Thirukkural 367 in English
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Tamil original
அவாவினை ஆற்ற அறுப்பின் தவாவினை
தான்வேண்டு மாற்றான் வரும்.
Transliteration
Avaavinai Aatra Aruppin Thavaavinai
Thaanventu Maatraan Varum
Modern English
“When excessive desire is cut away, a person can choose the actions that protect lasting freedom and well-being.”
Modern Interpretation
When excessive desire is cut away, a person can choose the actions that protect lasting freedom and well-being. For example, refusing a dishonest shortcut can open the way to a career built on trust rather than fear.
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Modern Plain English
When excessive desire is cut away, a person can choose the actions that protect lasting freedom and well-being.
Poetic Couplet (Bharati)
Destroy desire; deliverance Comes as much as you aspire hence
G.U. Pope Translation
Who thoroughly rids his life of passion-prompted deed,Deeds of unfailing worth shall do, which, as he plans, succeed
Classical Meaning (Drew & Lazarus)
If a man thoroughly cut off all desire, the deeds, which confer immortality, will come to him, in the path in which he seeks them
Tamil commentary
ஆசையை முழுவதுமாக அறுத்து ஒழித்து விட்டால், தான் விரும்பும் வண்ணமே அழியாமல் வாழ்வதற்கான செயல் உண்டாகும்.
Chapter 37
More from Curbing of Desire
அவா அறுத்தல்
Desire to all, always is seed From which ceaseless births proceed
Kural 362If long thou must, long for non-birth It comes by longing no more for earth
Kural 363No such wealth is here and there As peerless wealth of non-desire
Kural 364To nothing crave is purity That is the fruit of verity
Kural 365The free are those who desire not The rest not free in bonds are caught
Kural 366Dread desire; Virtue is there To every soul desire is snare!
Kural 367Destroy desire; deliverance Comes as much as you aspire hence
Kural 368Desire extinct no sorrow-taints Grief comes on grief where it pretends
Kural 369Desire, the woe of woes destroy Joy of joys here you enjoy
Kural 370Off with desire insatiate You gain the native blissful state