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Chapter 26: புலான்மறுத்தல்

On Virtue Ascetic Virtue Chapter 26

Kural 257

புலான்மறுத்தல்

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திருக்குறள்

உண்ணாமை வேண்டும் புலாஅல் பிறிதொன்றன் புண்ணது உணர்வார்ப் பெறின்.

Unnaamai Ventum Pulaaal Piridhondran Punnadhu Unarvaarp Perin

“From eating flesh men must abstain If they but feel the being's pain”

With other beings' ulcerous wounds their hunger they appease;If this they felt, desire to eat must surely cease

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Kural #257

The Mirror of Compassion

The story illustrates the Kural's teaching that if we recognize flesh as part of a living being's body (like a wound), we will naturally abstain from eating it. If men should come to know that flesh is nothing but the unclean ulcer of a body, let them abstain from eating it

8–14 yr 1 min