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Today · Thirukkural · verse 330 · Discipline
உயிருடம்பின் நீக்கியா ரென்ப செயிருடம்பின் செல்லாத்தீ வாழ்க்கை யவர்.
Uyiruddambin nīkkiyār enpa seyiruddambin / sellāttī vāẓkkai yavar.
Those who say they have shed the soul from the body live a life where action cannot enter the living frame.
To renounce the body's vital energy is to paralyze the instrument through which virtue operates; indifference to action is not freedom, but a slow extinction of the will itself.
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