Hotel Prabhupada - Non-Vegetarian!?

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March 30, 2003 VNN7943

Here is the fax number of the Hotel Prabhupada if anyone wants to

send a letter and request the owner to change the name of his hotel

or to do away with the non-veg restaurant on the premises.

 

Hotel Prabhupada: (06752) 221118

Hotel Prabhupada - Non-Vegetarian

 

BY TARADEVI DASI

 

INDIA, Mar 30 (VNN) —

After the wonderful Gour Purnima utsava at Shri Gaudiya Math in Shri

Mayapur Dham we went to Shri Kshetra, Jagannatha Puri to take darshan

of the Lord of the Universe and of the holy places associated with

Shri Chaitanyadev and His Nitya-parshads.

 

One evening after leaving the Shri Samadhi Mandir of Nam Acharya

Haridas Thakura mother and I took a pleasant walk along the sea

shore. After a distance or so we saw a group of hotels facing the sea

and in the middle was a sign that read "Hotel Prabhupada." As we

approach the large building I said to mother that it must be an

ISKCON guesthouse or hotel because no follower of Shri Prabhupada

Bhaktisiddhanta would name a hotel after our founder-acharya.

 

As we approached near to the entrance we saw yet another sign board

that read, Hotel Prabhupada Non-Veg. For a moment I thought I was

dreaming until mother remarked, "What is this non-sense,- non-veg!"

and pulled my hand to go away. But I stopped and said we should go in

and see what this is all about. It looked like a nice hotel. Mother

never goes in a non-veg establishment and so she waited outside.

 

When I entered the lobby of the hotel I saw a life size murti of

ISKCON founder-acharya Shrila Swami Maharaja Prabhupada. He held a

japa bag in his right hand and his eyes were turned upwards. He did

not look very happy! What this place was took me sometime to figure

out. It was not an ISKCON establishment although I was informed that

the proprietor was a life member of ISKCON. I took a few pictures

otherwise who would believe that such an establishment could exist.

 

First a McDonald's in Braja and now a Hotel Prabhupada Non-Veg in

Puri. What next?

 

I honestly felt that not only the followers of Swami Maharaja but all

the members of the disciplic succession of Shri Prabhupada

Bhaktisiddhanta would feel offended to see a non-veg hotel in the

name of "Prabhupada."

 

Here is the fax number of the Hotel Prabhupada if anyone wants to

send a letter and request the owner to change the name of his hotel

or to do away with the non-veg restaurant on the premises.

 

Hotel Prabhupada: (06752) 221118

 

Taradevi dasi (tarachoudry)