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“ മന്ത്രം കൊണ്ടു മാങ്ങാ വീഴുകയില്ല”
English Translation:
Mangoes do not drop from the bough merely by chanting incantations. (Empty words, wishes, and spells cannot substitute for hard work and direct physical exertion.)

— Malayalam

Related Mantras

“ സുഖദുഖാദികൾ വെള്ളത്തിൽഇട്ട ഉതളങ്ങ പോലെ”
English Translation:
Joys and sorrows are like an odollam fruit bobbing upon water. (Fortunes rise and sink incessantly with the shifting swells of circumstance; worldly states are fluid and unstable.)

“ ഒരാറെവന്നതെല്ലാം പൂളോനും മക്കളും”
English Translation:
All that washed down the river was swept away by Poolan and his sons. (A single dominant family or party monopolizing all the spoils or claiming every outcome.)

“ ഈക്കലിന്മേൽ വെള്ളക്കാ കുത്തിയപോലെ”
English Translation:
Like impaling a heavy unripe gourd on a flimsy broomstick splinter. (A ridiculously precarious, top-heavy arrangement destined to snap under pressure.)