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'Payan thookkaar' means those who do not weigh the benefit. 'Nayan thookkin' means if you weigh the goodness of that help.\n\nThere are two kinds of help. One calculates, \"If I do this today, I shall get this tomorrow.\" The other calculates nothing. The first is like trade; the second is dharma. Valluvar calls the second greater than the sea.\n\nThe sea here is a symbol of immeasurability. No one can easily measure its depth and breadth. In the same way the worth of a help without calculation cannot be measured. The pure heart of the giver shines in it.\n\nCommentators note a subtlety. Help without a thought of return creates equality between the two. There is no feeling of a higher giver and a lower receiver. It is an exchange of love.\n\nTo be able to help without expecting a result means the mind is free of greed. This agrees with the Gita's thought of action without attachment to fruit. So the verse is both a rule and a practice.\n\nWe can see it from the receiver's side too. If the help given to us was without any calculation, then however much we do in thanks it is little. So not forgetting it is our first duty.\n\nIn today's world the question 'what shall I get' often decides our helping. 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In a small village on the bank of the Kaveri lived a ferryman named Kuppan. At festival times people crossed the river to go to the temple, and Kuppan took them across in his boat. The usual fare was a coin, but one day an old woman came who had none.\n\nShe had walked a long way to reach the temple. The river was in spate. \"Sir, I have no coin, but I must see the Goddess,\" she said. Kuppan did not think even for a moment. \"Get in, mother,\" he said. He took her safely across and led her by the hand to the temple gate.\n\nThe old woman blessed him. He had not expected it. On her way back she boarded his boat again. He did not ask for a coin then either. But she took a small lump of jaggery from her bag and put it in his hand. \"My grandson gave me this; it is all I have today,\" she said.\n\nKuppan accepted it. As money it was worth nothing, but in his mind it was the greatest gift. He never forgot her face in his life.\n\nYears passed. In a great flood Kuppan's boat broke. He was left with no means of living. The villagers came forward to help him. A merchant gave the materials for a new boat. \"You carried my mother across that day,\" he said. The old woman was his mother.\n\nKuppan was stunned. The help he gave without asking a fare had come back as a great benefit. But he had not expected it then. This is the nature of help without calculation. It may return in unexpected ways, and if it does not, its worth is not lessened.\n\nThe story is invented, but its truth plays out before our eyes. A small act we did not calculate stays in many hearts.","reflection_ta":"\u0ba8\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b89\u0ba4\u0bb5\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bcb\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0bae\u0ba9\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0b95\u0ba3\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1 \u0bb5\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0bc7\u0ba9\u0bbe, \u0b85\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb2\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b8e\u0bb3\u0bbf\u0bae\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bbe\u0b95\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bca\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0bc7\u0ba9\u0bbe?","reflection_en":"When I help, do I secretly keep an account, or can I simply give?","image_prompt":"A boatman helping an old woman into a wooden coracle on a wide river in flood, temple gopuram on the far bank at sunrise, coconut palms, villagers waiting on shore, palm-leaf style with lotus border. Warm palm-leaf manuscript and Tanjore-painting inspired style, ivory, ochre, copper and deep teal palette, ornate gold border, no text or letters in the image."},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/verse"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2946,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/305\/revisions\/2946"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adhigaram\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kural_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kural_section?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"literary_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_category?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"author_poet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author_poet?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"thinai_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thinai_type?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"work_title","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work_title?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}