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Thirukkural 359

Chapter 36: மெய்யுணர்தல் (Truth-Consciousness) · Virtue

Kural 359

சார்புணர்ந்து சார்பு கெடஒழுகின் மற்றழித்துச்
சார்தரா சார்தரு நோய்.

Saarpunarndhu Saarpu Ketaozhukin Matrazhiththuch
Chaardharaa Saardharu Noi

The true 'support' who knows- rejects 'supports' he sought before-Sorrow that clings all destroys, shall cling to him no more

Meaning

He who so lives as to know Him who is the support of all things and abandon all desire, will be freed from the evils which would otherwise cleave to him and destroy (his efforts after absorption).

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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