Save they the 'Purely Wise One's' feet adore.
What Profit have those derived from learning, who worship not the good feet of Him who is possessed of pure knowledge ?
[Palmyrah products stored for sale, Nallur]
[Betel Nut tree, in Kantharmadam, Jaffna]
Kural 4
His foot, 'Whom want affects not, irks not grief,'
who gainShall not, through every time, of any woes complain.
To those who meditate the feet of Him who is void of desire or aversion, evil shall never come.
Kural 5
The men, who on the 'King's' true praised delight to dwell,
Affects not them the fruit of deeds done ill or well.
The two-fold deeds that spring from darkness shall not adhere to those who delight in the true praise of God.
[Rough ocean in Uswetakiyawa]
Kural 6
Long live they blest, who 've stood in path from falsehood freed;
His, 'Who quenched lusts that from the sense-gates five proceed'.
Those shall long proposer who abide in the faultless way of Him who has destroyed the five desires of the senses.
[Full moon in Kochchikade, Colombo at dusk]
Kural 7
Unless His foot, 'to Whom none can compare,'
men gain,'Tis hard for mind to find relief from anxious pain.
Anxiety of mind cannot be removed, except from those who are united to the feet of Him who is incomparable.
[Sunset in Negombo]
Kural 8
Unless His feet 'the Sea of Good, the Fair and Bountiful,' men gain,'
Tis hard the further bank of being's changeful sea to attain.
None can swim the sea of vice, but those who are united to the feet of that gracious Being who is a sea of virtue.
[Rainbow in Nilaveli]
Kural 9
Before His foot, 'the Eight-fold Excellence,' with unbent head,
Who stands, like palsied sense, is to all living functions dead.
The head that worships not the feet of Him who is possessed of eight attributes, is as useless as a sense without the power of sensation.
[Misty 'World's End', Haputale]