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Grandmother clutched the newspaper showing Keeladi's ancient pottery. "Look," she whispered, "our ancestors wrote here." Her grandson scrolled through comments debating the excavation's worth, arguments about cash and networks obscuring the beauty. That evening, she played Swami Paramarthananda's discourse, his voice threading wisdom through generations like unbroken clay. "Some things transcend currency," he'd said once. The boy finally understood, setting his phone down. Together they traced the pottery's patterns, feeling history pulse beneath their fingers. In that moment, expensive became meaningless. They weren't just viewing artifacts; they were becoming custodians of something sacred, something their community had guarded for millennia, something no algorithm could truly quantify or diminish.