Realising the Truth
Tap an underlined Tamil word to explore its sound, meaning, and use.
kāmam vekuḷi mayakka mivaimūṉṟa / ṉāmaṅ keṭakkeṭu nōy
“When lust and wrath and error's triple tyranny is o'er, / Their very names for aye extinct, then pain shall be no more.”
“As desire and anger and delusion leave a man, his ills also follow their pace and slowly melt away.”
When desire, anger, and delusion—the three—vanish so completely that even their names disappear, the karmic suffering produced by them also ends.
Ask about this Kural
Answers are drawn only from this Kural's sourced text and named commentary, and always cite what they used.
Choose a section
Parimelazhagar’s commentary
13th century · public domainParimelazhagar’s own words come first, unaltered. The plain reading follows below.
காமம் வெகுளி மயக்கம் இவை மூன்றன் நாமம் கெட= ஞானயோகங்களின் முதிர்ச்சியுடையார்க்கு விழைவு, வெறுப்பு, அவிச்சை என்னும் இக்குற்றங்கள் மூன்றனுடைய பெயருங்கூடக் கெடுதலான்; நோய்கெடும்= அவற்றின் காரியமாய வினைபபயன்கள் உளவாகா.
Source: Tamil Wikisource
When lust, anger, and delusion are so completely eradicated that even their names vanish from the mind, all resultant suffering is destroyed forever.