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Thirukkural 363

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

Kural 363

வேண்டாமை அன்ன விழுச்செல்வம் ஈண்டில்லை
ஆண்டும் அஃதொப்பது இல்.

Ventaamai Anna Vizhuchchelvam Eentillai
Aantum Aqdhoppadhu Il

No glorious wealth is here like freedom from desire; To bliss like this not even there can soul aspire

Meaning

There is in this world no excellence equal to freedom from desire; and even in that world, there is nothing like it.

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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