In 1974, Srila Prabhupada was looking out from his room at ISKCON Mayapur, when he noticed a group of village children fighting with street dogs over scraps of food. Shocked and saddened by what he saw, Srila Prabhupada turned to his disciple and said, “Imagine how hungry they are! Krishna is the Supreme Father, and wherever the father is, children should not go hungry.”
He gave a mandate: No one within ten miles radius of our temple in ISKCON Mayapur should go hungry. He wrote to one of the temple presidents, “Our temple should be the via media for feeding the poor with food and spiritual knowledge.”
These prophetic and historic words rang loudly and inspired his followers to expand into a global network of prasadam distribution services. Food for Life, as the name suggests, is a unique project for bringing food and life to the needy of the world through the liberal distribution of sanctified vegetarian meals. To expand this project to benefit underprivileged people in the country, ISKCON has formed a non-profit, non-religious, non-sectarian charitable food distribution program, FOOD FOR LIFE MAYAPUR (FFLM).
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