Published 2020-11-27
Keywords
- Vethathiri Maharishi,
- Morality,
- Life,
- Human
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Abstract
From the beginning of the Human race to the present day there has been need to guide the lives of huaman beings. The main reason for this is that man suffers from material attraction and perceptual giddiness. So in every age Scholars, Sages, and Saints have appeared and guided human life to be better and happier. Vethathiri Maharishi, the great philosopher who emerged in the twentieth century in that way and led man to move in the state of knowledge and to live in peace and pleasure. Vethathri Maharishi has given lot of books to the Tamil literature world based on the lofty idea that world peace created through individual human peace. Among them the Gnanak kalanjiyam is a notable book which Published in two volumes, the book contains 1854 songs. This article examines the virtues mentioned by vethathiri maharishi under the rhetoric of virtue in his book as the main virtues that every individual man should follow in his life as the development Gnanak kalanjiyam of the individual who is the foundation of the society as the cause of social and national development.
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