Thirukkural 341 in English
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Tamil original
யாதனின் யாதனின் நீங்கியான் நோதல்
அதனின் அதனின் இலன்.
Transliteration
Yaadhanin Yaadhanin Neengiyaan Nodhal
Adhanin Adhanin Ilan
Modern English
“Whatever attachment a person gives up, that particular attachment can no longer cause the same pain.”
Modern Interpretation
Whatever attachment a person gives up, that particular attachment can no longer cause the same pain. Letting go removes the grip of the thing we were clinging to. For example, releasing the need for everyone's approval makes criticism much easier to bear.
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Modern Plain English
Whatever attachment a person gives up, that particular attachment can no longer cause the same pain.
Poetic Couplet (Bharati)
From what from what a man is free From that, from that his torments flee
G.U. Pope Translation
From whatever, aye, whatever, man gets free,From what, aye, from that, no more of pain hath he
Classical Meaning (Drew & Lazarus)
Whatever thing, a man has renounced, by that thing; he cannot suffer pain
Tamil commentary
எந்த எந்தப் பொருள்களின் மேல் விருப்பம் இல்லாதவனாய் விலகுகிறானோ அவன் அந்த அந்த பொருள்களால் துன்பப்படமாட்டான்.
Chapter 35
More from Renunciation
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From what from what a man is free From that, from that his torments flee
Kural 342Give up all to gain the True And endless joys shall hence seek you
Kural 343Curb the senses five and renounce The carving desires all at once
Kural 344To have nothing is law of vows Having the least deludes and snares
Kural 345Why add to bonds while this body Is too much for saints to be birth-free
Kural 346Who curbs the pride of I and mine Gets a world rare for gods to gain
Kural 347Grief clings on and on to those Who cling to bonds without release
Kural 348Who renounce all are free from care Others suffer delusive snare
Kural 349Bondage cut off, rebirth is off The world then seems instable stuff
Kural 350Bind Thyself to the unbound one That binding breaks all bonds anon