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“ വിശന്നാൽ നിറകയില്ലെന്നും നിറഞ്ഞാൽ വിശക്കയില്ലെന്നും ഉണ്ടൊ”
English Translation:
Is it ever true that once hungry one never fills, or once full one never hungers again? (Human conditions are cyclical; hunger and fullness, poverty and plenty perpetually alternate, and no worldly state is permanent.)

— Malayalam

Related Mantras

“ കോനംപോലൊ കോനങ്കോനം”
English Translation:
Completely crooked, warp upon warp. (Thoroughly perverse, twisted, and bent beyond any hope of straightening.)

“ ചിറമുറിഞ്ഞിട്ടു അണകെട്ടിയാൽ ഫലമെന്തു”
English Translation:
What is the point of building a dam after the embankment has already burst? (Locking the stable door after the horse has bolted; useless precautions taken long after the catastrophe has struck.)

“ ഉഴിഞ്ഞെറിവാൻ നെല്ലുമരിയുമുണ്ടെങ്കിൽ കണ്ടുപിടിപ്പാൻ ബാധയുമുണ്ടു”
English Translation:
If you have ample rice to toss away on exorcisms, a demon will easily be found. (If you display resources to squander on superstition, opportunists will invent troubles to fleece you.)