Why are diamonds expensive? || Acharya Prashant

Full video: The One thing we forget about money || Acharya Prashant

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00:00why do most people rush after diamonds or rings or necklaces or precious stones or whatever

00:07it's a subjective decision right and so what happens therefore the price of a stone rises

00:15greatly and you work very hard to one day to come to a situation when you'll be able to afford that

00:23stone and it's just a stone now does the stone intrinsically carry that much value does the stone

00:30have something inside of itself something innate to it that is very valuable hardly anything it's

00:37your own subjective value system it's your own conditioning that's telling you that you must

00:42have that stone and to have that stone you'll hop jobs you may even take a loan you may save for a

00:49long time so that ultimately you may have that stone right spirituality tells you what exactly is

00:56valuable in life