Tirukural – Chapter 37
Chapter 37: Eradication of Desire
Verse 364
We see here a woman kneeling and sipping water which has touched the feet of her Lord. In her devotion she has turned her back on all kinds wealth and riches which lie nearby, ignored.
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Weaver’s Wisdom
Verse 361
At all times and to all creatures,
the seed of ceaseless births is desire.
Verse 362
If you must desire, desire freedom from birth.
That will only come by desiring desirelessness.
Verse 363
Here no fortune is as dear as desirelessness;
and even there, nothing like it can be found.
Verse 364
Purity is but freedom from desire,
and that comes from thirsting after Truth.
Verse 365
They say only those who have renounced desire are renunciates.
Others, though they have renounced all else, are not.
Verse 366
As it is desire, above all else, which deceives a man,
ascetics rightfully dread it.
Verse 367
Desisting from all desire-driven deeds, a renouncer
finds liberation approaching, just as he desired.
Verse 368
He who has no desires has no sorrow.
But where desire exists, endless sorrows ensue.
Verse 369
When desire, sorrow’s sorrow, dies away,
undying bliss prevails here on Earth.
Verse 370
It is the nature of desire never to be fulfilled, but he who utterly
gives it up is eternally fulfilled at that very moment.
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