{"id":7427,"date":"2017-09-05T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T02:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/?p=7427"},"modified":"2017-08-01T16:42:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T13:42:09","slug":"tirukular-chapter-37-eradication-of-desire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/tirukural\/tirukular-chapter-37-eradication-of-desire-2","title":{"rendered":"Tirukular.Chapter 37: Eradication of Desire."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kural 361<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4898 alignleft\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/7b2ec3ff-f3b8-4e28-ac04-69656ed9e94a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"252\" \/>At all times and to all creatures,<br \/>\nthe seed of ceaseless births is desire.<br \/>\nKural 362<\/p>\n<p>If you must desire, desire freedom from birth.<br \/>\nThat will only come by desiring desirelessness.<br \/>\nKural 363<\/p>\n<p>Here no fortune is as dear as desirelessness;<br \/>\nand even there, nothing like it can be found.<br \/>\nKural 364<\/p>\n<p>Purity is but freedom from desire,<br \/>\nand that comes from thirsting after Truth.<br \/>\nKural 365<\/p>\n<p>They say only those who have renounced desire are renunciates.<br \/>\nOthers, though they have renounced all else, are not.<br \/>\nKural 366<\/p>\n<p>As it is desire, above all else, which deceives a man,<br \/>\nascetics rightfully dread it.<br \/>\nKural 367<\/p>\n<p>Desisting from all desire-driven deeds, a renouncer<br \/>\nfinds liberation approaching, just as he desired.<br \/>\nKural 368<\/p>\n<p>He who has no desires has no sorrow.<br \/>\nBut where desire exists, endless sorrows ensue.<br \/>\nKural 369<\/p>\n<p>When desire, sorrow&#8217;s sorrow, dies away,<br \/>\nundying bliss prevails here on Earth.<br \/>\nKural 370<\/p>\n<p>It is the nature of desire never to be fulfilled, but he who utterly<br \/>\ngives it up is eternally fulfilled at that very moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kural 361 At all times and to all creatures, the seed of ceaseless births is desire. Kural 362 If you must desire, desire freedom from birth. That will only come by desiring desirelessness. Kural 363 Here no fortune is as dear as desirelessness; and even there, nothing like it can be found. Kural 364 Purity is but freedom from desire, and that comes from thirsting after Truth. Kural 365 They say only those who have renounced desire are renunciates. Others, though they have renounced all else, are not. Kural 366 As it is desire, above all else, which deceives a <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tirukural","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}