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Coimbatore, Jan 7 (PTI) Limiting Tirukural, authored by Tamil Saint-Poet Tiruvalluvar, to a book of ethics and morality reduces its messages to a list of "dos and dont"s or advice, Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi said on Friday.
Tirukural was more than that and its couplets were pithy and pregnant with deep meanings which cannot be understood without spirituality, Ravi said.
Tirukural is a collection of 1,330 couplets that dwell upon different aspects of life and is accorded high respect in the Tamil society.
"Unfortunately, due to compulsion and ideology, Tirukural is getting reduced to a book of ethics and morality.
Political correctness or the present ideology should not limit what the book has to offer...
only then would Tirukural"s glory continue," he said after inaugurating the World Tirukural Conference, organised at Sri Krishna Arts and Science College here, by Kural Malai Sangam, an organization working for the promotion of the Tirukural.