Abstaining from Flesh
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ceyiriṉ talaippirinta kāṭciyār uṇṇār / uyiriṉ talaippirinta ūṉ
“Whose souls the vision pure and passionless perceive, / Eat not the bodies men of life bereave.”
“Behold the men who have escaped from the bonds of illusion and ignorance: they eat not the flesh from which life hath flown out.”
Those whose discernment is freed from the fault of delusion do not eat flesh separated from life.
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Parimelazhagar’s commentary
13th century · public domainParimelazhagar’s own words come first, unaltered. The plain reading follows below.
செயிரின் தலைப்பிரிந்த காட்சியார்= மயக்கம் ஆகிய குற்றத்தின் நீங்கிய அறிவினை உடையார்; உயிரின் தலைப்பிரிந்த ஊன் உண்ணார்= ஓர் உயிரின் நீங்கி வந்த ஊனை உண்ணார்.
Source: Tamil Wikisource
Those whose spiritual discernment is cleansed of ignorance and moral delusion will never consume the flesh that has been violently severed from a living body.