Mayor Cutforth and his good wife attended the function and his wife cut the ribbon to officially open Food For Life.
There were reporters and a film crew for TV Nz news.
About 100 people came through the doors on this day and took Krsna Prasadam.
From the homeless to the Mayor.
A few people gave donations.
The prasadam consisted of rice, dahl, potato and silverbeet subji, cauliflower, peas, tomatoe and curd subji, veg pakoras, fresh salad, halava, sweet rice, strawberries and cream and mango lassi!
It was fantastic and everyone was smiling with a tummy full of Krsna Prasadam!
Last night Buddhi and I read this in the Prabhupada book:
"The morning and evening kirtanas had already made the Radha-Krsna temple popular in Haight-Ashbury, but when the devotees began serving a daily free lunch, the temple became an integral part of the community. Swamiji told His disciples simply to cook and distribute prasadam - that would be their only activity during the day. In the morning they would cook, and at noon they would feed everyone who came - sometimes 150 to 200 hippies from the streets of Haight-Ashbury..."
Very inspiring piece!
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