Awareness Of The Truth (Section 36 Of Thirukural) Poem by Rajendran Muthiah

351. Birth loses its value and becomes unholy
when things unreal are taken for real out of folly.
352. Those who are free from delusion and have vision pure,
with darkness dispelling, ought to fall in rapture sure.
353. To those who keep a clear head and off the doubt here,
the heavenly abode is very near.
354. To those who have no perception of truth,
the gain of ruling over the senses is of no use forsooth.
355. It is wisdom to perceive the true nature of a thing,
to whatever kind it may cling.
356. Those who gain wisdom hither by learning deep,
the state of being free from birth, they'll reap.
357. If you study deep and truth obtain,
surely you have no birth on this earth again.
358. To be free from the folly of the cause of birth,
it is wisdom to perceive Him of the immortal worth.
359. Knowing Him and being free from selfish thoughts,
you keep off from disease which afflicts and rots.
360. When lust, wrath and delusion lose even their names in your life,
then perish all your evils and strife.