Tirukural

CHAPTER 36

Knowledge of Truth

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The muddled mentality that mistakes the unreal for the Real is the genesis of woeful births.§

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For those of undimmed perception, free from delusion, darkness departs and rapture rushes in.§

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Heaven is nearer than Earth for those who dispel all doubt and know the Truth.§

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All knowledge acquired through the five senses is worthless to those without knowledge of Truth.§

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In everything of every kind whatsoever, wisdom perceives Truth in that thing.§

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Those who find the highest Reality here and now follow a path which never comes back to this world.§

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Having thought profoundly and realized fully That which is, one need never think of being born again.§

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Wisdom is that rare realization of Perfection’s True Being, which banishes forever the folly of rebirth.§

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He who clings to life’s true support clings not to lesser things. Sorrows, which destroy by clinging, no longer cling to him.§

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Desire, delusion and indignation—annihilation of these three terms is the termination of torment.§