A Few Cups of Tea That Touched Many Souls

--by mariette, posted Nov 28, 2009

Last week, I witnessed a beautiful act of kindness. Actually, I witnessed a million over the ten days spent in the Kutch region of Gujarat, India and chose to share this one with you as a testament of the powerful vibration of giving.

I traveled to Kutch with Jayesh-bhai, the founder of Manav Sadhna NGO, two Manav Sadhna staff – Jagat and Bhaskar – and some friends. On our return to Ahmedabad, we stopped for 'chai' (Indian Tea) at a truck stop. The chai was absolutely delicious and we reordered more two times, with regular exclamations of its quality to the servers and cashier. When it came time to pay, the cashier would not take our money. After some forced attempts to pay, Jagat accepted the gift of the chai, took back the money, thanked him and asked the cashier for his phone number. Jagat promised to call the cashier when he had paid the gift forward to someone else.

What a powerful way of engaging people in paying forward and seeing the impactful ripple effect of their actions! Two days later, Jagat called the cashier to tell him that, with the money, Jagat had purchased 5 bottles of hair oil for a child he had met in the slum that had run out. I can only imagine how the cashier now sees his cups of chai.

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Posted by mariette
Nov 28, 2009
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FairyBubbles wrote: That is so wonderful - there are such beautiful people in this world.

sethi wrote: Kindness is what makes the world go around .

helpinghand wrote: Very nice gesture.Thanks for sharing.

HornetzSting9 wrote: great job. very well written. thanks for sharing your story! :)

luckyman wrote: Thanks mariette,
It was a really beautiful story!

May god bless you!

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