Flesh

Created by Jijith Nadumuri at 11 Oct 2011 12:54 and updated at 11 Oct 2011 12:54

TIRUKKURAL NOUN

tkl.1.2.09 In Flesh by fire inflamed, nature may thoroughly heal the sore;
tkl.1.2.20 Prosperity to the body of Fame, resulting in Poverty to the body of Flesh and the stability to the former arising from the death of the latter, are achievable only by the wise.
tkl.1.3.02 1.3.2 The Renunciation of Flesh
tkl.1.3.02 Who other creatures Flesh consumes to feed his own?
tkl.1.3.02 How can he be possessed of Kindness, who to increase his own Flesh, eats the Flesh of other creatures.
tkl.1.3.02 No use of grace have they with Flesh who hunger sate.
tkl.1.3.02 As those possess no property who do not take care of it, so those possess no Kindness who feed on Flesh.
tkl.1.3.02 To eat dead Flesh can never worthy end fulfil.
tkl.1.3.02 If it be asked what is Kindness and what its opposite, the answer would be preservation and destruction of life; and therefore it is not right to feed on the Flesh (obtained by taking away life).
tkl.1.3.02 If Flesh you eat not, life s abodes unharmed remain;
tkl.1.3.02 Not to eat Flesh contributes to the continuance of life; therefore if a man eat Flesh, Hell will not open its mouth (to let him escape out, after he has once fallen in).
tkl.1.3.02 Who d kill and sell, I pray, if none came there the Flesh to buy?
tkl.1.3.02 If the World does not destroy life for the purpose of eating, then no one would sell Flesh for the sake of Money.
tkl.1.3.02 If men should come to know that Flesh is nothing but the unclean ulcer of a body, let them abstain from eating it.
tkl.1.3.02 The wise, who have freed themselves from mental delusion, will not eat the Flesh which has been severed from an Animal.
tkl.1.3.02 Better the Flesh of slaughtered beings not to share.
tkl.1.3.02 Not to kill and eat (the Flesh of) an Animal, is better than the pouring forth of ghee etc., in a Thousand sacrifices.
tkl.1.3.02 Who slays nought, Flesh rejects his feet before
tkl.1.3.02 All creatures will join their hands together, and worship him who has never taken away life, nor eaten Flesh.
tkl.1.3.11 Flesh is burthen sore; what then other bonds of life?
tkl.2.4.02 Is life, that nurses this poor Flesh, as nectar sweet?
tkl.2.4.07 All spirits homes of Flesh as habitation claim,

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