An couplet from Thirukural.

Overcoming foes.

Kadhala khadalaariyamai uuikirpin
yedhila yedhilaar nool............................440--Porutpaal.  Politics.

Meaning:

Enjoy in private the things desired and got, if foes become aware of your desire  before ,they will block its fulfillment.


Application to my state of affairs.---This i precisely what is happening to me .Valluvar wrote his centuries back when there were no bugs, miniature cameras, salts and jaw momets [that is reading thoughts that unconsciously move the jaws] reading gadgets.Oh ! What wouldn't i give up for that age of innocence! The lack of science and development or rather putting into evil use such technological developments.
Amazing how human nature , that of very base nature the kind of which is exhibited in all its splendour in most of those in the business of ruling and managing people has not kept pace or match the strides of scientific development but has remained same  at the time Valluvar made this piece of observation maybe gone a notch or two lower , but sheathed in subtlety and ominous silence ,the thin veneer of sophistication barely concealing the base or rather basic instinct of 'self' first in the guise of public good!