A
CLASSIFIED COLLECTION
OF
TAMIL PROVERBS.
GOD.
கடவுள்.
These Sentences about God are not Proverbs, but Aphorisms.
- கடவுள் துணை
- God (is our) help, or The Lord is our help.
- This little sentence is put above the Title of almost every Hindu book.
- கடவுள் துணை or தெய்வமே துணை are the most common. But we meet also with:
- கணபதி துணை; ஸ்ரீராம ஜெயம் and other expressions.
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- அன்புக்கு ஒருவனே
- God is love. (Upanishad.)
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- அறியாத வஸ்து or மனோவாக்குக்கு எட்டாதவன்.
- The unknown God, or The One that cannot be reached by mind or by words.
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- அரிது அரிது அஞ்சு எழுத்து உணர்தல்
- Exceedingly difficult it is to know the five letters.
- The ' five letters ' refer to famous incantation, or the highest spiritual wisdom, or God's Name.
- "The best way to see divine light, is to put out thine own candle."
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"Some say that eight plain hold all truth,
And some that it doth dwell in five!
No wonder that such living fools
Exalt Vishnu, and Siva praise."
