~ Karma Kitchen, USA : A unique Restaurant where you pay $0 (Zero) bill

One of its kind restaurant  where you get $ 0 bill with a note:  “Your meal was a gift from someone who came before you. To keep the chain of gifts alive, we invite you to pay it forward for those dine after you”. So, technically your bill is already paid by some unknown visitor before and you have to pay for future unknown guest, just out of Generosity!! Also, there is no Price on Menu card, you can order what you want and you get “$0” (zero) dollar bill. Then you can pay what you feel is right value (in terms of money) for your food!  Another interesting thing is that food is prepared and served by volunteers who gives service for FREE (without any salary)! So, imagine unique scene where waiter/staff do not get salary and customer gets zero dollar bill  😀

Viral and Pavi Mehta, American-Indian couple, initiated this idea at Taste of Himalayas Restaurant,  Berkley , California. This Karma concept meal is served on Sunday. As their  website  says ‘it’s a volunteer-driven experiment in generosity’. Initiative is to spread Generosity and Togetherness among people!

What!!! But, how it works? See these clips below:

Karma Kitchen Videos

Talk about Karma Kitchen project at TED talk by Mr. Nipun Mehta – Designing For Generosity- TEDxBerkeley

Related links:

• Karma Kitchen @ Facebook
• Karma Kitchen@ Twitter

image credit: “en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vegetarian_Andhra_Meal.jpg”

Sources: Karma Kitchen website, TEDx talk, youtube, Darshan America, Google search, Facebook, Twitter, and other hyperlinks mentioned in the post.

~ “Laws of Karma” Quotes

Karma: 

• No need for Revenge. Just sit back & wait. Those who hurt you will eventually Screw up themselves & if you’re lucky, God will let you watch!

•  Welcome to Karma Cafe – there are no menus here , you’ll be served what you deserved!

• If you loose MONEY, you loose NOTHING…If you loose HEALTH you loose SOMETHING…But, if you loose CHARACTER, you loose EVERYTHING!! 

• The universal law states that nothing happens by chance or outside the Universal Laws. Every action has a reaction or consequence and we “reap what we have sown”

• “Whatever good things we build, end up building us…If you go to work on your Goals, your Goals will go to work on you..If you go to work on your Plan, your Plan will go to work on you”

• Treat others same way you would like to be treated!

•  What goes around comes around

•  Keep your circle Positive

• Your today’s Action/Decision decides your Destiny/Future

Krishna Telling ‘Bhagvad Gita’ To Arjuna (Laws of Dharma & Karma)

Understand what is Karma

Following articles will help to understand  “Karma” in deep.

Karma in Hinduism:

• ISKCON- The Law of Karma 
• Karma-  History, Western thoughts, Beyond Karma &  importance in today’s life
• Karma and Psychology
• Karma, Pre-destination and Freewill
• Three types of Karma
• BBC- Meaning of Karma, Dharma, Atma (Soul),etc
• Wikipedia- Karma in Hinduism 
• Yahoo – Use of Karma in Hinduism and Buddism

Karma in Buddhism:

• Understanding Karma (Buddhism way)
• Wikipedia – Karma in Buddhism
• Buddhism way of  understanding Karma 
• Karma as per Buddhism

 My Other related posts on Karma:

• Laws of Karma : How it Works
• Discussion and Solutions to do good Karma
• What should be your Karma : Answers to find some of interesting questions in life
• The real Heroes : An inspiration to find Purpose of Life

Watch this space for more interesting and influential Karma quotes.

Image credit: “en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bhagvad_Gita.jpg”

Sources: Google search, Wikipedia and other links mentioned in the post.

~ Laws of Karma (Good Deeds/Action): How it works!

This is a beautiful video where a little girl helps a woman unconditionally and cycle of Karma / Good deeds starts rolling…. Her small help to woman triggers many incidences which end up getting that little girl her dues but in different form!

There are many ways to interpret this video; some may call it power of smile, help, love, etc. But actually this is how Laws of Karma works! Karma principle from Bhagavad Gita is one of the basic pillars of Hinduism way of life.  Hinduism believes one’s present is a result of his/her past Karma and one can create good future by doing positive Karma/Things/Deeds/Actions.

One should always focus on doing good deeds/things/ Karma without thinking about any selfish gains/outcomes. You will automatically get your dues in future which may not be exactly what you want (person always has greed about money, power, fame, etc materialistic things) but may be in different forms you never expected.

Only if one has that instinct or sense he/she would be able to understand this whole cycle of Karma! Same thing applies to bad karma or bad things one spreads around. They also say….…as you sow, so shall you reap!!

This nice video shows, if we all start doing good Karma and spread unconditional love, we would make world a happy and better place to live!

Law of Karma – What you Sow; so shall you reap

Law of Karma – What you Sow, so shall you reap

P.S. I don’t understand the language so could not figure out the origin country of this clip. I came across to this via YouTube clip search. But, you can connect to it as feelings and emotions are same worldwide!

 Sources: YouTube, Google search, Wikipedia, and other links in the post.