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3081. சத்தியத்திலே சாமி சாட்சி என்கிற சத்தியம் பெரிது.
To say God is the witness of what one testifies, is the highest of all forms of oath.

3167. சாக்கும் போக்கும் ஏற்காது ஐயன் முன்.
Excuses are of no avail before God.

3203. சாமி வரம் கொடுத்தாலும் பூசாரி இடம் கொடுக்கமாட்டான்.
Though God may bestow the gift, the priest will not suffer you to enjoy it.

3325. சுய காரிய துரந்தரன் சுவாமி காரியம் வழவழ.
He who is intent about his own affairs will not mind the things of God.

3338. சுவாமி வரம் கொடுத்தாலும் முன்னடியான் வரம் கொடான்.
Though God may grant a boon, the devotee in his presence will not.

3373. செங்கோல் ஓங்குவன் திரித்துவ தேவன்.
He who holds the sceptre is the triune God.

3478. சொல்லுக்கும் பொருளுக்கும் எட்டாதான் சோதிக்கும் சாதிக்கும் நடுவானான்.
He whom neither language nor wealth can influence, has come between God and man.

3679. தன் வாய்ச் சீதேவி முன்வாயிலே.
The presence of the goddess of prosperity, will be evinced in the speech.

3758. தானாக வந்த சீதேவியைக் காலால் உதைத்துத் தள்ளலாமா?
When the goddess of prosperity unsought visits you, is it right to kick her out?

3791. திக்கு அற்றவனுக்குத் தெய்வம் துணை.
God in the help of the destitute.

3825. திருவிளக்கு இல்லா வீட்டில் பேய் குடியிருக்கும்.
Demons dwell in the house that is not illumined by a sacred lamp.
To smear a room with cow-dung, especially on Friday, and to keep a lamp burning through the night, ale observances pleasing to the goddess of prosperity.

3826. திருவிளக்கு இட்டாரைத் தெய்வம் அறியும், நெய்வார்த்து உண்டாரை நெஞ்சு அறியும்.
The Deity knows those who place sacred lamps, and the mind knows who eats ghee and rice.

3849. தீதுறும் பாவச் செய்கை அற்றவன் தேவன்.
He who abstains from evil deeds is God.

3862. தீராத நெஞ்சுக்குத் தெய்வமே சாட்சி.
God himself is the witness of the unquiet mind.

3863. தீரா வழக்குக்குத் தெய்வமே சாட்சி.
God is the witness in an undecided cause.

image of Vishnu.

3935. தெய்வ சித்தம் இருந்தால் செத்தவனும் எழும்புவான்.
God being willing, even the dead may rise.

3956. தேடித் தின்றவர் தெய்வத்தோடு ஒத்தவர்.
He who earns his own bread is like god.

3972. தேவரைக் காட்டிப் பூதம் பணி கொள்ளும்.
Under pretence that gods require it, goblins exact service from men.
Goblins or ghosts of the kind referred to, are employed by magicians. They are supposed to haunt grave yards, places of cremation, buried treasure &companies of them attend Siva, Ganesa &c.

3978. தேனும் தினைமாவும் தேவருக்கு அர்ப்பிதம்.
Honey mixed with tinai flour is offered to the gods.

4029. தெளவையின் மனதுக்கு ஒவ்வுதல் இல்லை.
Nothing gives satisfaction to the goddess of misfortune.

4043. நடக்கிறது நடக்கட்டும் தெய்வம் இருக்கிறது.
Let things take their course ; there is a God.


4046. நடந்தவன் காலிலே சீதேவி, இருந்தவன் காலிலே மூதேவி.
The goddess of fortune dwells in the feet of the industrious, the goddess of misfortune dwells in the feet of the sluggard.

The goddess of prosperity or fortune, and the goddess of adversity or misfortune, two sisters, mentioned in this proverb, exercise a mysterious influence over the minds of the vulgar. These remarkable beings are said to have been produced when the celestials, in search of ambrosia, churned the milky ocean. The opinion expressed in the proverb is also contained in a stanza of Niti neri villakkam a poem on moral subjects, justly admired by the learned, for the terseness and beauty of its composition, as well as for the general purity of its moral sentiments. The poet says:-

“When the goddess of prosperity finds that her favours are not appreciated, she introduces her elder sister, the goddess of adversity, to the sluggard, and then takes her departure.”

The goddess of fortune, whose presence is a guarantee for happiness andprosperity, is said to dwell in the face of a horse of superior caste, -with the wise and good,-in all fragrant flowers,-in the tree of paradise that bestows whatever it’s votaries may desire,-in the beauty ofa good and obedient wife, -in the ocean,-in the portal of a house where a marriage is being celebrated,-in a well governed country,-in grain in brilliant lamps and flaming torches,-in the words of the great,-with truth-speaking men,-in the arrows of Cupid, -and in vessels of milk.

The goddess of misfortune is said to have her habitation with the glutton.-the irascible, – with liars and other abandoned characters, – with those clothed in rags,-with vicious women,-in a flock of sheep, and in the face of the dead.

4138. நா என்னும் அட்சரம் நாதன் இருப்பிடம்.
The letter நா is the seat of God.

4237. நான் நட்டேன் நாதன் பயிர் ஆக்கினான்.
I planted; god caused it grow.

