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“ കണ്ടതു തീണ്ടൽ, കേട്ടതു പുല”
English Translation:
Everything seen is ritual defilement; everything heard is ceremonial pollution. (Neurotic, suffocating orthodoxy that invents taboos and offenses out of ordinary daily occurrences.)

— Malayalam

Related Mantras

“ ഏറെ പഠിത്വമുള്ള ഗൌളിക്കു കാടിക്കലത്തിൽ അപായം”
English Translation:
The lizard renowned for its predictive wisdom meets its doom inside a pot of fermented wash. (Overly clever know-it-alls who forecast the future often perish through basic carelessness.)

“ ഊടും പാവും പോലെ”
English Translation:
Like the warp and the weft of a woven fabric. (Inextricably intertwined; perfectly integrated and mutually dependent.)

“ വേല ഒപ്പമല്ലെങ്കിലും വെയിൽ ഒപ്പം കൊണ്ടാൽ മതി”
English Translation:
Even if the work done is not equal, it is enough if you bore the blazing sun together. (Shared solidarity; standing together through hardship and distress matters as much as the exact measure of labor.)