Tirukkural-On Virtue-On Love Or Affection-Kural 73

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Anboadu iyaindha valakkenba aaruyirkku
Enboadu iyaindha todarpu.

There can be life only when the body has soul in it; Even so, life without affection is no life at all.

Rajaji's comments on this Kural are thought-provoking. He says that human affection is possible only if the soul is clothed in flesh and blood, and it is worthwhile for the sake of the experience of such affection, to suffer the miseries of life on earth.

That is precisely the basis of the Christian belief in the incarnation or avatar of Christ, the Redeemer, who suffered and died as a man so that mankind may live and prosper.

Manakudavar and Pazhaya Urai are of the view that it is because a soul had to its credit some loving charity in a previous birth, it was now again been given a human existence.