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Thirukkural 362

Chapter 37: அவா அறுத்தல் (Curbing of Desire) · Virtue

Kural 362

வேண்டுங்கால் வேண்டும் பிறவாமை மற்றது
வேண்டாமை வேண்ட வரும்.

Ventungaal Ventum Piravaamai Matradhu
Ventaamai Venta Varum

If desire you feel, freedom from changing birth require!'I' will come, if you desire to 'scape, set free from all desire

Meaning

If anything be desired, freedom from births should be desired; that (freedom from births) will be attained by desiring to be without desire.

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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