Tirukkural-On Virtue-Social Cooperation-Kural 213

Rajaji's rendering of this Kural in English cannot be bettered:

There is no pleasure in this or in the other world,Equal to the joy of being helpful to those around you.

Even the land of the Gods, cannot produce such a rare pleasure as this one of effective social co-operation. When the late Arignar Annadurai said, 'In the smile of the poor I see God,' he was only echoing this sentiment. And the late Bharat Ratnha Kamaraj made it his life's mission to practise the same every day of his life.

A parallel is found in 'Mudhumozhikanchi'

'Oppura varithalirku varavillai'

(Mudhumozhi 52)