Unhelped in turn good help given
Exceeds in worth earth and heaven.
A help rendered in hour of need
Though small is greater than the world.
Help rendered without weighing fruits
Outweighs the sea in grand effects.
Help given though millet - small
Knowers count its good palm - tree tall.
A help is not the help's measure
It is gainer's worth and pleasure.
Forget not friendship of the pure
Forsake not timely helpers sure.
Through sevenfold births, in memory fares
The willing friend who wiped one's tears.
To forget good turns is not good
Good it is over wrong not to brood.
Let deadly harms be forgotten
While remembering one good-turn.
The virtue-killer may be saved
Not benefit-killer who is damned.
GRATITUDE
