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The Holy Kural
Written over two millenia ago by Saint Tiruvalluvar,
translated under the guidance of Gurudeva, Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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Verse 361
At all times and to all creatures
The seed of ceaseless births is desire.
Verse 362
If you must desire, desire freedom from birth.
That will only come by desiring desirelessness.
Verse 363
Here no fortune is as dear as desirelessness;
And even there nothing like it can be found.
Verse 364
Purity is but freedom from desire,
And that is achieved by desiring to know Truth.
Verse 365
They say only those who have renounced desire are renunciates.
Others do not share the same attainment
Verse 366
As it is desire, above all else, which deceives a man,
Ascetics dread it judiciously.
Verse 367
When a renunciate ceases the deeds of desire,
Deliverance from life and death will come when he desires.
Verse 368
He who has no desires has no sorrow, but where there is desire
There will be ever-increasing sorrows.
Verse 369
When desire, sorrow's sorrow, dies away,
Undying bliss prevails even here on earth.
Verse 370
It is the nature of desire never to be fulfilled, but he who utterly
Gives it up realizes eternal fulfillment at that very moment.
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