THANTHAI PERIYAR


Public Service

The number of thosewho do selfless public service and those who serve without expecting any return, should increase. Their sterling qualities should show the way to the people at large. Their life would be a model to show how man should conduct himself in public life.
Since birth and death are natural, people should conduct themselves in praiseworthy manner during their span of life. People do not praise anyone for nothing. We should so act as to be worthy of praise from others.
To do all the good to others that one wishes to we done form himself, is culture. Towards that end our work should be directed.
All that I request is that you should serve the people in order to contribute to reason and knowledge. If not, man will begin to walk on all fours, fergetting the real function of his fore limbs.
Those in public life should have more than fair measure of honesty, discipline, determination and spirit of service.



What we need today is growth of knowledge, in order to advance in every field. Knowledge should have its sway.


Man must hold his personal respect and dignity as precious as his life.

Students should not waste their scholl life, as it is very, very precious. Their mind should not be distracted by any event out side. Particularly, students should not participate in agitations.


Decide for Yourselves
Decide for yourselves as to what you should thing of those who say there is God, that He is a the Preserver of Justice an that He is the Protector of All, even after seeing that the practice of Untouchablity in the form of man being banned from human sight and contac, from walkinh into the streets, from entering the temples and drawing water from a tank, is rampant in the land and yet that land is spared from being razed by an earthquake, burnt by the fiery lava of a volcano, engulfed in a deluge from the ocean, submerged in the chasm of the earth, or fragemented by thunder-storm.

Self-Respect
We are fit to think of `Self-Respect’ only when the notion of superior ans inferior caste is banished from our land.
He who does not care for dignity, is no better than to a prostitute, however highly educated he is. His edcation will only endanger those that care for dignity.

Co-operation
The aim of co-operation is to serve and help others.
Who do spend wastefully, without thought. If we carry on our life through co-operative means, only one eighth of our present expenditure will be incurre. What remains can be helpful to seven more persons. If the conditions of our nation are not changed, it is certain that our life will soon come to ruin.

Socialism & Communism
What should be done, If everyone is to have enough food?
If none consumes more than what is needed, then, there will be enough food for all
Though my aim is to demad economic equality, I belive that coveting other people’s properties is an act that is worse than economic inequality.Therefore, It is the Government that should divide equitably by Law.

Women’s Rights
Man treats woman as his own property and not as being capable of feelings, like himself.The way man treats women is much worse than the way landlords treat servants and the high-caste treat the low-caste. These treat them so demeaningly only in situations mutally affecting them; but men treat cruelly and as slaves, from their birth till death.

Public Service
The number of those who do selfless public service and those who serve without expecting any return, should increase. Their sterling qualities should show the way to the people at large. Their life would be a model to show how man should conduct himself in public life.


Youth

The Youth are like children. They are captivated by the immediacy of a situation. They are not aware of what is to come in the future. They are attrracted by what is see. Wherever ther are drawn to them, and when these disappear, they simply forget them.
Mere enthusiasm, courage and a sense of sacrifice alone will not do in the youth. The youth can be of service only when they have capacity to discriminate the good from bad, the possible fromm the impossible, and to reflect and ponder dispassionately.
The period of youth is a dagerous and a highly inflammable one, and so it should be carefully safeguarded.
Young man should be bent upon putting an end to all the religious and superstitions and fraud.