Madhu Pandit Dasa the president of ISKCON Bangalore | Madhu Pandit the chairman of The Akshaya Patra Foundation.
"ISKCON temples are centers of spiritual learning through Godly association, centers where a visitor is inspired to learn about spiritual life."
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PRLog (Press Release) – Sept 13, 2010 – What makes this temple different from other temples?
MadhuPandit Dasa: The Vedanta sutra states, ahato brahma jijnasa. This means that the most important activity for a soul, in the human form, is to enquire about spiritual life, brahma jijnasa.
Every civilized society must provide for this to take place. In the advanced Vedic society, ample attention was given to cater to the spiritual aspects of life. With time, society has become practically ignorant of this need. And spirituality has come to the level of just blind rituals and sentiments.
The ISKCON temple provides much more for the soul than those rituals. ISKCON temples are centers of spiritual learning through Godly association, centers where a visitor is inspired to learn about spiritual life. One can receive practical guidance in his spiritual life from those who are already on the path of spiritual advancement.
Although the senses of the visitors may be bogged down by absorption in material endeavor, they can be purified and enlivened by coming in touch with the Supreme Lord in various ways and experience happiness.
This temple provides such transcendental experiences as seeing the beautiful form of the Lord, participation in hearing and singing His qualities and pastimes, tasting nectarean prasadam and engaging in serving the Lord in various ways. Thus, step-by-step, they will realize the reality of their own spiritual identity and learn to cater to its needs.
Akshaya Patra started feeding the underprivileged children in June 2000. It started as a pilot project in five schools in Bangalore feeding 1500 children. Now, has grown into a mammoth endeavor reaching out to 1,186,206 children in 18 locations across eight states.
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it should be —– I could not agree more.sorry not reading and sending it off is not a good idea
pamho agtacbsp srila prabhupada use to says that grihasta asram devotees need to make sure that non one is going hungry within ten miles the first necessity is anna maya for prana maya as srila prabhupada use to say is a question of necessity is not a way of thinking we can get that in that way also but is not the real way then through the necessity of the prasada of the lord come jnana maya means people start to enquire about the absolute truth jijnasa and when this necessity of enquire about brahma jijnasa is over come the vijnana maya which means that the living entity feel that he is different from the material body therefore start to taste the real food that’s ananda maya the food that make everyone happy forever that’s the food of sri krsna also and if we want to respect this trascendental food with sri krsna we have to pass through these five levels of consciousness that srila prabhupada mention in the bhagavat gita as is it chapter 13 vers 5 so is not a question of thinking the real way to taste this prasada but a way of necessity and this necessity is to use everything money health qualities etc.. in the service of sri sri guru and gauranga especially the money should be use to spread krsna consciousness otherwise the money will kill us anyway is a long way the way back home may be the sankirtana movement of sri caitanya mahaprabhu under the special guide of HDG ACBSP will take us back home if we get greedy for that that’s the only price to pay to get there as srila rupa gosvamipada advice us loulyam kalatvam get greedy to get there in a selfless mood service then there is not question of waste time anymore because by doing that without stop we overcome the factor time and therefore the 3 influences of material nature that are working under the factor time the only price to pay is greediness not making everything nicely materially and then death come so where is my happiness ? happy radhastami to everyone ys seva das haribol