Hare Krishna - Mayapur: Prasadam Distribution

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Sridhama Mayapur
Prasadam distribution

All guests are invited to take prasadam in the Club building's dining hall or in the Govinda's Restaurant on the grounds. The prasadam offered is very reasonably priced. A full meal, known as sulabha bhoga, costs 6 Rupees (20 cents U.S. / 30 pfennigs) per person. Usually about 6000 people a day take these meals to their complete satisfaction. For the price, this meal cannot be beaten. More elaborate prasadam is also available for an equally low price.
Modern and traditional kitchens using both steam-jacketed cookers and open cauldrons prepare prasadam for the many thousands of guests who come on special days and weekends. The main cooking fuel is wood. The cooks are experts and are more than happy to prepare vats of rice, dhal, kichari, and vegetables in batches of hundreds of gallons each.
Weekly, ISKCON Food For Life feeds tens of thousands of needy people with free prasadam, usually the traditional kichari (a rice and dhal preparation), to their full satisfaction. For more than 20 years ISKCON has run a welfare program to augment the diets of mothers and children, who are in special need of more nutrition.
During floods and emergencies, ISKCON sends out boats of devotees with vats of hot kichari, which is the lifeline for stranded people, who sometimes sit on the roofs of their thatched cottages with nothing to eat during the (usually) two-week flood. No other organization has come to the aid of these people during the three floods that have occurred since 1971, when ISKCON first moved to Mayapur.

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