தன்னைத்தான் காதல னாயின் எனைத்தொன்றும்
துன்னற்க தீவினைப் பால். - 209
when one loves himself he cannot think or do harm to others.
WHEN THE SHOE FITS, THE FOOT IS FORGOTTEN; WHEN THE BELT FITS, THE BELLY IS FORGOTTEN; AND WHEN THE HEART IS RIGHT, ‘FOR’ AND ‘AGAINST’ ARE FORGOTTEN.
Iyya Comments:
Amaithikku vaanga
last words of the Buddha, “Act without inattention.”
when u talk to the other person in front of you, avara arachi pannadheenga, avar pesaradhe mattum kellunga 
Brotherhood- as said by buddha, all are god’s children and are to be considered as brother.
யான் எனது என்னும் செருக்கு அறுப்பான்
வானோர்க்கு உயர்ந்த உலகம் புகும்.
naan panrengaradha vitrunga, ungallukku vendiyadhu ellam varum.
It is indeed remarkable that similar, if not identical, concepts and ideas figure in the works of great persons, though they may be separated by big distances and many generations! Doubtless, great minds think alike and it is only natural that such similarities exist, transcending peoples and countries!
In his great work, Richard Bach, portrays, symbolically, the story of a seagull, Jonathan, who divines that there is more to living than fighting for food or mere existence. He is outlawed by the flock, which refuses to listen to his zestful and sincere expostulations on the thrill, joy and benefits of high speed and high altitude flying.
Dismayed but not put off, Jonathan continues his practice, learning more and more, each day. Even from the material point of view, he is fulfilled. He is enabled to find the “rare and tasty fish” that schooled ten feet below the ocean and also “to ride the high winds far inland, to dine there on delicate insects”.
In the process, Jonathan learns the sublime lesson that the path to real fulfilment and excellence is often desolate and daunting, to start with and is chosen to be followed by only the fortunate few.
Richard Bach sums up this concept in these lines “Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom, fear and anger are the reasons that a gull’s life is so short, and with these gone from his thought, he lived a long, fine life indeed”.
In a strikingly similar strain, Bhagawad Gita also conceives how true liberation (“long fine life”) is obtained by release of misplaced attachment, fear and anger [2,56; 5,28]. Indeed, it is this morbid attachment to false values and the mirages cast by wrong perceptions, which entangles man into an existence, bereft of true glories, thrills and joys of life.
Such existence, verily, is boredom, as conceived of by Bach and the working of the observation (Walden: Economy) of Henry Thoreau, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation”. It was rightly said that though many have abundant means to live, they don’t have any meaning to live for!
Though fear and anger are separately mentioned both by Richard Bach and Bhagawad Gita, these naturally follow from, and are inherent in, the first named affliction, boredom, which stems from misplaced attachment.
Freed of such boredom, fear and anger, the aspirant traverses the path to that “long, fine life” or that “stability and liberation” as conceived of, respectively, by Richard Bach and Bhagawad Gita.
Source: The Economic Times