Dr Rajaram is on the right of Dr Abdul Kalam.
The whole of human aspiration is epitomized in this immortal book, a book for all ages.‟ K M Munshi, the founder of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and a great man of letters, has said: „Thirukkural is a treatise par excellance on the art of living.‟ Photo caption: Dr Abdul Kalam receiving a copy of Dr M Rajaram‟s book of Thirukkural English translation at a function at New Delhi on 1. Sri Aurobindo has said: „Thirukkural is gnomic poetry, the greatest in planned consumption and force of execution ever written in this kind.‟ Rajaji says: „It is a Gospel of Love and a Code of Soul-Luminous life. Leo Tolstoy has openly admitted that he has taken the concept of nonviolence from a German translation of the Kural. There is none who has given such a treasure of wisdom like him.‟ Mahatma Gandhi has said that he came to know about Thirukkural from Leo Tolstoy. The maxims of Valluvar have touched my soul. Dr Albert Schwaitzer says: „There hardly exists in the literature of the world a collection of Maxims in which we find so much of wisdom.‟ Mahatma Gandhi calls it: „A textbook of indispensable authority on moral life. Poetic English Translation of Thirukkural-2 The dynamics of Thirukkural has been richly complemented by various scholars from all parts of the world.
