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Thirukkural 356

Chapter 36: மெய்யுணர்தல் (Truth-Consciousness) · Virtue

Kural 356

கற்றீண்டு மெய்ப்பொருள் கண்டார் தலைப்படுவர்
மற்றீண்டு வாரா நெறி.

Katreentu Meypporul Kantaar Thalaippatuvar
Matreentu Vaaraa Neri

Who learn, and here the knowledge of the true obtain, Shall find the path that hither cometh not again

Meaning

They, who in this birth have learned to know the True Being, enter the road which returns not into this world.

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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