The following lines should count as the greatest discovery of the Sumerian beginnings of Tamil culture and how the basic principles enunciated as far back as c. 3000 BC continue to sustain it.
These lines may also account for the amazing continuity of the Tamil culture and why it has been so productive with a capacity to survive despite many calamities.
When a culture is TRUTH oriented and the society as a whole organized as for LEARNING the truths it seems to survive somehow.
The most important line is:
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nig.nam kal-kal-en nig-e me-kal-kal ( You appreciate something, it appreciates you)
Ta. nikaznam kalkalen nigavee mey kalkal ( If you study all happenings, you also study great truths)
Ta. நிகழ்நம் கல்கல்-இன் நிகவே மெய் கல்கல்
This line can pass for good Tamil even now and even a rudimentary knowledge of Tamil is sufficient to understand it.
The words ‘kal” and “me' (> mey : truth) are still in use and amazingly in the same sense as in this NeRi. The ‘nig.nam' is nikaz.nam, that which happens, the events around and Suruppak says that if one studies the happenings around then one would also learn great truths!
You can see this is the philosophy in the Toklkaappiyam, TirukkuRal, Tirumantiram, CivanjanBotam and all other major milestones in Tamil literature. The NATURE must be studied for the truths are there in the world and it is only by such studies the great truths, the metaphysical truths can also be learned.
Tamil culture right from its inception has been a culture of Natural Metaphysics, where deep reflections begin with seeking to understand the natural and in that also discovering the hidden and concealed realities.
But why should the Nature be studied and the truths there understood? The brilliant Suruppak also attends to these related questions.
Positively speaking it helps one to live a life of happiness and joy.
Dr Loganathan Krishnan @ Ullaganar
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