Rajendran Muthiah Poems

1001. Dead is he who heaps up riches in his house but enjoys none.
Nothing will result of it.
1002. Thinking wealth is the cause of all, if a man is stingy,
Inglorious birth will come to his folly.
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1151. Tell me if there is no separation.
Tell on your quick return to those who survive then.
1152. Joyous once his looks were! But now,
The fear of parting engulfs while embracing him.
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961. Reject acts, though essential and admirable,
if they mar your family’s greatness.
962. They who want fame and honour, don’t do acts
which are unbecoming to their families.
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1071. The scoundrels bear a strong likeness to good people.
In no species, we’ve seen such close resemblance.
1072. The base are better than those who know their own good;
as they have a carefree mind for good and bad.
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871. Don’t harbor the ill-natured hatred
even for a joke.
872. Feel envy on warriors who plough with bows in wars.
But don’t envy the wise who plough with words.
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141. The wise of this world know of virtue and of goods
And so have no folly of coveting another’s wife.
142. Of all the sinners those who desire another’s wife
And lurk in his door are the greater fools.
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411. The wealth of all wealth is listening by ears.
That wealth is the chief of all wealth.
412. When there is no food for the ears to listen
Spare a little to the stomach.
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181. Though he speaks not words of virtue and commits sins,
It is good if his neighbours say of him ‘not-backbiting

182. It isn’t worse to spoil virtue and do evil than to
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121. You see, his mind doesn’t think of me and confines to himself.
Why then, O my mind, don’t you be all my own?
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Buddhism says, 'Death follows rebirth'.
The Lankan President will be reborn
as the worm wriggling in the dirt
and his soldiers who raped womenfolk of the Tamils
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