Many years back, when I was going through the toughest phase, I confined myself to a corner. We can call it a big case of depression. What also made me shut down was everyone’s comments, how I did things and how I should have done. But when God wants to lift you up, he will come and lift you up. So I heard a story and I am sharing that here.
There was a famous Guruji in a city. It was famous that if he would take your child, your child will really do well in life. So a mother requested for the admission of her child and the Guruji said that the child had to give a test. The guruji gave a rock and the child to find its value, but not to sell. So the child first meets a vegetable seller, who checks the rock and things he can use it as a weighing stone. He offers one kg potato in return. Then the second person is a farmer, who thinks that his children could play with it and offers a sack of wheat. The third person is a jeweler, who thinks that he could make some jewelry by breaking it offers 100 gold coins. Now, the child feels very confident and dares to go. to the king. The king consults his court members and offers his half the kingdom. The child does not sell it and comes back to the Guru thinking, now my admission is confirmed. As I am bringing in half the kingdom. But the guru cancels his admission. He wonders why? The guruji explains to him that this rock is a Paras pathar or a Philospher’s stone as we call it. It can buy anything in this world as it will turn everything into Gold. Now, the thing to learn here is, we all are like a hidden Philospher’s stone. Everyone would put a value to us, depending on what they have, rather than who we are. We need to realize that if we want to be bogged down by what others are thinking and saying of us. BEcause what they say, is who they are. They can judge us on the basis of that. I learned it and I picked up myself.
Why to talk about this story today? Because everyone is staying at home and everyone is in a harsh environment> Everyone is going through some patterns, which is also triggering a lot of old patterns. People are taking out these things on each other by saying harsh words and judging. I have been receiving such calls, where people are going down mentally because of what others are saying. I know it’s not a right thing but still if others are doing this insensitive thing, we need to know our own value. We do not have to feel down because of that.
We all have that touch of Gold,w e need to remember that and we need to find that.
