Thirukkural - Income, Expense & Wealth Generation

There are great words written about income, expenses, wealth generation and administration in Thirukkural by Mr. Thiruvalluvar. Though many guess about the age of Thirukkural, i would like to bring to everyone's notice that Thirukkural was estimated to be written about 2300 years ago. There are 1330 kural's or couplets in total. These are categorized into 133 chapters. Each chapters contains 10 couplets. I would like to bring 2 couplet's (kural's) to your notice which represents the income, expenses, wealth generation and administration.

Now, let's see 478th couplet (kural),

Aakaaru Alavitti Thaayinung Ketillai

Pokaaru Akalaak Katai

This means, no matter how much is the income (it can even be very small), if the expense is within the income or if the expense is very less then there is no issue and we are on the right track. As we have discussed in many of our blog's, it is foremost important to concentrate on the expenses in wealth generation. This was told 2300 years ago and this holds very good for all situations even now.

Now, let's see 512th couplet (kural),

Vaari Perukki Valampatuthu Utravai

Aaraaivaan Seyka Vinai

The meaning of this kural is, the person is considered as great administrator or a great planner who has the capability of enlarging the income generating options, increase the resources and most importantly who has the capability to identify the interruptions or unexpected issues and eliminating those.

These days people are restricting or self satisfying or staying well in their comfort zone if they get a stable standard one income every month. Though this is the first step to run any family successfully, a person should definitely find multiple options of generating income. This can also be considered as a backup plan. This can also be a passive income. This can also be an investing option such as mutual funds or stock equities or bonds or real estates.

Then a person need to increase the resources needed to generate multiple incomes. If a person needs to employ someone or need to buy any hardware or software to run any business, that needs to be done simultaneously. Then the last and important step is to build the capability of identifying the issues which occur unexpectedly and learn the skill to eliminate those. These are the important skills to be developed for being a great administrator which was told 2300 years ago by great Thiruvalluvar in Thirukkural.

I wish we gain more knowledge and enhance our skills and capabilities to be a great administrator and become wealthy by following the above kurals. 

Have a Great Day

B G Nareshkumar