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Thirukkural 351

Chapter 36: மெய்யுணர்தல் (Truth-Consciousness) · Virtue

Kural 351

பொருளல்ல வற்றைப் பொருளென்று உணரும்
மருளானாம் மாணாப் பிறப்பு.

Porulalla Vatraip Porulendru Unarum
Marulaanaam Maanaap Pirappu

Of things devoid of truth as real things men deem;-Cause of degraded birth the fond delusive dream

Meaning

Inglorious births are produced by the confusion (of mind) which considers those things to be real which are not real.

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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