Virtue (அறத்துப்பால்) — Ascetic Virtue (துறவறவியல்) — Truth-Conciousness (மெய்யுணர்தல்)

Kural 351:
பொருளல்ல வற்றைப் பொருளென்று உணரும்
மருளானாம் மாணாப் பிறப்பு.
poruLalla vatraip poruLendru uNarum
maruLaanaam maaNaap piRappu
English couplet:
Of things devoid of truth as real things men deem;-
Cause of degraded birth the fond delusive dream!.
Explanation: Inglorious births are produced by the confusion (of mind) which considers those things to be real which are not real.

Kural 352:
இருள்நீங்கி இன்பம் பயக்கும் மருள்நீங்கி
மாசறு காட்சி யவர்க்கு.
iruLnheengi inpam payakkum maruLnheengi
maasaRu kaatchi yavarkku
English couplet:
Darkness departs, and rapture springs to men who see,
The mystic vision pure, from all delusion free.
Explanation: A clear, undimmed vision of things will deliver its possessors from the darkness of future births, and confer the felicity (of heaven).

Kural 353:
ஐயத்தின் நீங்கித் தெளிந்தார்க்கு வையத்தின்
வானம் நணிய துடைத்து.
aiyaththin neengith theLindhaarkku vaiyaththin
vaanam naNiya thudaiththu
English couplet:
When doubts disperse, and mists of error roll
Away, nearer is heav'n than earth to sage's soul.
Explanation: Heaven is nearer than earth to those men of purified minds who are freed from from doubt.

Kural 354:
ஐயுணர்வு எய்தியக் கண்ணும் பயமின்றே
மெய்யுணர்வு இல்லா தவர்க்கு.
aiyuNarvu eydhiyak kaNNum payamindrae
meyyuNarvu illaa thavarkku
English couplet:
Five-fold perception gained, what benefits accrue
To them whose spirits lack perception of the true?.
Explanation: Even those who have all the knowledge which can be attained by the five senses, will derive no benefit from it, if they are without a knowledge of the true nature of things.

Kural 355:
எப்பொருள் எத்தன்மைத் தாயினும் அப்பொருள்
மெய்ப்பொருள் காண்பது அறிவு.
epporuL eththanmaith thaayinum apporuL
meypporuL kaaNpadhu aRivu
English couplet:
Whatever thing, of whatsoever kind it be,
'Tis wisdom's part in each the very thing to see.
Explanation: (True) knowledge is the perception concerning every thing of whatever kind, that that thing is the true thing.

Kural 356:
கற்றீண்டு மெய்ப்பொருள் கண்டார் தலைப்படுவர்
மற்றீண்டு வாரா நெறி.
katreeNdu meypporuL kaNdaar thalaippatuvar
matreeNdu vaaraa neRi
English couplet:
Who learn, and here the knowledge of the true obtain,
Shall find the path that hither cometh not again.
Explanation: They, who in this birth have learned to know the True Being, enter the road which returns not into this world.

Kural 357:
ஓர்த்துள்ளம் உள்ளது உணரின் ஒருதலையாப்
பேர்த்துள்ள வேண்டா பிறப்பு.
OrththuLLam uLLadhu uNarin orudhalaiyaap
paerththuLLa vaeNdaa piRappu
English couplet:
The mind that knows with certitude what is, and ponders well,
Its thoughts on birth again to other life need not to dwell.
Explanation: Let it not be thought that there is another birth for him whose mind having thoroughly considered (all it has been taught) has known the True Being.

Kural 358:
பிறப்பென்னும் பேதைமை நீங்கச் சிறப்பென்னும்
செம்பொருள் காண்பது அறிவு.
piRappennum paedhaimai neengach siRappennum
semporuL kaaNpadhu aRivu
English couplet:
When folly, cause of births, departs; and soul can view
The truth of things, man's dignity- 'tis wisdom true.
Explanation: True knowledge consists in the removal of ignorance; which is (the cause of) births, and the perception of the True Being who is (the bestower of) heaven.

Kural 359:
சார்புணர்ந்து சார்பு கெடஒழுகின் மற்றழித்துச்
சார்தரா சார்தரு நோய்.
saarpuNarndhu saarpu kedaozhukin matrazhiththuch
saardharaa saardharu noai
English couplet:
The true 'support' who knows- rejects 'supports' he sought before-
Sorrow that clings all destroys, shall cling to him no more.
Explanation: He who so lives as to know Him who is the support of all things and abandon all desire, will be freed from the evils which would otherwise cleave to him and destroy (his efforts after absorption).

Kural 360:
காமம் வெகுளி மயக்கம் இவ்மூன்றன்
நாமம் கெடக்கெடும் நோய்.
kaamam vekuLi mayakkam ivmoondran
naamam kedakketum noai
English couplet:
When lust and wrath and error's triple tyranny is o'er,
Their very names for aye extinct, then pain shall be no more.
Explanation: If the very names of these three things, desire, anger, and confusion of mind, be destroyed, then will also perish the evils (which flow from them).