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Chapter 34: நிலையாமை

On Virtue Ascetic Virtue Chapter 34

Kural 340

நிலையாமை

Position 10/10

திருக்குறள்

புக்கில் அமைந்தின்று கொல்லோ உடம்பினுள் துச்சில் இருந்த உயிர்க்கு.

Pukkil Amaindhindru Kollo Utampinul Thuchchil Irundha Uyirkku

“The life berthed in this body shows A fixed home it never knows”

The soul in fragile shed as lodger courts repose:-Is it because no home's conclusive rest it knows

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Kural #340

The True Home

The story illustrates the Kural's concept that the soul's presence in the body is temporary, much like a traveler seeking a permanent home. It seems as if the soul, which takes a temporary shelter in a body, had not attained a home

8–14 yr 2 min