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खुशहाली का कारण

जापान के टोक्यो शहर के निकट एक कस्बा अपनी खुशहाली के लिए प्रसिद्ध था | एक बार एक व्यक्ति उस कसबे की खुशहाली का कारण जानने के लिए सुबह -सुबह वहाँ पहुंचा | कस्बे में घुसते ही उसे एक कॉफ़ी -शॉप दिखायी दी।उसने मन ही मन सोचा कि मैं यहाँ बैठ कर चुप -चाप लोगों को देखता हूँ , और वह धीरे - धीरे आगे बढ़ते हुए शॉप के अंदर लगी एक कुर्सी पर जा कर बैठ गया |
कॉफ़ी-शॉप शहर के रेस्टोरेंटस की तरह ही थी ,पर वहाँ उसे लोगों का व्यवहार कुछ अजीब लगा |
एक आदमी शॉप में आया और उसने दो कॉफ़ी के पैसे देते हुए कहा , “ दो कप कॉफ़ी , एक मेरे लिए और एक उस दीवार पर। ”
व्यक्ति दीवार की तरफ देखनेलगा लेकिन उसे वहाँ कोई नज़र नहीं आया ,पर फिर भी उस आदमी को कॉफ़ी देने के बाद वेटर दीवार के पास गया और उस पर कागज़ का एक टुकड़ा चिपका दिया , जिसपर “एक कप कॉफ़ी ” लिखा था |
व्यक्ति समझ नहीं पाया कि आखिर माजरा क्या है . उसने सोचा कि कुछ देर और बैठता हूँ ,और समझने की कोशिश करता हूँ |
थोड़ी देर बाद एक गरीब मजदूर वहाँ आया , उसके कपड़े फटे -पुराने थे पर फिर भी वह पुरे आत्म -विश्वास के साथ शॉप में घुसा और आराम से एक कुर्सी पर बैठ गया |
व्यक्ति सोच रहा था कि एक मजदूर के लिए कॉफ़ी पर इतने पैसे बर्वाद करना कोई समझदारी नहीं है …
तभी वेटर मजदूर के पास आर्डर लेने पंहुचा .“ सर , आपका आर्डर प्लीज !”, वेटर बोला |
“ दीवार से एक कप कॉफ़ी .” , मजदूर ने जवाब दिया |
वेटर ने मजदूर से बिना पैसे लिए एक कप कॉफ़ी दी और दीवार पर लगी ढेर सारे कागज के टुकड़ों में से “एक कप कॉफ़ी ” लिखा एक टुकड़ा निकाल कर डस्टबिन में पफेंक दिया |
व्यक्ति को अब सारी बात समझ आ गयी थी |कसबे के लोगों का ज़रूरतमंदों के प्रति यह रवैया देखकर वह भाव- विभोर हो गया … उसे लगा , सचमुच लोगों ने मदद का कितना अच्छा तरीका निकाला है जहां एक गरीब मजदूर भी बिना अपना आत्मसम्मान कम किये एक अच्छी सी कॉफ़ी -शॉप में खाने -पीने का आनंद ले सकता है | अब वह कसबे की खुशहाली का कारण जान चुका था और इन्ही विचारों के साथ वापस अपने शहर लौट गया | more  

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Amazing story - very relevant to our times. Recently I heard a story about Singapore which is also a pluralistic society like ours - communal tensions are relatively unheard of. How Singapore manages it ? There people from different religions co-exist peacefully - apparently, the government encourages cross racial/ cross religion marriages so that people are sensitive to other religions and communal tensions do not flare up on trivial issues. Religious beliefs are very personal to oneself and ideally there should not be a need to bring these to the streets. Our belief in god almighty need to be strong enough such that we do not get maneuvered into acts of violence when we hear inciting 'call to action' speeches. We need to bring back faith in 'this universe is our family'. more  
Dear members the big and root cause of INDIA is corruption. Corruption can not be solved by anyway until all human being are taking it as serious as diseases in our body. It should be deeply thought by all people where he is paid worker and home maker or politician/baboos. Everyone should be made responsible for their work and this would be only possible by strict compliance of laws. more  
Simillar story and practice being followed perhaps in US also and someone had posted it or it was on tweets or News paper also. I do not remember exactly. But it is a wonderful idea for contributing to the welfare of poors. more  
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