"Subhūti, if each of the sands in the Ganges river contained its own Ganges river, would not the number of sands contained in all those Ganges rivers be great?"
Subhūti said, "Extremely great, World Honored One. If the number of even the Ganges rivers were countless, how much more so its grains of sand?"
"Subhūti, now I am going to tell you a truth. If a good son or good daughter filled three thousand galaxies with the seven jewels equal to the number of grains of sand in all those Ganges rivers and gave them away charitably, would his or her merit not be great?"
"Extremely great, World Honored One."
The Buddha said to Subhūti: "If a good son or good daughter is able to memorize four lines of verse from this sūtra and teach them to others, his or her merit will be far greater."
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