Aiding the poor, hungry victims of the Orissa cyclone

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> So I am hopeful that if we can

> widely distribute free foodstuffs to the people of India, by giving it out

> at our centers as well as by travelling parties to villages, we will win

> over the whole country and the whole world by this activity on Krsna's

> behalf.

 

> "Regarding food distribution, they may come to take at our Temple. With

> travelling sankirtana we can distribute wherever we go, but not to the

> emergency spot, like that."

>

> --letter to Jayapataka Swami, 28 September 1976

 

I don't any see any contradiction in the quotes of Prabhupada posted by HH

Jayadvaita Maharaja and Mukunda Madhava Prabhu because both say that

prasadam should be distributed in India from our temples & travelling

sankirtana parties but not that we go to the emergency spot and do it.

One of the reasons according to me why Prabhupada may have said this is

because if we rush to the emergency spot it makes ISKCON look like a relief

organization or something.

 

Ofcourse that leaves the room open for ISKCON Bubhaneshwar to distribute

prasadam widely to the affected people visiting the temple or around the

temple and maybe other temples can send money for this kind of prasadam

distribution from the Bhubaneshwar temple itself. Not that the Bhubaneshwar

temple devotees have to go to the cyclone hit areas and do it. It seems from

the quotes that this is the thing which Prabhupada may not have liked.

I think the more we churn the more nectar comes out.

 

Your insignificant servant,

Nayana-ranjana das