Tiruvalluvar, Tirukural — Chapter 1 (1886)
“ The head that worships not the feet of Him who is possessed of eight attributes, is as useless as a sense without the power of sensation. Kural-10 They swim the sea of births, the 'Monarch's' foot who gain; None others reach the shore of being's mighty main. None can swim the great sea of births but those who are united to the feet of God. ”
