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Thirukkural 348

Chapter 35: துறவு (Renunciation) · Virtue

Kural 348

தலைப்பட்டார் தீரத் துறந்தார் மயங்கி
வலைப்பட்டார் மற்றை யவர்.

Thalaippattaar Theerath Thurandhaar Mayangi
Valaippattaar Matrai Yavar

Who thoroughly 'renounce' on highest height are set; The rest bewildered, lie entangled in the net

Meaning

Those who have entirely renounced (all things and all desire) have obtained (absorption into God); all others wander in confusion, entangled in the net of (many) births.

Plain English meaning from the 19th-century prose translation by W. H. Drew and John Lazarus. The verse above is G. U. Pope's translation (1886).

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