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கொல்லாமை
Kurals 321–330 of the Thirukkural, in the book of Virtue (அறத்துப்பால்).
அறவினை யாதெனின் கொல்லாமை கோறல்
பிறவினை எல்லாந் தரும்.
What is the work of virtue? 'Not to kill';
For 'killing' leads to every work of ill.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: Not taking life is the heart of all goodness; killing opens the door to every wrong.
Open in the appபகுத்துண்டு பல்லுயிர் ஓம்புதல் நூலோர்
தொகுத்தவற்றுள் எல்லாந் தலை.
Let those that need partake your meal; guard every-thing that lives;
This the chief and sum of lore that hoarded wisdom gives.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: Share your food and protect all living things: that is the best of everything the wise have taught.
Open in the appஒன்றாக நல்லது கொல்லாமை மற்றதன்
பின்சாரப் பொய்யாமை நன்று.
Alone, first of good things, is 'not to slay';
The second is, no untrue word to say.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: Not killing is the greatest good of all; next comes not lying.
Open in the appநல்லாறு எனப்படுவது யாதெனின் யாதொன்றும்
கொல்லாமை சூழும் நெறி.
You ask, What is the good and perfect way?
'Tis path of him who studies nought to slay.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: The good path is the one that thinks about how to avoid killing any creature.
Open in the appநிலைஅஞ்சி நீத்தாருள் எல்லாம் கொலைஅஞ்சிக்
கொல்லாமை சூழ்வான் தலை.
Of those who 'being' dread, and all renounce, the chief are they,
Who dreading crime of slaughter, study nought to slay.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: Of everyone who gives things up, the greatest is the one who fears to take a life.
Open in the appகொல்லாமை மேற்கொண் டொழுகுவான் வாழ்நாள்மேல்
செல்லாது உயிருண்ணுங் கூற்று.
Ev'n death that life devours, their happy days shall spare,
Who law, 'Thou shalt not kill', uphold with reverent care.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: Death itself holds back from someone who has resolved never to kill.
Open in the appதன்னுயிர் நீப்பினும் செய்யற்க தான்பிறிது
இன்னுயிர் நீக்கும் வினை.
Though thine own life for that spared life the price must pay,
Take not from aught that lives gift of sweet life away.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: Never take another's life, even to save your own.
Open in the appநன்றாகும் ஆக்கம் பெரிதெனினும் சான்றோர்க்குக்
கொன்றாகும் ஆக்கங் கடை.
Though great the gain of good should seem, the wise
Will any gain by slaughter won despise.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: Even if killing promised great rewards, the wise would see those rewards as shameful.
Open in the appகொலைவினைய ராகிய மாக்கள் புலைவினையர்
புன்மை தெரிவா ரகத்து.
Whose trade is 'killing', always vile they show,
To minds of them who what is vileness know.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: To those who understand meanness, people who kill are the meanest of all.
Open in the appஉயிர் உடம்பின் நீக்கியார் என்ப செயிர் உடம்பின்
செல்லாத்தீ வாழ்க்கை யவர்.
Who lead a loathed life in bodies sorely pained,
Are men, the wise declare, by guilt of slaughter stained.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: The wise say that much suffering in life traces back to harm once done to other living beings.
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