Tirukkural - 'On Virtue' - In Praise Of God - Kural 4

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1. Ventutal ventamai elanati cerntarkku
   yantum itumpai ila.

No evil shall ever come to those who have contemplated the feet,
Of him who is above human frailties of desire and hatred.

For those who find haven at God's Feet, which is the shrine of ultimate freedom from all attachment, there shall befall no evil or harm of any dimension. The description of God as one beyond all attachment is a Hindu idea, which finds its echoes in Jainism and Buddhism, but it is also expressed partially in the old classical writer Plutarch's statement, that 'God alone is entirely exempt from all want'. The broad idea, however, is common to all religions. And when a man contemplates God, according to the Gita (9,55), 'he is also freed from attachment and bears enmity towards no creature he entereth in Me'. Naturally, therefore, no evil shall come to him.

The word 'yaandum' implies a transcending of the bounds of time, while 'idumbai' according to Parimelalagar, refers to the triple problems of birth, relating to self, other creatures and to God.