchecked king is ruined by his own forces.
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58. Eating without killing a being makes the food tasty.
The people hate a man with a scowling face.
Forgetting the good deeds of others will make one lose support.
If one gives bye to anger, people adore one as the pleasing man.
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No use of the word ‘Sanskrit'or‘Samskrit'[Levelled tongue]
we did find in ancient Tamil works.
No use of the word ‘Brahmin' in Tamil folk lore
or in the palm leaf manuscripts of the past.
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She is bestowed with beauteous nature's gifts.
He waits in the street longing to see her lovely looks.
He tries to accost her but stops as she raises her brows.
Seeing his alarming looks, a smile sparkles on her lips.
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64. The rich man gets what he wants.
The seeds sprout only when there is water.
If Thirumagal[goddess of wealth] looks nice, wealth swells.
If she looks with scorn, wealth abates.
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When he met her, a smile hovered on her lips.
"Have you had fought in the warfield? ".
"Soon I will be sailing in the naval ships! ",
he said curtly and to her grasp he did yield.
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When he was a youth
He'd go upstairs
two steps at a time
and come downstairs
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