Realising the Truth
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kāmam vekuḷi mayakka mivaimūṉṟa / ṉāmaṅ keṭakkeṭu nōy
When desire, anger, and delusion—the three—vanish so completely that even their names disappear, the karmic suffering produced by them also ends.
▸Other translations · Pope (1886) & Aiyar (1916)
“When lust and wrath and error's triple tyranny is o'er, / Their very names for aye extinct, then pain shall be no more.”
“As desire and anger and delusion leave a man, his ills also follow their pace and slowly melt away.”
Parimelazhagar’s commentary
13th century · public domainParimelazhagar’s own words come first, unaltered. The plain reading follows below.
காமம் வெகுளி மயக்கம் இவை மூன்றன் நாமம் கெட= ஞானயோகங்களின் முதிர்ச்சியுடையார்க்கு விழைவு, வெறுப்பு, அவிச்சை என்னும் இக்குற்றங்கள் மூன்றனுடைய பெயருங்கூடக் கெடுதலான்; நோய்கெடும்= அவற்றின் காரியமாய வினைபபயன்கள் உளவாகா.
Source: Tamil Wikisource
Parimelazhagar attributes this culmination to mature practitioners of knowledge and yoga: desire, aversion, and avidyā cease, so their karmic results no longer arise. The verse is not a medical cure claim and does not shame sexuality, ordinary emotion, trauma responses, anger at injustice, or mental illness.