(17) Friends who, exclusively to their self-interest, reciprocate with respect, are no real friends that way. Because they, in desiring their benefit, do not follow the principle.
(18) They who are respectful and kind without being respected themselves - like parents e.g. - are faultless in their sense of duty and of real friendship, oh slender [slanke] girls.
(19) As for those who have no respect, nor even answer the love they receive from others, one may speak of either self-satisfied souls, whose material desires are fulfilled, ungrateful dissatisfied human beings... or else persons inimical towards venerable personalities.
(20) But I, My friends, despite the respect I receive from other living beings, do not reciprocate that propensity [for love] in order to let it incréase! Someone will entertain no thought of anything else then, just like a poor man who collected some wealth and is afraid to lose it again.
(21) Because of your - for My sake - defying of what the people, the scriptures, and your relatives all say, and because of your propensity to love Me, I háve answered by disappearing from your sight, My dear girls. So do not be displeased with your Beloved, oh dear ones.
(22) I will not even living as long as a god in heaven be able to repay you for your unadulterated worship of Me. May your own pious activities constitute the answer for that coping with the so difficult to overcome chains of your household lives.
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