Thirukkural And Mental Health: A Conceptual Guidance To A Healthy Lifestyle

Abstract

The current conceptual paper focuses on the mind and its relation to well-being from a conceptual perspective. Over the last decade, mental health issues in countries are in an distressing rate. Mental health defines as a productive condition in which internal stability allows the person to utilize their capacity to match society's values via basic cognitive and social skills, feeling expression, empathy, and flexibility. Thirukkural is known as a highly ethical text enlightening Tamil literature delivered by man to man more than 2000 years ago. For every human the mind is the basis of life, death, growth, decay, fame, fortune, feeling and passion. There are differences in opinion as to where mind resides, but there are no differences of opinion that the mind is the basis of thought, speech, and action. If the mind is pure, all activities of life will be pure, and act of morality will take place accordingly. This paper explains an overview of the mental framework using Tamil ancient scriptural text through a qualitative methodology of hermeneutics theory interpretation. Finding involves in-depth inquiry and analysis of Thirukkural, its practice and the literature in terms of its context and content for interpretation with regards to mind in a holistic manner. As a conclusion, future directions in integrative research are proposed based on the scriptural text of Thirukkural.