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the jewel merchant

The jewel is his smile ,his contentment in life, theres somethig mystically beautiful about this human who is at peace and happy within. the famous saying when ...
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The jewel is his smile ,his contentment in life, theres somethig mystically beautiful about this human who is at peace and happy within. the famous saying when the great Alexander visited india In Taxila,he met some members of the Indian sect of Wise Men whose practice it is to go naked, and he so much admired their powers of endurance that the fancy took him to have one of them in his personal train. The oldest man among them, whose name was Dandamis (the others were his pupils), refused either to join Alexander himself or to permit any of his pupils to do so.

"If you, my lord," he is said to have replied, "are the son of god, why - so am I. I want nothing from you, for what I have suffices. I perceive, moreover, that the men you lead get no good from their world-wide wandering over land and sea, and that of their many travels there will be no end. I desire nothing that you can give me; I fear no exclusion from any blessings which may perhaps be yours.

India, with the fruits of her soil in due season, is enough for me while I live; and when I die, I shall be rid of my poor body - my unseemly housemate."

These words convinced Alexander that Dandamis was, in a true sense, a free man. So he made no attempt to compel him.

in the same way i was compelled not to ask him of his life story and just asked for a photograph to always remind me of a free contented man
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