திருக்குறள்
Two lines.
A whole life.
Read all 1,330 couplets of the Tirukkural, see how its ideas connect, and bring your own questions to it.
The Kural is about the life you are already living.
Each couplet is two lines long. Together its 133 chapters take up what fills an ordinary life: how to speak, whom to trust, how to earn and spend, how to bear a wrong, what to do with desire.
காலத்தி னாற்செய்த நன்றி சிறிதெனினும்ஞாலத்தின் மாணப் பெரிது.
“A good deed done at the right time, though small, is far greater than the world.”
What are you facing?
Each opens a walk through what the Kural says about it.
The couplet most people know
அகர முதல எழுத்தெல்லாம் ஆதிபகவன் முதற்றே உலகு.
agara muḍala eḻuṭṭellām āḍipagavaṉ muḍaṟṟē ulagu.
“As all letters begin with A, the world begins with the First Lord.”
From: Chapter 1, Praising God
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Explore lays it all out: every couplet, idea, state of mind and life situation on one map, with the threads between them.
What is on the map
- Chapters
- 133
- Couplets
- 1,330
- Ideas
- 117
- States of mind
- 129
- Life situations
- 58
- Characters
- 4
6,862 connections between them: which couplet defines an idea, which state heals another, which couplets answer which situations.
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Three parts, 133 chapters, ten couplets in each.
Read it in order, with the Tamil, its romanisation, a plain reading and parimēlaḻagar’s commentary for every couplet.
All 133
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RighteousnessWealthDesire
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Your first five minutes
A short lesson on Kural 100: the setting, the couplet, what it means in plain words, and an example from everyday life.
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Follow one thing to the next
Couplets 96, 31 and 757 lead from a sweet word to compassion. Lineage lays chains like this out step by step.
- Kind Speech
- Righteousness
- Wealth
- Compassion
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