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Whom does Valluvar call a fool, though he is learned and scholarly?

Whom does Valluvar call a fool, though he is learned and scholarly? Correct Answer One who does not get along with the society 

The correct answer is ​One who does not get along with society.

Key Points

Thoughts of Valluvar:

  • One who does not get along with society is a fool though he is learned and scholarly.
  • Those who know not how to act agreeably to society, though they have learned many things, are still ignorant.
  • There are no greater fools than he who, though he has read and understood (a great deal) and even taught it to others, does not walk according to his own teaching.
  • He says:
    • "The fool will merit hell in one brief life on earth, In which he entering sinks through sevenfold round of birth". Meaning: A fool can procure in a single birth a hell into which he may enter and suffer through all the seven births.
    • When fool some task attempts with uninstructed pains, It fails; nor that alone, himself he binds with chains. Meaning: If the fool, who knows not how to act undertakes a work, he will (certainly) fail. (But) is it all? He will even adorn himself with fetters.


Additional Information 

Thiruvalluvar:

  • Tiruvalluvar also spelled Thiruvalluvar, also called Valluvar, (flourished c. 1st century BC or 6th century AD, India), Tamil poet-saint known as the author of the Tirukkural (“Sacred Couplets”), considered a masterpiece of human thought.
  • Thirukkural contains 1330 couplets (kurals) that are divided into 133 sections of 10 couplets each. The text is divided into three parts with teachings on dharma, artha, and kama (virtue, wealth, and love).
  • Little is known about the life of Tiruvalluvar except that he is believed to have lived in Mylapore (now part of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) with his wife, Vasuki. 

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