desires,grief,thirukkural-On Virtue-Elimination Of Desire-Kural 368

No grief will come to those who have eliminated all desire;
Where there is desire, endless sorrows will co-exist.

This again is a reiteration of the idea of the previous Kural, the desirelessness is the basis of all virtue and would lead to the achievement of life"s purpose. The concept has been explained with systematic emphasis in several chapters of the Gita.

In culmination comes the following passage:

'He who neither rejoices nor hates, nor grieves nor desires, renouncing good and evil, full of devotion, he is dear to Me"(Gita 12, 17)