prasada to poor people

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There is saying that if someone is hungry, it is difficult to preach to him.

First the stomach must be full, then people can hear the message of the Lord

and chant the holy name. Tears came on Srila Prabhupada's eyes in Mayapura

when he saw small children fighting with dogs to get food. And that was the

beginning of Food for Life Program in ISKCON. Reaching out to the

underpriviledge in the form of prasad distribution is welfare work that will

eventually translate into actual preaching of Krishna consciousness. Though

we are not interested in mundane welfare work, but food for life

distribution is not the same category as mundane welfare work. The problem

we have today is people often exploit this. People exploit food for life

program by raising lots of money that are meant for distribution of food to

the poor, but instead use it for their own gratification.