Pilgrims to the temple being given hot prasadam in leaf cups by devotees
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No visitor to Sri Radha Krishna Chandra Temple leaves without tasting Krishna's delicious prasadam.. Kichadi - a variation of the traditional rice - dahl pongal, prepared personally by the devotees and served free, is loved by all. |
The preparation is cooked by dedicated devotees, following high standards of cleanliness and purity, and offered with devotion to the Lord. ISKCON Bangalore reaches the Lord's prasadam not only to those fortunate souls who come to the temple, but to the hundreds and thousands in other parts of Karnataka by transporting it to them. This program is called the Food For Life Program
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An essential part of the Vedic tradition is feeding people. Srila Prabhupada officially began the program of charitable food distribution in 1973 when in India he saw village children fighting with street dogs for food scraps. This prompted him to give the order that, "God is the father, wherever there the father, there cannot be hunger….No one within a ten mile radius of a Hare Krishna temple should go hungry."
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ISKCON Bangalore's Food For Life program in Mahadevapura village in Karnataka. |
Over the last 25 years thousands of volunteers have established vegetarian food relief services in 65 countries.
Every year during West Bengal's worst, Food for Life volunteers risked their lives to feed thousands of isolated villages and protect the survivors from starvation. The Food For Life (FFL) volunteers also organized extensive rescue programs in the sites of devastating earthquakes in Spitak (Armenia, 1988), Latur (India, 1993), and Neftegorsk (Sakhalin, Russia,1995). They carried out programs of hot food distribution to the victims of conflicts in war-torn Sarajevo (former Yugoslavia), Grozny (Chechnya), Ingushetia (Russia) and Sukhumi (Abkhazia). Currently, Hare Krishna Food for Life is the largest vegetarian food-relief organization in the world, having distributed an estimated 120 million free meals to the needy of the world, both in cities and in disaster areas. Every 30 seconds someone in the world receives a hot vegetarian meal from a Hare Krishna Food For Life (FFL) volunteer.
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Number of prasadam servings distributed by ISKCON Bangalore since its inauguration in May 1997
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