THREE QUESTIONS.

King Bhoja was the patron of Kalidas, a wise and learned poet of India. The King's court also had many other learned men. The King always took the advice of these men to impose just rule in his kingdom.
One day a pundit (learned man) came to his court. He had three questions to which he was trying to find an answer.
The first question: "When does the Earth laugh?"
The second question: " When does the Earth weep?"
The third question: When does the Earth feel happy?"
The king looked at his galaxy of pundits and the pundits were all puzzled, as they did not know what to say, as the questions seemed irrelevant and strange to them.
The King looked towards Kalidas, and Kalidas knowing that he King expected an answer from him rose to his feet and said:

'Your majesty, The stingy and miserly people of this earth believe that money is God. They do not eat well. They do not dress well. They never serve any charitable cause even in the house of God they do not put don a single paisa (penny). They hoard their money, forgetting that money was discovered by man to be used as a commodity for the good of society. In an attempt to keep their wealth safe they bury their money deep in the earth.
This is when the earth laughs because she knows that these people, the fools that they are, do not under stand that how foolish they are."

The answer to the second question is, "When thieves, robbers, bandits and sinners roam this earth and cause untold misery to the mother earth's other children, she weeps because she grieves for such men."

The answer to the third question is, 'There are also people on this earth who help the needy and rejoice at other people's happiness. They always speak the truth, do righteous deeds and believe in God and God's sayings. When the earth sees these men she rejoices."