4241. நிஷ்டூரன் கண்ணைத் தெய்வம் கெடுக்கும், நீதிமான் கண்ணைப் பரிதானம் கெடுக்கும்.
God will destroy the eyes of an oppressor, and a bribe will destroy the eye of an upright man.

4287. நீ பிறர்க்கு உதவி செய்தால் தெய்வம் உனக்கு உதவி செய்யும்.
If you help others, God will help you.

4370. நொண்டி நொண்டி நடப்பானேன் கண்டதற்கு எல்லாம் படைப்பானேன்?
Why walk limping, and why offer oblations, to every god you see ?

—Subham—-

Tags- Tamil Proverbs, on God, Part 2

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Post No. 14,774

Date uploaded in London –  18 July 2025

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Tirukkural was translated by Kavi Yogi in prose and poetry .

KAVI YOGI SHUDDANANDA BHARATI (11 May 1897 – 7 March 1990)

Spurning the glitter of God

Forlorn I left my home

A pilgrim soul calm and bold

Taking refuge in Thy name.

Minakshi, O Mother of Love

Thy grace guided me from above

It is with me then and now

And its glory I can prove.

In the thick of mental fight

In dark despair, dreadful glens

A lightning smile removed the night

And illumined my existence

Thy dawn-like form, Thy fawn like gait

Thy fire like purity

Thy bird like voice and sun like sight

O Thy simplicity.

Thy benign hands streaming with gifts

Thy heart so large and kind

Thy limitless grace uplifts

To godhood aspiring mankind.

Wiped are my tears

At the thought of Thy Grace

Driven are my fears

At the sight of Thy face

Thy faith is my strength

Thy love is my wealth

Thy service is my creed

From worries I am freed.

Picture of Kavi Yogi

Thou singest in my soul

The song that is for all

Thou feedest my hunger

To be Thy silent singer

Minakshi, Thy magic name

Is a delightful thrill

That wins the frightful game

Of life which in Thee full

Lead me to love Thee more and more

In all beings high and low

Live O Light in my heart’s core

And bless my act with a Jai HO.

–Subham—

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Post No. 14,772

Date uploaded in London –  17 July 2025

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God Almighty never shut eye.

After God, then the white people.

Everyday Devil help thief, one day God help watchman

(In Tamil we  say Pala naal thirudan our naal agappaduvaan, meaning many day thief will be caught one day ).

–Negro

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One may go around a ravine or around a hill, but one cannot go around God.

God gives and doesn’t remind us continually of it; the world gives and constantly reminds us.

No one who trusts in God will ever fall .

(Tamil Poet Bharati also said this; whoever trusts in God will never fail; this is the conclusion of Four Vedas)

God will outlive eternity.

God who made the mouth will not close it up (i.e. Lord will provide.

(This is in Tamil as well; Padaiththavan Padi alappaan, meaning Creator will measure the grains  (for the person created).

God knew how to hide the shame (nakedness) of the maize with the husks.

–Nupe (Northern Nigeria)

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Call upon the name of God and ask for what is good for you.

God does not kill everyone with a club, but takes away his understanding.

God has never spoken except to an Arab.

If God is our friend, our business is accomplished.

Where God is, there is everything.

God loves good accounts.

There are no two together but God makes a third.

Hurry is of the devil, but slow advancing comes from God.

Oriental Proverbs.

The liberal man is the friend of God.

What can your enemies do if you enjoy the favour of God?

You can’t have both God and dates.

If you have God as your protector, what affliction have you?

God gives much cold to the well clad, but little to those who lack clothing.

God has in store many hidden mercies.

Your saviour is your deeds and God Himself.

God is a tray of plunder.

God provides the Dervish’s kitchen

God rights him that keeps silence.

God will not seek thy race nor will He ask thy birth; alone He will demand of thee what hast thou on earth?

God’s club makes no noise; when it strikes no cure for the blow.

The legs of those who require proof of God’s existence are made of wood.

To do things quickly is of Satan, because God works slowly.

When God wills the destruction of an ant , He gives it wings.

–Persian

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You will noy buy much with God Bless You.

Fear God and next to God, him that has no fear of God.

Trust in God and put your shoulder to the wheel.

Offer the candle to God, and to the devil the butt.

Hold God by the feet, and he devil by the horns.

God can shave without soap.

God did not join Brains with Beauty.

When praising God, do not bow to the devil.

To him whom, God favours ,a bitch will  bear a litter of pigs.

To him who rises early God gives.

God gives the wideness of the mouth according to the bigness of the spoon.

Man shoots, but God guides the bullet .

God has given all to all and not all to one.

God has given; God has taken.

What God has given will not be taken away by envy; what God has not given will fall out of your hands.

When it pleases God, He likewise gives behind the hearth.

Thou wouldest do little for God if the devil were dead.

He who swims with God never goes to the bottom.

Where God puts one finger the devil puts his whole hand.

God saves the moon from the wolves.

Man carries the powder and God the bullets.

God will afflict; God will console.

God will help a ploughing man.

If God wills even a cock will lay an egg.

(In Sanskrit they say even a dumb will speak fluently, even a lame will climb the mountain)

When God wishes to punish, He will deprive of his reason.

In time of need one turns first to God and then to Jew.

In want to the Jew; in distress to the priest; in fear, to God.

Polish Proverbs

–subham—

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