Tirukkural Chapter 38 - Couplets 1,2,3 Poem by Rajaram Ramachandran

திருக்குறள் -TIRUKKURAL
அதிகாரம் 38 - ஊழ்
CHAPTER 38 - FATE.
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38/01. ஆகூழால் தோன்றும் அசைவின்மை; கைப்பொருள்
போகூழால் தோன்றும் மடி.

38/01. Akoozhaal thondrum asaivinmai; kaipporull
Pokuzhaal thondrum madi.

38/01. If one gets a creative type of fate, he will be strong in his trials.
If it is destructive type of fate, it will end in laziness.
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Kamal: When one can't find reason for his suffering
He will say it is his fate.

Vimal: Brahma, as fate, has written
When and what should happen?
So, nothing is in our hands,
As we go by His commands.

If you take a mango seed,
It's pre-written inside the seed,
That how long it'll live
How many fruits it'll give?

So, there is no end to this fate.
Blindly people believe it, of late,
When they don't find proper reason
For someone's death all of a sudden.

They'll say that he's ill fated to die
Otherwise there is no reason why
In this young age he disappears
When he suffered no disease?
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38/02. பேதைப் படுக்கும் இழவூழ்; அறிவகற்றும்
ஆகல்ஊழ் உற்றக் கடை.

38/02. Pedhaip padukkum izhavoozh; arrvagatrrum
Aagaluzh utrrak kadai.

38/02. If the fate is the reason for losing one's wealth, it'll make him a fool.
On the other hand, if he gains wealth, it'll make him wise.
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Kamal: For everything we shift the blame to fate
What is our share in it?

Vimal: Man wants to shift his blame
On someone else without shame,
And conveniently fate has come
As a great relief to him.

To spell the very word fate,
Some modern people hate,
Saying nothing is like that,
It's a false excuse to shift it.

There is an opposite reaction
For every action done,
And fate is the reaction
For what he had done.

In the previous birth
Had he done good deeds,
In the present birth
He would have enjoyed.
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38/03. நுண்ணிய நூல்பல கற்பினும் மற்றும்தன்
உண்மை அறிவே மிகும்.

38/03. Nunnyia noolpala karrppinum matrrumthan
Unnmai arrivaemigum.

38/03. Even if one learns higher studies,
His natural intelligence only will shine, because of his fate.
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Kamal: One highly educated gets low income
While uneducated gets high income; why it's so?

Vimal: It's his fate, people say,
As no other reason one can say,
An educated is born in a poor family,
While an uneducated in rich family.

Some people attribute it
To the irony of fate
To be born rich or poor,
And it's not in one's power.

விதியை மதியால்
வெல்லலாம்
With one's intelligence
Fate can be won.

This proverb beats
Out the word fate,
So, fate can be won
If one uses his brain.
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