{"id":553,"date":"2013-07-13T01:28:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=553"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:28:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:28:50","slug":"66-from-tamil-the-kural-vol-08-translations-volume-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/08-translations-volume-08\/66-from-tamil-the-kural-vol-08-translations-volume-08","title":{"rendered":"-66_From Tamil – The Kural.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\n       
\nIII <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n


\n         FROM
\nTAMIL<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t
\n\t\tThe Kural*<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n1. A<\/b>lpha of all letters the first,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Of
\nthe worlds the original Godhead the beginning.<\/span><\/p>\n

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2. What fruit is by learning, if thou adore not<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>The beautiful feet of the Master of luminous
\nwisdom?<\/span><\/p>\n

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3. When man has reached the majestic feet of him whose walk is on flowers,
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Long upon earth is his
\nliving.<\/span><\/p>\n

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4. Not to the feet arriving of the one with whom none can compare, <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Hard from the heart to
\ndislodge is its sorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n

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5. Not to the feet of the Seer, to the sea of righteousness coming,
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n    <\/span>Hard to swim is this different ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n

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6. When man has come to the feet of him who has neither want nor<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>unwanting, Nowhere for
\nhim is affliction.<\/span><\/p>\n

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7. Night of our stumbling twixt virtue and sin not for him, is <\/span><\/p>\n

\n    <\/span>The
\nsoul in the glorious day of God’s reality singing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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8. In the truth of his acts who has cast out the objects five from
\nthe gates<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>of the senses Straight if
\nthou stand, long shall be thy fullness of living.<\/span><\/p>\n

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9. Some are who cross the giant ocean of birth; but he shall, not
\ncross it <\/span><\/p>\n

\n    <\/span>Who has touched not  the feet of the Godhead.<\/span><\/p>\n

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10. Lo, in a sense unillumined no virtue is, vainly is lifted<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The head that fell not at
\nthe feet of the eightfold in Power, the Godhead.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\n* A celebrated work in Tamil by Poet
\nTiruvalluvar.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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