The disciple asked the teacher. How to recognize a wise man, an incarnation of God?
Guru said, I will tell you a story.
Once upon a time there was a rich jeweler. His servant took a diamond one day and asked him what it was worth.
The jeweler said. Let me tell you a way to find out the right price for it.
You must take this diamond and go to the bazaar and ask each of the merchants what price it will fetch. You must ask each one and tell me the information. First ask the eggplant seller.
The servant immediately asked the eggplant seller what he would get for the diamond.
He said looking the diamond back and forth. I will give it 18 kg of eggplant.
The servant asked.. Can you give me 20 kg..
The eggplant seller said, I said 18 kg of eggplant is too much. If you can't, then give it to someone else.. After hearing this, Bhritya took the diamond back and went to Prabhu and told what had happened.
Guru said. Now you take this and show it to a cloth merchant and ask what you can get.
The servant immediately went to the cloth merchant and showed him the diamond and asked what price he would pay. The cloth merchant looked carefully at the diamond and said. Diamond is good. I will pay Rs 900 for it. Immediately the servant asked him to give at least 1000 rupees. Hearing that the cloth merchant said that he could not give even a single penny more, the servant with the diamond went to the lord and settled the matter.
Prabhu said.
Now you go to a jeweler in the market and ask what price this diamond will fetch.
The servant went straight to the jeweler and showed him the diamond and asked what price he would get.
As soon as he saw the diamond, the jeweler happily bought it and said.
I will pay Rs 1 lakh for this.
Guru said.
Only a jeweler knows the right price of a diamond.
The eggplant seller and the cloth seller do not know the value of the diamond.
Not everyone can know or understand God incarnate, the wise man. Some may think of him as an ordinary human being, some as a madman, and some as a great man. Only the best devotees and the wise can realize it completely.