Food for Life

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HK Susarla wrote (Digest Number 1493):

 

> I often see it being quoted in Food for Life brochures how Srila

> Prabhupada had supposedly wanted that no one should go hungry within

> 10 miles of ISKCON temples. In retrospect, I am wondering if this

> quote is accurate. I don't have the exact quote, but if you know what

> I am talking about, do you have any information on it?

 

Here are notes from HH Jayadvaita Swami's 'Food for Death' seminar:

 

"No one within a 10-mile radius should go hungry."

We've heard the story of how Srila Prabhupada saw a child taking food from

the garbage, and, moved to tears, said we must feed them.

And so the famous quotation.

Sometimes I've read that the story and quotation are in SPL.

In fact they're not. I searched the entire Folio Vedabase-including SPL--for

"mile,miles,kilometer,kilometers," and "garbage." Nothing. "Hungry

child,hungry children,starving child,starving children." No story.

Still, I believe the story is true. I think perhaps I read it in one of

Syamasundara's newsletters when he was Srila Prabhupada's secretary.

 

In the notes for the FFD seminar (which is sent in a separate text as an

attached file) Jayadvaita Swami establishes that Srila Prabhupada wanted

prasada distribution principally at ISKCON temples.

[Guest guest]

So, I am a little confused.is the ISKCON Food For Life organization /

program not a program that was approved by Srila Prabhupada and the GBC

after His passing? If it is not, how can they keep the ISKCON affiliation?

 

 

 

If it is, than why are there seminar's like 'Food for Death', and quotes

showing that FFL is not authorized?

 

 

 

Krishna

 

 

 

 

 

"Food for Life as the name suggests is a unique project for bringing food

and life to the needy of the world through the liberal distribution of

karma-free vegetarian meals. The project started in 1974 when an elderly

Indian swami, Srila Prabhupada, asked his followers to not allow anyone

within a ten mile radius of the temple to go hungry. The program grew

quickly and now operates in over 60 countries worldwide."

 

 

 

"Food for Life is the humanitarian service of the International Society for

Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), a branch of Vaisnava Hinduism, otherwise

known as the Hare Krishna movement."

 

 

 

(From Food For Life website: http://www.ffl.org/html/background.html)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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achintya [achintya] On Behalf

Of Bhakti Vikasa Swami

Thursday, April 28, 2005 9:27 PM

achintya

Food for Life

 

 

 

HK Susarla wrote (Digest Number 1493):

 

> I often see it being quoted in Food for Life brochures how Srila

> Prabhupada had supposedly wanted that no one should go hungry within

> 10 miles of ISKCON temples. In retrospect, I am wondering if this

> quote is accurate. I don't have the exact quote, but if you know what

> I am talking about, do you have any information on it?

 

Here are notes from HH Jayadvaita Swami's 'Food for Death' seminar:

 

"No one within a 10-mile radius should go hungry."

We've heard the story of how Srila Prabhupada saw a child taking food from

the garbage, and, moved to tears, said we must feed them.

And so the famous quotation.

Sometimes I've read that the story and quotation are in SPL.

In fact they're not. I searched the entire Folio Vedabase-including SPL--for

"mile,miles,kilometer,kilometers," and "garbage." Nothing. "Hungry

child,hungry children,starving child,starving children." No story.

Still, I believe the story is true. I think perhaps I read it in one of

Syamasundara's newsletters when he was Srila Prabhupada's secretary.

 

In the notes for the FFD seminar (which is sent in a separate text as an

attached file) Jayadvaita Swami establishes that Srila Prabhupada wanted

prasada distribution principally at ISKCON temples.

 

 

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