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Chapter 34: நிலையாமை

On Virtue Ascetic Virtue Chapter 34

Kural 331

நிலையாமை

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திருக்குறள்

நில்லாத வற்றை நிலையின என்றுணரும் புல்லறி வாண்மை கடை.

Nillaadha Vatrai Nilaiyina Endrunarum Pullari Vaanmai Katai

“The worst of follies it is told The fleeting as lasting to hold”

Lowest and meanest lore, that bids men trust secure,In things that pass away, as things that shall endure

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Kural #331

The Butterfly's Flight

The story illustrates how trying to hold onto something temporary (the butterfly) as if it were permanent leads to sadness, reflecting the Kural's warning against ignorance. That ignorance which considers those things to be stable which are not so, is dishonourable (to the wise)

8–14 yr 2 min