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Today · Thirukkural · verse 1318 · Love
தும்முச் செறுப்ப அழுதாள் நுமர்உள்ளல் எம்மை மறைத்திரோ என்று.
Thummu-ch cherruppa azhu-dhaal numar-ullal / Emmai marai-thirō enru.
When rivals press close, she weeps and cries: / Are you hiding me away from them?
Love's anxiety reveals the lover's lack of mastery over her own judgments—she has surrendered her peace to another's regard. The beloved's visibility has become her fortune, a dependency the Stoic must recognize as outside the citadel of the self.
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