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Kural No. 340 · Virtue (Aram) · Ch 34

Instability

நிலையாமை
Original Kural · ஓலைச்சுவடி
புக்கில் அமைந்தின்று கொல்லோ உடம்பினுள்
துச்சில் இருந்த உயிர்க்கு.

Pukkil Amaindhindru Kollo Utampinul / Thuchchil Irundha Uyirkku

Classical English couplet — “The soul in fragile shed as lodger courts repose:-Is it because no home's conclusive rest it knows”

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Simple English Meaning

What it says in plain words

“It seems as if the soul, which takes a temporary shelter in a body, had not attained a home

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எளிய தமிழ் விளக்கம் · Simple Tamil Interpretation

The classical Tamil reading

(நோய்களுக்கு இடமாகிய) உடம்பில் ஒரு மூலையில் குடியிருந்த உயிர்க்கு, நிலையாகப் புகுந்திருக்கும் வீடு இதுவரையில் அமையவில்லையோ.

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ஆழமான தமிழ் விளக்கம் · Deeper Tamil Commentary

An expanded Tamil interpretation

உடலுடன் தங்கியுள்ள உயிருக்கு அதனைப் பிரிந்தால் வேறு புகலிடம் கிடையாது

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