Thirukkural enjoys the rare privilege of being loved at home and admired aboard and has earned discriminating tributes from foreign scholars who have come into contact with the ancient language of Tamil and its literature. Thirukkural is a detailed and comprehensive book of virtue which guides us not by laying down the law, but by throwing challenge upon challenge to the conscience of man in the form of its many profoundly appealing observations on every moral issue. Indeed, it may otherwise be called 'the printed conscience'. Thirukkural stands with the distinction amongst those treasures of Eastern literature that go to make their hopes well-furnished. The greatness of the Thirkkural has been carefully compared to Saiva Siddhanta, the Bible and the New Testament with critical studies. Saiva Siddhanta, a scientific philosophy of practical knowledge and its three-fold doctrine (pasu, pathy, pasam), have been compared with the Kural, the Bible and the New Testament with the critical treatment. The Bible and the New Testament: These two Judas and Christian books have been very carefully applied to the Thirukkural and the doctrine of Saiva Siddhanta. The Bible elaborates the history of the Hebrews, Moses, the invention of God's Theory. The profound mystery of Jesus's personal life had been revealed by Paul as per God's direction. Christianity as a bar to world's progress has been elaborately discussed in this book.
