What brings a tear of joy to your eye?

The process of laughing and crying continues every day in life. Whenever we are very happy, many times tears automatically flow from our eyes while laughing which people also call tears of joy. But sometimes such situations occur which make us emotional. In such a situation, when tears of joy come out while crying, they have no value. I am telling you such an incident, after reading which, perhaps tears of joy will come in your eyes too.

One day I was sitting at the station waiting for the train. A gentleman was also waiting sitting next to me. Just then a shoe polisher came and said, Sir! Shall I polish your boots? Seeing his pitiful face, he extended his shoes forward and said, “Take them, but polish them properly.” The boy started working but he did not have the energy like the other polishers. He said, what kind of sloppy work do you do? Move your hands quickly! That boy remained silent. Meanwhile another boy came. He immediately pushed this boy aside and himself started working quickly. The first one stood aside like a mute. The second one polished the shoes. Whom should I pay? Thinking about this, he put his hand in his pocket. He thought that now there will be a fight or scuffle between these two for the money. Then he thought, “The one who did the work should get the money.” So he gave the money to the boy who came later. He took the money but kept it on the palm of the first boy.  He patted his back lovingly and went away. The man kept looking at him with astonished eyes. He immediately called the boy back and asked “What is this?” The boy said, “Sir! He fell from a moving train three months back. His hands and legs were badly injured. By God’s grace the poor fellow survived, otherwise what would have happened to his old mother and sisters, he is very self-respecting… he cannot beg…!” Then pausing a bit he said, “Sir! Here we have a group of shoe polishers and in it there is a God like uncle of all of us, whom everyone calls god uncle’. He goes to satsangs and keeps telling us about God’s story’s. It was he who suggested that ‘Friends!  So what if he cannot work with the same enthusiasm as before? God has given all of us an opportunity to show active interest, spirit of sacrifice, affection, sympathy and unity towards our companion. Just as the back, stomach, face, hands, feet look different but are parts of the same body, similarly we all look different from the body but are one soul! We are all one. All of us living at the station decided together that we will give him the income from polishing one pair of our shoes every day and will also help him in his work whenever needed.

This incident brought tears of joy to my eyes. Whenever I see such incidents, I cannot stop myself. And knowingly or unknowingly I have seen many such incidents when I cried a lot and after that God made me laugh.