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Thirukkural 369

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

Kural 369

இன்பம் இடையறா தீண்டும் அவாவென்னும்
துன்பத்துள் துன்பங் கெடின்.

Inpam Itaiyaraa Theentum Avaavennum
Thunpaththul Thunpang Ketin

When dies away desire, that woe of woesEv'n here the soul unceasing rapture knows

Meaning

Even while in this body, joy will never depart (from the mind, in which) desire, that sorrow of sorrows, has been destroyed.

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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