Chapters 24 Merits of transmitting the sūtra: far greater than those of charity

"Subhūti, if there were a person who accumulated the seven jewels in mounds equivalent to all the Mt. Sumerus in the worlds of three thousand galaxies and gave them away charitably, the merit gained by such a person, compared to that of someone who memorized, recited, and explained to others as much as a four-line verse of this scripture of transcendent wisdom, would not amount to a hundredth. Nor would it amount to billionth part. In fact, no metaphor of number is capable of describing this difference in merit."