In English
There is one small story. A great devotee, who was a very wealthy person, took a lot of gold and out of that gold he had prepared several fine items, each of twenty of gold. He made a fine idol of , a seat for putting that idol, an umbrella and also a cow to go along with . Each one of the items weighed twenty , the total being 100 of gold. In this way, he was experiencing Divinity of God in the forms made of gold. Time is such that things continu-ally go on changing; and with the passage of time, misfortune came to him and there was poverty in his house. A time had come when he did not have food to eat. He was driven to sell away the gold things which he was worshipping. He went to a person who would buy these items, and he wanted to get each one of them weighed and find out what price he would get for each item. The other wealthy person who was to buy the items, weighed the idol of . After finding the weight of , he offered to pay . 10,000 for it. After that, he weighed the pedestal and he said that he would pay . 10,000 for that. Then he weighed the cow and he said that also will fetch . 10,000. The devotee was in great pain. The devotee asked how it is that , the pedestal and the cow will each fetch the same . 10,000? The person who was going to purchase them was obviously not going to pay more money because it was the figure of . He will merely pay the cost of the weight of gold in each one of the items and not value the idol of differently from the cow. So, also, in the case of an individual, his value will depend on the Divinity that is in the individual and not on his wealth or his appearance, or his material possessions. The cup, the cow, the pedestal and the figure of are only different in their forms and in their names. The man who is going to value them, will value them on the basis of the amount of gold which is contained in each of them, and this is the same in all of them. The basic content of all these things is gold; and although each has a different form, it is the same gold. In the same manner, in this world many things appear to have different names and different forms and may create different impressions on different people. But what exists as a common base in all these things is the aspect of .