qMonk literal translation — draft, pending review
However many jobs there are in this world that nobody can get near —
exactly that many turn easy to walk into, once your kindness has reached them.
Durgama and sugama are not words about work. They are words about ground. Dur-gama is hard to go through, su-gama easy to go through, and both are built on gam, to go: what you say about a mountain pass, a river crossing, a road in the rains. Applied to kāja, tasks, they keep the picture underneath. The hard thing in this chaupai is not heavy. It is impassable — and what changes is not how strong the traveller has become but whether there is a way through at all.
Jete and tete are a matched pair, "as many as… exactly that many." The count on either side of the couplet is identical. Nothing is left over on the difficult side, and the poem takes care to say so with grammar rather than with emphasis.
Anugraha is anu plus grah, a taking-hold-toward: grace, favour, the act of holding something on somebody else's behalf. It is the ordinary word for a superior's kindness, and it names something given rather than something earned. Which is why this couplet, generous as it is, sets no price. It says what his grace does. It does not say what to do to obtain it, and nothing in the two lines turns on the reader at all.
Think of something that felt impossible until somebody helped you. What did they actually do?
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