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Once upon a time, a man went Gautama and asked. O lard, please tell me, what is the worth of human life? Gautam smiled and gave him a shining stone and said first go and find the worth of this stone.
Go to different shops in the market and tell them that yu want to sell this stone but remember do not sell this stone in any case. The man got puzzled with Buddha’s rely. But without saying anything he took the stone and went to the market.
First, he went to an orange seller and asked him about the worth of the stone. Orange seller took the stone in hand, looked it and relied I will give a dozen of oranges of this stone.
The man took that stone back and went to a vegetable vendor and asked him the same question. The vendor also took the stone in hand, looked at it and said, take a sack of potatoes and leave this shiny stone.
The man was still not satisfied with all these answers, so he kept going on. Next he went to a goldsmith and showed him the stone. Goldsmith was amazed but the shine of the stone and said sell me this stone for one lakh gold coins. The man was surprise to hear this offer but he refused this offer. The Goldsmith then got ready to pay him five lakh gold cons. The man said, my teacher has told me not to sell this stone to anyone.
Finally, the man went to diamond merchant and showed him the stone, when diamond merchant saw this beautiful and shining stone, he could bot believe his eyes. He was memorized by the beauty of stone, the diamond merchant first laid down a red velvet cloth, and the diamond merchant first laid down a red velvet loth and then placed that stone on it and bowed before it. Then he asked the man where did y9ou find this precious stone? Then he said even after selling the whole work, we cannot estimate the wroth of tis ruby stone. This is priceless and invaluable. The man got puzzled with the variety of experience he just had with different people and went straight back to lord Buddha. There he narrated his story to Buddha and asked him. Please now tell me, what is the worth of human life? Buddha smiled and relied, you see my friend the orange seller quoted 12 oranges for this stone. Vegetable vendor said one sack of potatoes. Goldsmith valued the stone at 500000 gold coins and finally the diamond merchant said that this stone is invaluable.
The same is true for human life. In fact, you are a gem. But people around you will value you according to their status, knowledge and capacity. But do not worry as this world will also identify and find your true value one day.
If we see in our lives then we will find that often people do not know their own worth and that is why they settle for far less than they deserve. The value of your life depends on where you place yourself. People will understand your value as much as you will value yourself. If you underestimate your worth ten you will get less from this world. And if you feel yourself worthy then you will get more out of this world. Most of the people just allow anyone to evaluate their worth. But people who know their true value will just refuse to accept the opinions of others. They refuse to be defined by anyone because they know that their value is set by themselves, not someone else’s opinion of what they are worth. Therefore, do not let people put a price on you and you set your own price.
