Thirukkural 847 in English
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Tamil original
அருமறை சோரும் அறிவிலான் செய்யும்
பெருமிறை தானே தனக்கு.
Transliteration
Arumarai Sorum Arivilaan Seyyum
Perumirai Thaane Thanakku
Modern English
“A person who ignores valuable advice causes great harm to themselves.”
Modern Interpretation
A person who ignores valuable advice causes great harm to themselves. If a mentor warns you about a scam and you refuse to listen, the loss that follows is largely your own making.
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Modern Plain English
A person who ignores valuable advice causes great harm to themselves.
Poetic Couplet (Bharati)
The fool that slights sacred counsels Upon himself great harm entails
G.U. Pope Translation
From out his soul who lets the mystic teachings die,Entails upon himself abiding misery
Classical Meaning (Drew & Lazarus)
The fool who neglects precious counsel does, of his own accord, a great injury to himself
Tamil commentary
அறிவற்றவன் அரிய புத்திமதியையும் ஏற்றுக் கொள்ளான்; அதனால் அவன் தனக்குத் தானே பெரும் துன்பத்தைச் செய்து கொள்வான்.
Chapter 85
More from Ignorance
புல்லறிவாண்மை
Want of wisdom is want of wants Want of aught else the world nev'r counts
Kural 842When fool bestows with glee a gift It comes but by getter's merit
Kural 843The self-torments of fools exceed Ev'n tortures of their foes indeed
Kural 844Stupidity is vanity That cries \"We have sagacity\"
Kural 845Feigning knowledge that one has not Leads to doubt ev'n that he has got
Kural 846Fools their nakedness conceal And yet their glaring faults reveal
Kural 847The fool that slights sacred counsels Upon himself great harm entails
Kural 848He listens not nor himself knows Plague is his life until it goes
Kural 849Sans Self-sight in vain one opens Sight To the blind who bet their sight as right
Kural 850To people's \"Yes\" who proffer \"No\" Deemed as ghouls on earth they go