What is virtues’s value

This story tells, what is virtues’s value. There was businessman, the more charitable he was; He donated everything he had in a yagya; Now he did not even have money left to run the family.

What is  virtues’s value

What is  virtues's value

The merchant’s wife suggested that a big Seth lived in the neighboring town; He buys the virtues of others.

You go to them and sell some of your virtues and get some money, so that the business can start again.

The merchant had absolutely no desire to sell virtue; But under the pressure of his wife and the concern of the children, he agreed to sell the virtue; The wife made four rotis and gave them to eat on the way.

Merchant

While walking, the merchant reached near the city where Seth, the buyer of virtue, lived. He was hungry. Before entering the city he thought to have a meal; As soon as he took out the loaves, a bitch stood up with her three young born immediately.

Bitch

The bitch gave birth to the children in the forest. It was a rainy day and the children were small; So she could not leave them and go to the city; The merchant felt pity. He gave a bread to the bitch to eat; The bitch licked the bread in the blink of an eye but she was still panting with hunger.

Merchant (What is virtues’s value)

The merchant fed the second bread, then the third and then all the four breads to the bitch. He himself reached Seth after drinking only water.

The merchant told Seth that he had come to sell his virtue; Seth was busy. He said come in the evening.

In the afternoon Seth went home for lunch; And he told his wife that a merchant had come to sell his virtues; Which virtue should I buy from him?

Seth’s wife

Seth’s wife was very pious and perfect; He carefully observed that today the merchant has fed bread to the bitch.

What is today’s virtues’s value virtue

She told her husband to buy her today’s virtue which she earned by feeding bread to an animal; That is his best virtue ever.
The merchant came again in the evening to sell his virtue.

Seth said – I want to take the virtue of the yagya you have performed today. The businessman started laughing; He said that if I had money for Yagya, would I have come to you to sell virtue!

Seth said that today you have given food to a hungry animal; and has protected the lives of her children; I want that virtue. The merchant agreed to sell that virtue; Seth said that in return for that virtue, he would give diamonds and pearls equal to the weight of four loaves of bread to the merchant.

Four loaves

Four rotis were made and placed in one pan of the balance. In the second pan, Seth kept diamonds and jewels in a bundle. The pan did not even move. Another bundle was called for. Still the pan did not move.

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When the pan did not budge even after keeping many bundles, the businessman said – Sethji, I have changed my mind. I don’t want to sell virtue anymore.

Merchant return to home

The merchant went towards his house empty handed. He was afraid that as soon as he entered the house, a quarrel might start with his wife.

From where he had put breads to the bitch, he picked up some pebbles and kept them together and tied the knot.

On reaching home, the wife asked how much money was received by selling virtue, then she showed the bag and said that it will be opened only at night after the meal. After this he went to the village to ask for some loan.

Here, since his wife had seen the bag, she was losing patience. She opened the bag as soon as her husband left. Her eyes were teary. The bag was full of diamonds and jewels.

Merchant at the home

When the merchant returned home, his wife asked who gave such a good price for the virtues? Where did so many diamonds and jewels come from?

The businessman suspected that the wife was not taunting knowing the whole secret, but it was not visible from the brightness of her face.

Merchant

The merchant said – Show me where are the diamonds and jewels. The wife brought the bundle and turned it in front of him. Precious gems fell from it.

The businessman was surprised. Then he told the whole thing to his wife. The wife regretted that she forced her husband to sell virtue in distress.

Both of them decided that they would take some part out of it and start the business. By mixing the money received from business in this, we will invest it in public welfare.

What is virtues’s value virtue

God tests you. In the examination, he tests the same quality of yours which you are proud of. If you pass the test, then God gives that quality as a boon in you forever.

If he does not pass the test, then God starts looking for someone else who is capable of that quality.

That’s why even in times of adversity, one should walk on the right path by keeping faith in God. Your pebbles and stones can also be priceless gems.