Feeding 19,000 Kids Daily: Arms Length ki jaya!

[Guest guest]

More like yojanas length ki jaya! (in some cases)

"Let the dead bury the dead." JC

Let the couch potatoes backpat the couch potatoes.

Hold the french fries please.

Better to bake than half-bake.

1) A very famous Polish horse trainer taught us:

"For true progress, stay far from the boss, close to

the kitchen."

2) Usually we Kapi-tala Capitalists practice just the

opposite:

"Upward Licking, Downward Kicking" aka "Brown Nose

SampradAya"

Noriega, Hussain, Bin Laden... followed the latter

(#2).

After decades of loyalty, Bushmasters '41 & 43' gave

them 'lucrative' screen roles to choose from:

Villain, Scapegoat, Boogyman...

NSA's Bierden told Dan Rather on videotape:

"If we didn't have an Osama we'd invent one."

This is all related, believe me.

After reading RaghunAth's message, who'd not opt for

the former (#1)?

 

--- "Raghunata (John) Anudasa" <raghu (AT) roopa (DOT) org>

wrote:

> Feeding 19,000 Kids Daily vs. Couch Potato's Talking

> While many senior devotees talk endlessly if such

> programs are even

> proper, Madhu simply goes off and feeds 19,000

> school kids---DAILY.

> (Article below) Madhu's success in S. India and lack

> of participation

> from other god brothers may prove a significant and

> valid reason for

> Madhu keeping ISKCON/GBC at arms length.

>

> I can't help but wonder if these talks (about not

> feeding the poor) are

> at best frivolous. Let's say it was clearly

> demonstrated that Prabhupada

> wanted and demanded prasadam programs for the poor.

> Let's also say they

> proved a powerful preaching tool as demonstrated by

> Madhu. It appears

> most of those on this conference would still fail to

> provide a Food for

> Life program. These talks therefore seem slanted

> towards discounting

> such prasadam programs as a means to excuse their

> own failings to

> provide this invaluable service.

>

> It reminds me of Prabhupada's god brothers who sat

> on the side lines

> critiquing the legitimacy of Prabhupada's programs

> and devotees. It did

> not occurred to them to go and assist Prabhupada,

> learn from him or go

> off and do the same. Maybe we should consider

> learning from Madhu, if

> not helping him or trying something similar.

>

> Fighting words indeed. If you feel I am

> inappropriate, well good, please

> prove me wrong and go out and give some prasadam to

> your neighbors,

> nearby college campus etc. I did and do. As much as

> 20% of our income on

> occasion can go towards prasadam distribution. We

> have so little money

> and $30,000 credit card debt. Still, we provide some

> prasadam program. I

> don't know how devotees can not.

>

> I'm a little exasperated for in my own experience

> those who discounted

> the importance of prasadam (for others) always have

> customized or first

> class arrangements for their own eating. To me,

> there seems to be a

> strong correlation between being heartless or self

> centered and being

> tight fisted about prasadam. I have not been proven

> wrong yet. Just a

> thought.

>

> Raghu

>

>

> GBC.Unmoderated (AT) pamho (DOT) net

> [GBC.Unmoderated (AT) pamho (DOT) net] On

> Behalf Of Jahnava Nitai (das) (Mysore - IN)

> Sunday, December 30, 2001 6:18 AM

> Jayadvaita Swami; Hari Sauri (das) ACBSP;

> Tattvavit (das) ACBSP

> (NE-BBT); Balarama LOK; Lotta; GBC Unmoderated;

> India (Continental

> Committee) Open (Forum)

> SV: prasada to poor people; some relevant

> quotes

>

> Here are some nice newspaper articles that have

> recently been published

> about the prasadam distribution of the Bangalore

> temple, which feeds

> 17,000

> children a day in the schools of Karnataka. The

> government was so

> impressed

> with the program that they have adopted a similar

> program for the rest

> of

> the state; and the chief minister of Karnataka

> personally honored the

> ISKCON temple president at an inauguration function.

> Just imagine,

> ISKCON is

> setting the standard for the government to follow.

> Don't you think

> Prabhupada would be happy? But some here would say

> it is "Food for

> Death",

> it is an offense to Srila Prabhupada, and it is all

> mundane karma-kanda.

> After all, they are just giving prasadam to the

> needy. Why aren't they

> giving it to the rich?

>

> TIMES OF INDIA

> Mid-day Meal Started in N. Karnataka

>

> Times News Network

>

> Raichur: Chief Minister S.M. Krishna sat down to

> lunch with students of

> the

> Government Primary School on Friday, kicking off the

> mid-day meal scheme

> for

> the seven districts of North Karnataka. The launch

> took place at Arakera

> village in Deodurga taluk of Raichur district, where

> Krishna arrived by

> helicopter along with some ministers at 11.40 a.m.

>

> Minster for Education H. Viswanath, district in

> charge and Public Works

> Minster Dharam Singh, Health Minister Maalaka Raddy

> and Home Minister

> Mallikarjun Kharge joined the CM in the meal. After

> the lamp had been

> lit

> and vocalist Sangita Kakhandiki had sung the

> invocation, MP Venkatesh

> Nayak

> delivered the welcome speech.

>

> "Children are not a burden to society. To encourage

> them to study, and

> decrease illiteracy in the state, particularly in a

> backward area like

> Deodurga taluk, we have proposed to introduce the

> mid-day meal

> programme,"

> Krishna said in his speech.

>

> Krishna had a special word for the social services

> of ISKCON and Wipro

> chief

> educationist Azim Premji (the richest Indian in the

> world). At present,

> the

> International Society for Krishna Consciousness

> (ISKCON), Bangalore, has

> taken on the responsibility of providing mid-day

> meals to 19,000 people

> in

> Bangalore.

>

> Later, Krishna's cabinet ministers and His Holiness

> Madhu Pandit Das,

> president and project director of ISKCON, Bangalore,

> also spoke,

> Deodurga

> MLA Yellappa Akkarki proposed the vote of thanks.

>

> ISKCON Seer Felicitated

>

> Chief Minister Krishna felicitated His Holiness

> Madhu Pandit Das of

> ISKCON

> with a shawl and presented him a memento. In his

> speech, Swamiji Madhu

> Pandit Das said that "annadanna is supreme. No other

> gift or donation is

> equal to it. ISKCON has already started providing

> mid-day meals to

> 19,000

> people in Bangalore, and plans to feed 2.5 lakh

> (250,000) people a day

> in

> and around Bangalore", he said. "It will cost

> roughly Rs 30 lakh

> ($60,000) a

> month, but Lord Krishna's grace, we have no scarcity

> of finance."

>

> The Swamiji invoked the tale of the 'Akshya Patre

> Yojana' (miraculous

> pitcher) which never got empty, to relate to the

> mid-day meal programme.

> He

> blessed Krishna to lead Karnataka and make the state

> hunger-free within

> three years.

>

> DECCAN HERALD

>

> Iskcon chief calls for Child hunger free State

>

> BANGALORE, Nov 10

> The president of Iskcon, Bangalore, Mr Madhu Pandit,

> has urged Chief

> Minister S M Krishna to adopt the mission of making

> Karnataka

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