Thirukkural 369 in English
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Tamil original
இன்பம் இடையறா தீண்டும் அவாவென்னும்
துன்பத்துள் துன்பங் கெடின்.
Transliteration
Inpam Itaiyaraa Theentum Avaavennum
Thunpaththul Thunpang Ketin
Modern English
“When destructive craving, the deepest source of sorrow, is removed, steady joy can remain.”
Modern Interpretation
When destructive craving, the deepest source of sorrow, is removed, steady joy can remain. For example, someone who stops comparing their life with everyone else’s can enjoy ordinary moments without feeling behind.
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Modern Plain English
When destructive craving, the deepest source of sorrow, is removed, steady joy can remain.
Poetic Couplet (Bharati)
Desire, the woe of woes destroy Joy of joys here you enjoy
G.U. Pope Translation
When dies away desire, that woe of woesEv'n here the soul unceasing rapture knows
Classical Meaning (Drew & Lazarus)
Even while in this body, joy will never depart (from the mind, in which) desire, that sorrow of sorrows, has been destroyed
Tamil commentary
ஆசை எனப்படும் பெருந்துன்பம் இல்லாது போனால், இன்பம் இடைவிடாமல் வரும்.
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