DAY 214
No Friend Is He Who Will Not Give
기원전 1500~1200년경(구전 전승)
ORIGINAL
न स सखा यो न ददाति सख्ये (na sa sakhā yo na dadāti sakhye)
📜 THE VERSE
He who offers nothing to a friend who comes imploring food — that one is no friend.
❓ TODAY'S QUESTION
Am I a friend only in easy times, quietly stepping back when the other truly needs me?
📝Reflection
A friend's true face shows not in good times but when the other is in need. The poet says it sharply — if you offer no hand to a friend who comes for help, you are no friend. Anyone is a friend while laughing and eating together. But the one who quietly slips away the moment the other grows shabby, we do not call a friend. Friendship is not proven at the feast. It is proven by the hand I extend when someone comes to me empty-handed.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
Reach out first today to one acquaintance who has fallen on hard times, and ask if they need anything.
📖 Source:
Rigveda 10.117.5.
Sanskrit original with public-domain translations consulted; rendered independently by ONGO.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
