Ponnambalam concluded his 1966 address to the 21st session of the United Nations General Assembly by invoking this quote. J Abdul Kalam was the first one to quote this famous quote in European Union Historical Speech by Abdul Kalam in European Union and the another one is Narendra Modi who quoted it in 74th Session of the UN General Assembly.

Life's good comes not from others' gifts, nor ill,ĭeath's no new thing, nor do our bosoms thrill To us all towns are our own, everyone is our kin, The first musical form of Yaadhum Oore poem by composer Rajan Somasundaram was chosen as the theme song of 10th World Tamil Conference from the album Sandham: Symphony Meets Classical Tamil and was featured in Amazon's Top#10 International Music albums. That o'er huge boulders roaring seeks the plain This much-praised life of ours a fragile raftīorne down the waters of some mountain stream When grieved, we patient suffer for, we deem When joyous life seems like a luscious draught. (Adapted from translation by G.U.Pope, 1906) We marvel not at the greatness of the great Thus have we seen in visions of the wise! Tho' storms with lightning's flash from darkened skies.ĭescend, the raft goes on as fates ordain. Poongundranar rejected division of mankind into various categories and emphasised the universality of all humans.

The Tamil bards and intellectuals of the time of Poongundranar and those preceding his age considered that all humans, whatever their rank or station in life, were alike.

Yadhum oorey yavarum kelir