Need To Be Rightley Placed

 The Budhist teachings emphasizes that everything has its own value, so is the case of of every individual. No one is born without talents. But success depends on exploiting ones talents to its maximum. And for that it is important to be placed at a 'Right Place' where they are valued to their potential. So thet it could be expressed to its actual potential.

     In the story the 'Son' first takes the stone to a market where an old lady offers him two dollars for the it. Neither him nor the lady is aware of it's value. Then he takes the stone to a museum where a middle-aged man offers his 200 dollars which is hundred times the previous value. But it either is the actual value of the stone. Finally he takes the stone to a Precious stone store. The man at the store is very exited about the stone and offers him a whopping 200,000 dollars which is thousand times the previous value

    At all the places where he went the boy did the same act of rising his two fingers when asked its price. But each of the customers attested different values to the stone. We can easily understand that a market ain't a place where precious stones are likely to be sold so for the old lady at the market the stone isn't valued above 2 dollars. Though a museum is a likeley place  neither is it a perfect destination for a precious stone to be sold. It is the Precious Stone Store which is the perfece destination to sell it and there the storekeeper values it to its maximum.

      Likeley in case of humans inorder to express their talents and to be value their maximum it is important to be placed among the people whom value them. Remember though a lamb is way less brighter than the Sun and useless in the day it is as valued as the Sun in the nights.

Esthaphan Varghese

BA Sociology