A son's help to his father could be only to make the people to ask "What penance the father did to beget him as the son".
If the society has to say that, son must have possibly done all the good things. Taking care of parents, maintaining good name with the society by doing all good works, adopting good principles, performing worthy works, living a good family life and nurturing good kids, living with care for the good name, doing only the good things praised by others, living tall and larger etc. all will be under that.
Valluvar even does not say that it as a mere duty by the son to the father, instead he says that it as the 'help' a son can offer to his father. He said so as only 'Help' so that the thanks returning or performing duty by the son should not be a simple or mere ritual. Such help is going to come back to the son only through his father, as goodwill for the family. That is the hidden message. Such goodwill will long last for him and his offspring.
Is it possible to give the thanks for the parental raisings? The parent’s contributions such as birth given, rising all will ever stay as unfulfilled debts. As we had seen earlier, each one's life is because of their prior deeds. Therefore one can do only these kinds of fewer helps and also benefit from it once again for self. This is the message of this kural. Settling account dues to the parents is possible only by another life wherein if at all one becomes the parent to them. That is the reason in our culture they keep the parent's names to their offspring, at least to get the benefit of calling their own children with their parents names. In children upbringing and naming them after parents they found the way to thank the parents. It is appropriate for the parents to teach this noble way to their offspring to continue this legacy. It all the same reasons that the practice of worshipping and remembering the forefathers and grandparents exists.
Therefore to get goodwill to the father, to the self, to the offspring and to the family, only way is to get a good name for self as a wise, a noble and a good citizen. Those who do not know that you are watched by the world at large understand it through this. |
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