Precious

What is precious ???   Sri Sri ....... Preciousness within Objects will gain value and lose value,but space will never lose value.    When you buy a cup, what do you give the value for?  Do you give money for the space inside,  or for the outer material?  Have you ever thought about it?    If you have a lump of clay in your hand, is there any value for it? But when the lump of clay is made into a cup, you give value for the space. And that value will never diminish. The purpose of the space is always served. Whether it is a stainless steel glass, stainless steel cup, or glass, or china clay, or silver cup, the space inside the cup is what really serves, isn´t it? That is what really matters. Space can never lose its value. So what is precious?    Whatever you think is very precious is very costly, very expensive. The most expensive things are least used! They´re least useful.  How do you put value on something - by its utility, or by its rareness of availability? If something is available in plenty, you don´t value it more. Why do you value gold so much, or diamonds so much, or any precious stones so much? It is because they are not easily available. If diamond is just found on all over the street or if the mountains are just diamonds, everywhere, who would value diamonds, right? So what is more valuable? It is that which is useful. Take, for example, iron and gold. Gold is more expensive and iron is  basically essential and useful. Without iron, you will collapse.Your body needs iron every second to survive. Iron is valuable, because it  is the most useful thing. And whatever is most useful, what is most valuable for your life is available in plenty.    Water is most essential in life. You value water, air etc which are so essential in life, and they´re available in plenty. Isn´t it? Now which is precious - iron or gold? You can live without gold, but you cannot live without iron. We have a whole wrong system of evaluation in the world! We value useless things a lot.    A piece of stone, red, or yellow, or pink, or whatever, is very rarely available and so we want it even if it is so expensive! We put all our earnings, all our money into it. But that is not essential to life at all! To have that diamond, emerald or jade etc, people breathe in all the polluted air all the time, work day and night, earn a lot of money, and put them in the jewellery. Is this not utter foolishness? (Refer What is ignorance? - Sri Sri to know the ignorance/foolishne ss of our mind ).   What is most precious, your health, you are destroying.  You´re not breathing in good air, but you are buying diamond and what not... those precious stones!    This is lack of education! -Sri Sri  Jai Gurudev!