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Chapter 3: நீத்தார் பெருமை

On Virtue Prologue Chapter 3

Kural 21

நீத்தார் பெருமை

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ஒழுக்கத்து நீத்தார் பெருமை விழுப்பத்து வேண்டும் பனுவல் துணிவு.

Ozhukkaththu Neeththaar Perumai Vizhuppaththu Ventum Panuval Thunivu

“No merit can be held so high As theirs who sense and self deny”

The settled rule of every code requires, as highest good,Their greatness who, renouncing all, true to their rule have stood

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Kural #21

The Shadow of Peace

The story illustrates the Kural's teaching that the ultimate purpose of wisdom is to praise those who have transcended worldly desires to live a life of pure conduct. The end and aim of all treatise is to extol beyond all other excellence, the greatness of those who, while abiding in the rule of conduct peculiar to their state, have abandoned all desire

8–14 yr 2 min