Tirukural A daily chapter from South Indian saint Tiruvalluvar's Tirukural, 'Holy Couplets.

Chapter 3: The Greatness of Renunciates Kural 21 The Scriptures exalt above every other good the greatness of virtuous renunciates. Kural 22 Attempting to speak of the renunciate's magnitude is like numbering all the human multitudes who have ever died. Kural 23 Behold those who have weighed the dual nature of things and followed the renunciate's way. Their greatness illumines the world. Kural 24 He whose firm will, wisdom's goading hook, controls his five senses is a seed that will flourish in the fields of Heaven. Kural 25 Such is the power of those who subdue the five senses, that even Indra, sovereign of spacious Heaven's celestials, suffered their curse. Kural 26 The magnificent ones are they who can dispatch the most difficult tasks; the insignificant ones are they who cannot. Kural 27 Touch, taste, sight, smell and hearing are the senses-- he who controls these five magically controls the world. Kural 28 Their own subtle sayings reveal to the world the greatness of men whose words prove prophetic. Kural 29 It is impossible to endure, even for a second, the wrath of those who have scaled and stand upon the mountain called virtue. Kural 30 Pious men are called the priestly ones, for they are clothed in robes of compassion for all life