"Ah, I am grateful," and tears well up in my eyes.

For no particular reason, tears simply come out.

Often, in this kind of story, people bring up "reasons," but I think that "reasons are not necessary for gratitude."

People ask for reasons, so I am talking about the situation at that time, but fundamentally, there are no reasons for gratitude.

If you really want to say a reason, you have to bring up spirituality, which is the "Sat Cit Ananda" of Vedanta, where Sat = existence, Cit = consciousness, and Ananda = bliss, and that would be the reason.

If I were to put it that way, it is because the existence of consciousness is filled within oneself or the surrounding space, which leads to bliss, and because one is filled with bliss, feelings of gratitude arise, and at the same time, tears come out.

Simply saying that tears come out because of gratitude is insufficient; it is a state where one is filled, so bliss overflows, feelings of gratitude well up, and that is why tears come out.

If you were to say that metaphorically, it would be "Ah, I am grateful," and at the same time, tears would come out.

Simply saying "thank you" and shedding tears is not enough, but it is because one is filled that tears come out and feelings of gratitude naturally arise, which is what Vedanta calls "Sat Cit Ananda."

This kind of story is often talked about as a philosophy of yoga, and it is often talked about as a theoretical story separated from actual practice, but I think it is a story that is deeply connected to actual practice.

Sometimes, similar things are also talked about as mysterious and esoteric stories of yoga, like legends, but this kind of story is not a fantasy detached from reality, but rather a very realistic and essential matter.

If you were to put it into words, it would be something like that, but even if you are told that, you might just say "hmm" and ignore it, but rather than that, for Japanese people, gratitude is close at hand, so a story like "Ah, I am grateful," and tears come out is more intuitively understandable than such a logical story.

In reality, these stories are saying the same thing, but the way of expression is different, so they feel like completely different things, but in reality, they are the same.

You can explain it like that, but rather than that, I think that what is gratitude is directly feeling filled and being deeply moved to say "Ah, I am grateful," and tears come out.

It is possible to feel gratitude without any particular reason, and if you were to explicitly say the reason for that, it would be Sat Cit Ananda, which means that existence and consciousness are filled, leading to bliss.

If you can feel this kind of consciousness in your daily life, that is good, but if you are doing it technically, it would be meditation. By meditating and feeling gratitude to the point where tears come out, you can feel that your own existence is gradually approaching a higher level.