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We hear much counsel from the Orient bidding us relinquish career, fortune, and family. Is the pauper to be an aspirant's ideal type? Even Tiruvalluvar, a man whom South Indians revere as one of their greatest saints and poets, in his most celebrated classic, The Kural, rated poverty not only as painful but as a great evil. He abhorred begging.

-- Notebooks Category 2: Overview of Practices Involved > Chapter 7 : Discipline Desires > # 128