Thirukural - a couplet contains
every thing the society desperately needs and because of this
unique greatness, it has been translated to many world languages.
Our Government also, on their part,
included Thirukural in the school curriculum. Children who
are taught kural gets largely benefited when they grow up in their
lives. Of course! One should
follow it to reap the benefits. We have a living example for this
kind and that makes him very speacial
 Rangarajan,43
- a poor textile unit labour in Tiruppur, shot into fame by mastering
the art of memorizing all the 1330 kurals and that rightly
fetched him a prefix Thirukural to his name. Rangarajan lives
in Ammapalayam, Tiruppur with wife and two children. Despite all
the odds, he has some how managed his schooling. After some years
of wandering he finally settled at Tiruppur with a temporary job
as an ordinary labour in a banian factory.
Well, you will get goose bumps if
you hear the origin of his achievements.
It all started some two
years back. One of his sons had a kural recitation competition
in his school. So, he bought a new kural book. After reading out
a few chapters to his son, he casually flicked through the pages
and suddenly he developed a liking for the kural. He was so
fascinated by the POWER of kural. You know, it was a tale
of love at first sight (hey folks, not with dames but kurals).
He started memorizing 10 kurals a day. To his own surprise, within
6 months he was thorough with all the 1330 kurals.
We are living in an
era, where the most important family values and sentiments are
getting shattered to the extent that we are not even bothered
to heed to the elders' advises. But, here Thirukural has played
an imperative part in changing the face of Rangarajan's from rustic
to cultured. Now, one can definitely not deny that Thirukural
holds sway.
And that's the real
command & authority of kural over its followers.
Yes! Rangarajan shed
all the bad habits after his acquaintance with kurals. He
is totally a reformed man now. He turns veggie. He even becomes
a non smoker and teetotaler. Some of the important things
in his achievements:
- He was well over 40 [normally an
age with one's mind becomes dud for learning new things] when
he started mugging up kurals [ we can now say, Aindhil valayavittalum
Imbathil valayum]
- Ability to recall the kural
by its serial numbers, starting or end words and chapters as
well.
- He also knows Abirami Andathi,
Siva Puranam, Kanda Guru Kavasam, Shanmuga Kavasam & Kandar
Sasti Kavasam.
He dearly likes to
spread the message of kural to all the villages projecting
him self as an example. But his living in penury state simply
prevents him from undertaking such noble things.
He has been honoured
by DYFI - Tiruppur unit, Valarum Ezhuthlar Mandram, Vanpugazhl
Valluvan Arakattalai and Arivu Thirukoil.
His immediate task is
settling in a good job for the survival and then only he can carry
out his dreams to the reality.
Nilacharal heartily
wishes him Good Luck in all his ventures!
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