← Thirukkural
Chapter 01
Adhigaram
Chapter 01
verses 1–10
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0001
All letters begin with 'A'; so too the world begins with God. You cannot build understandi…
0002
What profit comes from learning, if the wise man refuses to honor the day of good fortune?
0003
Those who touch the feet of the one who walked on flowers will endure long upon this earth…
0004
To those who approach one free from desire and revulsion, suffering comes not, in any circ…
0005
Darkness and the twin debts of karma do not cling to the divine. They do not touch those w…
0006
Those who master the five senses and hold fast to the path of truth live long. / Whoever s…
0007
Without the shelter of one incomparable—a refuge found in virtue alone—the mind cannot be …
0008
Without clinging to the feet of the virtuous one—the ocean of righteousness—it is impossib…
0009
Though the sense-organs function in the body, they lack worth if the head does not bow to …
0010
Those who swim the vast ocean of birth reach shore; those who never approach the feet of t…