Kural 1308 · நோதல் எவன்மற்று நொந்தாரென்று அஃதறியும்
What is the use of grieving when there is no loved one near who would know that I am hurt?
The Eighteen Lesser Texts, including the Thirukkural.
What is the use of grieving when there is no loved one near who would know that I am hurt?
Water is sweet only when it lies in the shade; so too sulking is sweet only with one who loves us dearly.
That my heart says, 'Let us unite' with her who lets her sulk wither without soothing it is nothing but its longing.
All women, with their eyes, partake of you in common; therefore, O wanderer, I will not approach your chest.
While I sat sulking, he sneezed, knowing that I would bless him, saying, 'May you live long.'
Even if I wear a flower from the branch, she gets angry, saying, 'You wore it to show yourself to some woman.'
When I said, 'I love you more than anyone,' she at once sulked, asking, 'More than whom? More than whom?'
When I said, 'In this birth we shall not part,' her eyes at once filled with tears.
I said, 'I thought of you,' and she, who was about to embrace me, sulked and did not, saying, 'Then you had forgotten me.'
When I sneezed she blessed me; then she took back the blessing and wept, asking, 'Thinking of whom did you sneeze?'