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 TRANSMIGRALION OR INHERITED DEEDS, 7

68. விதித்த விதியைவிட, வேறு ஈடக்குமா ? Will anything but what is destined happen to men ? “உ That which must be, will be.”

69. வருந்தி அழைத்தாலும்‌, வாராது வாராது. Though we beg and call, that which will not come, will not come, © Beery man has his lot.”

TRANSMIGRATION OR INHERITED DEEDS. வினை.

70. அவன்‌ அவன்‌ செய்த வினை, அவன்‌ அவனுச்கே. The deeds of each individual will follow each individual (into the next world). “ ds you make your bed, so must you 878 ow it.”

7!. காமத்தினாலே வந்தது, சர்மத்தனாலே போகவேண்டிய த. What has come over one by inheritance, must be got rid of by virtuous acts. 72. காளை போன வழியே கயிறு போகும்‌. Wherever the bull runs, its rope will follow. 75. Whatever one haa done, good or evil, will follow him. © As you sow, 2௦ you shall reap.”

73, செய்த வினை செய்தவர்க்கு எய்திடும்‌ (வரும்‌). What a person has done in ஐ former birth, will come upon him again. 74. கூலி குறைத்தாயோ, குறைமரக்சால்‌ இட்டாயோ?. Did you reduce your servants’ wages, or did you measure with a scanty measure ? Said to one, who has a hard 1௦% in this life; implying that the canse of it must be some bad actions doue in a former birth. (This may be said in a quarrel in arder to stop the mouth of an opponent.) 75. தன்‌ நிழல்‌ தன்னோடே age. Our shadow will follow us. 72, 76. gor வினை சன்னைச்‌ சுடும்‌, ஐட்டப்பம்‌ வீட்டைச்‌ சுடும்‌. His own deeds will burn him, and a cake will burn the house.

Patanatiu Pillayar, the poet, used to eat with men of all castes, which is contrary to Hindurnle, His sister secing this and thinking him better dead than so defiled baked a cake with poison in it and gave it to him. The sage knowing her purpose, took the eake and placed it among the wiles on the roof of her house. By a miracle it set the hause on fire, ‘Thus the evi] woman’s deed was requited.

77. இனை விதைத்தவன்‌ இனை அறுப்பான்‌, Star விதைத்தவன்‌ வினை அறுப்பான்‌. He who sows millet, reaps millet, he who sows deeds (good or bad) will reap accordingly.