The Golden Pot - Short Motivational Story (Honesty is the best policy)

 

The Golden Plate [Greed and Honesty] Once upon a time in a place called Seri, there were two salesmen of pots and pans and hand-made trinkets. They agreed to divide the town between them. After one had gone through his area, it was all right for the other to try and sell where the first had already been. One day, while one of them was coming down a street, a poor little girl saw him and asked her grandmother to buy her a bracelet. The old grandmother replied, "How can we poor people buy bracelets?" The little girl said, "Since we don't have any money, we can give our black sooty old plate." The old woman agreed to give it a try, so she invited the dealer inside. She asked, "We have an old plate, can we trade it for a bracelet?" The man took it and, while examining it, happened to scratch the bottom of it. To his surprise, he saw that underneath the black soot, it was a golden plate! He decided to deceive them. He said, "This is not worth even one bracelet. There's no value in this. I don't want it!" He left, thinking he would return later when they would accept even less for the plate. Meanwhile the other salesman, after finishing in his part of town, followed the first. He ended up at the same house. Again, the poor little girl begged her grandmother to trade the old plate for a bracelet. So, she invited him in and offered to trade the same black sooty old plate for one bracelet. When he examined it, he too saw that it was pure gold under the grime. He said to the old woman, "All my goods and all my money together are not worth as much as this rich golden plate!" The old lady was shocked at this discovery, but now she knew that he was indeed a good and honest fellow. So, she said she would be glad to accept whatever he could trade for it. The salesman said, "I'll give you all my pots and pans and trinkets, plus all my money, if you will let me keep just eight coins and my balancing scale, with its cover to put the golden plate in." They made the trade. He went down to the river, where he paid the eight coins to the ferry man to take him across. By now the greedy salesman returned to the old lady and said that he had changed his mind and was willing to offer a few cents, but not one of his bracelets, for the useless black sooty old plate. The old woman then calmly told him of the trade she had just made with the honest salesman. The greedy salesman was saddened for losing the golden plate that must be worth a hundred thousand. So, he asked the woman, "Which way did he go?" She told him the direction. He ran down to the river. From the riverside he saw the honest salesman still crossing over on the ferry boat. He shouted to the ferry man, "Come back!" But the good merchant told him to keep on going to the other side, and that's what he did. Seeing that he could do nothing, the greedy salesman had a heart attack and died on the spot! The moral is: "Honesty is the best policy." Youtube video link of this story For more such videos please subscribe our channel