Friendship

What is friendship? The definition of friendship is not just laughing and gossiping, it is caring and sharing. You should always be willing to care for your friend and share whatever you have, with your friend. That is the highest level of friendship. If friendship does not fit into this caring/sharing formula, it is not friendship.

Tiruvalluvar says, “Udukkan izhandavan kai poalae aangae idukkan kazhaivathaam natpu”

Just as your hand automatically adjusts your dress if it goes out of place, so does a friend smoothen out all your worries, rescues you from distress. You should mitigate the suffering of the other person, you should alleviate his pain; that is real friendship.

Whether you garland or strike, a Gnani neither rejoices nor grieves. Neither joy nor sorrow affects him