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Those who reach the feet of the Lord swim across the great sea of births; those who do not reach them do not swim across.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","kural_section":[30],"literary_category":[6],"author_poet":[22],"thinai_type":[],"work_title":[12],"class_list":["post-212","verse","type-verse","status-publish","hentry","kural_section-paayiraviyal","literary_category-patinenkilkanakku","author_poet-thiruvalluvar","work_title-thirukkural"],"acf":{"traditional_verse_number":"\u0b95\u0bc1\u0bb1\u0bb3\u0bcd 10","verse_sort":10,"tamil_verse_text":"\u0baa\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0baa\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bc6\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0b9f\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0bc0\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0bc0\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd\n\u0b87\u0bb1\u0bc8\u0bb5\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b85\u0b9f\u0bbf\u0b9a\u0bc7\u0bb0\u0bbe \u0ba4\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd.","english_translation":"","historical_notes":"","kural_adhigaram":70,"transliteration":"Piravip Perungatal Neendhuvar Neendhaar \/ Iraivan Atiseraa Thaar","couplet_en":"They alone cross the ocean of births and deaths who take refuge in the feet of the Lord: the others traverse it not.","word_meanings":"\u0baa\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0bb5\u0bbf | birth, the cycle of existence\n\u0baa\u0bc6\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0b9f\u0bb2\u0bcd | the great sea\n\u0ba8\u0bc0\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd | will swim across\n\u0ba8\u0bc0\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd | will not swim across\n\u0b87\u0bb1\u0bc8\u0bb5\u0ba9\u0bcd | the Lord, the Sovereign\n\u0b85\u0b9f\u0bbf | feet\n\u0b9a\u0bc7\u0bb0\u0bbe\u0ba4\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd | those who do not reach","meaning_ta":"\u0b87\u0bb1\u0bc8\u0bb5\u0ba9\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0b9f\u0bbf\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bc8\u0b9a\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bc7\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bbe\u0b95\u0bbf\u0baf \u0baa\u0bc6\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0b9f\u0bb2\u0bc8 \u0ba8\u0bc0\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0b9f\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd; 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Some understand this as the cycle of birth and death. Those with differing beliefs may read it as the turbulent journey of life, with its rises and falls. Waves rise and fall; birth and death, loss and gain, come in turn.\n\nThe pair of words 'neenthuvar neendhaar' sets affirmation and denial side by side in one line. Valluvar is categorical: those who reach the Lord's feet will swim across. 'Swimming' also implies effort. To reach the feet is not to lie idle; it is to move arms and legs and press forward. But anyone who has learned to swim knows something: the person who fights the water in rigid panic grows tired and sinks, while the one who leans trustingly on the water floats and advances. The same is true of humility. The person who trusts that something holds them up swims without fear.\n\nAt the end of the ten verses, this trust stands like a seal. The first verse began with 'the first', and the tenth ends with 'the sea': at the start, we recognise the ground; at the end, we cross with the help of that ground. In our own lives too, great waves of illness, loss and failure come. Then a mind that does not tense up and fight, but leans with trust, is the one that reaches the shore. As Valluvar leaves the threshold of this prologue and leads us into the house of virtue, he leaves us holding exactly this assurance: the sea is large, but it can be crossed.","story_title_ta":"\u0b85\u0ba9\u0bc1\u0bae\u0ba9\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b95\u0b9f\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bbe\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0ba4\u0bb2\u0bcd","story_ta":"\u0bb5\u0bbe\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bae\u0bc0\u0b95\u0bbf \u0b87\u0bb0\u0bbe\u0bae\u0bbe\u0baf\u0ba3\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1.\n\n\u0b9a\u0bc0\u0ba4\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bc8\u0ba4\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bc7\u0b9f\u0bbf \u0b87\u0bb0\u0bbe\u0bae\u0ba9\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bb0\u0baa\u0bcd \u0baa\u0b9f\u0bc8 \u0ba4\u0bc6\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb0\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bc8 \u0b85\u0b9f\u0bc8\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0ba4\u0bc1. \u0bae\u0bc1\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0ba9\u0bbe\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0bae\u0bc1\u0b9f\u0bbf\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb2\u0bbe\u0ba4\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0baa\u0bcb\u0bb2 \u0bb5\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bbf\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b95\u0bbf\u0b9f\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0baa\u0bc6\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0b9f\u0bb2\u0bcd. \u0ba8\u0bc2\u0bb1\u0bc1 \u0baf\u0bcb\u0b9a\u0ba9\u0bc8 \u0ba4\u0bc2\u0bb0\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b89\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0bb3 \u0b85\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0b9f\u0bb2\u0bc8\u0ba4\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bbe\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bbf \u0b87\u0bb2\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1\u0b9a\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b8e\u0bb3\u0bbf\u0ba4\u0bbe\u0ba9 \u0b95\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b85\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1; 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In front of them lay the great ocean, spreading as if without end. To cross that sea of a hundred yojanas and reach Lanka was no easy task. Each of the vanaras said how far he could leap, openly stating his limit, and they sat down in sorrow. Then the old Jambavan reminded Hanuman of his birth and his strength: \"Hanuman, you are the son of the Wind. You can do this.\"\n\nRemembering his power, and keeping Rama in his heart, Hanuman climbed to the peak of Mount Mahendra. He grew his body, rose toward the sky and leapt over the sea. The mountain shook with his thrust. The mountain Mainaka, rising from the waters, invited him to rest a while. \"Until I finish Rama's work, I have no rest,\" said Hanuman, and touched and honoured the peak before going on. The serpent mother Surasa, sent by the devas to test him, opened her vast mouth to swallow him. He made his body subtly small, entered her mouth, came out at once and bowed to her. He also overcame the demoness Simhika, who dragged at his shadow.\n\nAt last, the Ramayana tells us, he reached the shore of Lanka and began his mission. The sea, with its waves and demonesses and obstacles, could not defeat him. Together with his strength, his firm attachment and humility toward Rama carried him across.\n\nBirth and death are a great ocean, hard to swim. Obstacles rise like mountains and demonesses to stop us halfway. But those who hold the feet of the Lord will swim across that sea; those who do not, will not. That is the kural's thought.","reflection_ta":"\u0b89\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bbe\u0bb4\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4 \u0b87\u0b9f\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0bc0\u0bb0\u0bc8 \u0b8e\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b87\u0bb1\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bbf\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bb3\u0bc8\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0baa\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bcb\u0bb0\u0bbe\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0bc0\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd? \u0b85\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc7 \u0ba8\u0bae\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bbf\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bcb\u0b9f\u0bc1 \u0b9a\u0bbe\u0baf\u0bb2\u0bbe\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b85\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb2\u0bb5\u0bbe?","reflection_en":"Where in your life are you fighting the water, tight and exhausted, when you might trust and lean?","image_prompt":"Hanuman leaping across the ocean toward Lanka with the mountain Mainaka rising from the waves, from the Valmiki Ramayana, in Tanjore-painting and palm-leaf manuscript style, ivory, ochre, copper and deep teal palette, no text or letters in the image."},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/verse"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/212\/revisions\/1545"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adhigaram\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kural_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kural_section?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"literary_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_category?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"author_poet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author_poet?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"thinai_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thinai_type?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"work_title","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work_title?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}