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“ കണക്കു വിട്ടാൽ പിണക്കു വരും”
English Translation:
Abandon proper accounts, and bitter quarrels will surely follow. (Clear accounts preserve friendships; financial ambiguity breeds distrust and conflict.)

— Malayalam

Related Mantras

“ ആയിരം ആർത്തി, ഒരു മൂർത്തി”
English Translation:
A thousand desperate cries of distress, yet only one divine refuge to heed them. (Countless human miseries turn to a single supreme wellspring of salvation.)

“ ഇളതെന്തല കഴിയാട്ടയാക്കരുതു (ഇളന്തലയാമൊ കുഴിനാടു)”
English Translation:
Do not make a tender sapling into a heavy plow-beam (nor can a tender shoot serve as a deep anchor post). (Never impose crushing, adult-scale responsibilities on fragile, developing youth.)

“ കട്ടകൊണ്ടു കട്ടതല്ലി”
English Translation:
Smashing one clod of earth with another clod of earth. (Fighting fire with fire; using equal, matched force to break an obstacle.)