The image is starkly physical: water that “leaps” and disperses does not remain in its useful form; it becomes ‘āvi’—steam/vapour—no longer graspable. Siddhar writing often uses ordinary substances to point to subtle principles. Here ‘nīr’ (water) can be read as (1) literal water and a general emblem of impermanence, or (2) bodily ‘water’—reproductive essence/ojas-like vitality—whose loss is associated in Siddha-yogic physiology with depletion, weakness, and disease.

The second line frames pleasure as the bait: “pāviyavan” (the sinful/ignorant person) seeks “inbam” (enjoyment), but the verse turns with a cutting question: was the suffering really “only a little”? This can be heard as irony—present pleasure makes the person underestimate future cost (karmic consequence, bodily decline, loss of prāṇa stability). In yogic/alchemical terms, the teaching also implies that what is dissipated outwardly cannot be readily converted inwardly into subtle power; the gross ‘water’ is not retained and transmuted, but escapes as a fleeting vapour.