The opening triad is a Siddhar-style diagnostic aphorism linking frequency of eating with states of consciousness and health: once-a-day eating implies restraint (mitāhāra) and yogic orientation; twice implies ordinary enjoyment; thrice indicates indulgence that tends toward disorder (roga). In Siddha medicine, overeating is a primary cause for derangement of vātham–pitham–kapham, heaviness, dullness, and loss of prāṇa clarity—hence the blunt equation of “three meals” with disease.

The second half complicates any simple ascetic reading. “Yoni” can be literal (female generative organ/womb) and also symbolic (source, matrix, vessel, seat of Śakti). “Bhogam” (enjoyment/union) is placed alongside the earlier “bhogi,” implying that pleasure becomes harmful or harmless depending on measure and correctness. The claim that the body does not “thalarāthu” (slacken, weaken, lose firmness) suggests the Siddhar concern with conserving ojas/viriyam (vital essence). In a yogic-tantric register, “union with the yoni” may also point to an inner conjunction: Śiva–Śakti, iḍā–piṅgalā resolving into suṣumṇā, or the rise of kuṇḍalinī from the yoni-like base center—an alchemy of energies in which ‘enjoyment’ is transmuted rather than spent. Thus the verse teaches discipline without blanket negation: moderation in food and a “right” form of union lead to steadiness rather than depletion.