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Thirukkural 349

Chapter 35: துறவு (Renunciation) · Virtue

Kural 349

பற்றற்ற கண்ணே பிறப்பறுக்கும் மற்று
நிலையாமை காணப் படும்.

Patratra Kanne Pirapparukkum Matru
Nilaiyaamai Kaanap Patum

When that which clings falls off, severed is being's tie; All else will then be seen as instability

Meaning

At the moment in which desire has been abandoned, (other) births will be cut off; when that has not been done, instability will be seen.

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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