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Chapter 34: நிலையாமை

On Virtue Ascetic Virtue Chapter 34

Kural 338

நிலையாமை

Position 8/10

திருக்குறள்

குடம்பை தனித்துஒழியப் புள்பறந் தற்றே உடம்பொடு உயிரிடை நட்பு.

Kutampai Thaniththu Ozhiyap Pulparan Thatre Utampotu Uyiritai Natpu

“The soul from body any day Like bird from egg-shell flies away”

Birds fly away, and leave the nest deserted bare;Such is the short-lived friendship soul and body share

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Kural #338

The Bird and the Empty Shell

The story uses the metaphor of a bird leaving its egg to illustrate the Kural's teaching on the temporary nature of the soul's attachment to the body. The love of the soul to the body is like (the love of) a bird to its egg which it flies away from and leaves empty

8–14 yr 2 min