How does Thiruvalluvar guide us to overcome trouble?

The correct answer is Giving trouble to the trouble.

Key Points

Thiruvalluvar's guide us to overcome trouble:

• I  f troubles come, laugh; there is nothing like that, to press upon and drive away sorrow
• They give sorrow to sorrow, who in sorrow do not suffer sorrow.
• Troubles will vanish (i.e., will be troubled) before the man who struggles against difficulties as a buffalo drawing a cart through the deep mire.
• The troubles of that man will be troubled who, however thickly they may come upon him, does not abandon his purpose.

Additional InformationThiruvalluvar:

• Tiruvalluvar also spelled Thiruvalluvar, also called Valluvar, a Tamil poet-saint known as the author of the Tirukkural (“Sacred Couplets”), considered a masterpiece of human thought.
• 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.
• Tamil orator and writer and father of the Pure Tamil movement, Maraimalai Adigal deduced 31 BC as the birth year of Valluvar, while Czech scholar in Indian literature and linguistics, Kamil Zvelebil inferred that Thiruvalluvar lived around 500 AD.

Thiruvalluvar Day:

• Thiruvalluvar Day was first celebrated on May 17 and 18 in 1935.
• In the present time, it is usually observed either on January 15 or 16 in Tamil Nadu and is a part of the Pongal celebrations.