Annamrita & Akshay Patra are two of the largest non profit organizations in the world serving vegetarian nutritious food to millions of children daily. Their primary focus is FOOD FOR EDUCATION & LIFE. They also serve the hot nutritious meals in a emergency situations like COVID-19, earthquake, flooding....etc.
We can change this world for better by serving nutritious meals (Mode of Goodness or Satvik foods) to ourselves & others, and by uplifting our lives/lifestyle by spiritual/material education.We can’t manufacture food, but we can serve of course. Time & money spent for nutritious foods & spiritual education can lead us in the right direction. Prevention is always better than cure. Evolution is better than Revolution.
1. Annamrita, Food for Life Global: It was founded in 1995, currently serving in 60 countries. They are serving up to 2 million plant-based meals daily. https://ffl.org/
2. Akshaya Patra Organization, located in India. The Largest NGO-Run Mid-Day Meal program serving wholesome vegetarian school lunch to over 1.8 million children in 19,039 Schools Across 12 States & 2 Union Territories in India. https://www.akshayapatra.org/
These two completely independent non-profit organizations are managed by ISKCON & other Philanthropists.
Akshayapatra (Sanskrit: अक्षयपात्र) means an inexhaustible vessel, which holds a never-failing supply of food. (Read the ancient story about Akshapatra from the grand Mahabharata. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akshaya_Patra). A few months ago my family and I visited the Akshaya Patra Kitchen in Bhadaj, Ahmedabad, India. A very thorough tour was given by Keshav Das Prabhu, Bhadaj Iskcon Temple.
Akshaya Patra Organization started it’s Ahmedabad kitchen on 03 August, 2014 (total 52 kitchen in India). The kitchen, constructed across three levels, and spread over two acres is one of the largest kitchen in the country. Kitchen is constructed on the gravity flow system, equipped with a roti (Indian flat bread) making machine that can churn out up to 60,000 rotis an hour, as well as boilers, rice cleaning machines, rice and dal silos, cold storage and more, this kitchen can produce up to 200,000 meals in five hours. The kitchen is also fitted with a full-scale bakery to produce wheat-based food to the young children.
On every school day about 5 tonnes of rice, 9 tonnes of vegetables, and 4 tonnes of dal are cooked and loaded into 70 custom designed meal distribution vehicles. They are then delivered to 160,000 children in 700 schools across Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad districts.
It is worth visiting this very large, neat & clean kitchen in Ahmedabad, India.
THANK YOU.
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MY SPIRITUAL INSPIRATION , SOURCE & THE GURUS:
I am inspired to hear & read the Vedic Scriptures by regularly listening to Sri Pandurang Shashtri Athvale, also known as Dadaji ( speaks on Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Veda based discourses & western philosophy ) and the association of Swadhyay Parivar every Sunday in Swadhya Kendra.
I also hear and read the discourses & literature on Vedic thoughts from Srila Prabhupada, his disciples & grand disciples ( HH Bhakti Rasamitra Swami, HH Chaitanya Charandas Prabhu, Shubha Vilas Prabhu, Sutapa Das, Amarnath Dasa, HH Bhakticharu Swami, HH Urmila Devi Dasi, HH Sivarama Swami, HH Radhanath Swami, HH Romapada Swami, Lal Govind Prabhu (Gujarati & Hindi), Prahalad Maharaj in Surat (Gujarati) .......and many more from ISKCON......).
FYI: A good source of Vedic literature: Vedabase.com Srimad Bhagavad Gita is the essence & Srimad Bhagavatam (SB) is the nectar of all Vedic scriptures. Repeatedly hearing/reading & meditating the Scriptures, Eating Sanctified Pure Food and Chanting or Hearing the Vedic Mantras are nourishing to our heart (Soul), transcendental to our consciousness, purifying to our senses and thus helps us to overcome our weaknesses or deficiencies. Yes, we do have good qualities within us but there is always a room for improvement.
It is always a good idea to share our good thoughts & knowledge with others. Thanks to the Facebook & Social media for providing me the platform. Of course I use Smartphone & Google search to collect some data.
Besides my parents, wife, teachers, family & friends GREATFUL to EVERYONE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED in MY LIFE. Hopefully my enthusiasm will continue by Grace of the Guru & God (Krishna , Absolute Truth).
NOTE:
Many times a word Hearing is used instead of Listening when it comes to the Scriptures. Because Scriptures are so potent that simply by Hearing them even if you don’t try to interpret or analyze or understand them still there will be passive positive effects on our mind & senses.
We can follow either the Quran, Bible,Torah, Tripitaka-Buddhism, Agama-Jainism, Guru Granth Sahib-Sikhism, Gita or any other Philosophy which makes sense to us, purifies us, elevates our consciousness and qualifies us to understand God and instill the love of God & his creation. (whichever way we can understand God -- either Personal with many names or Impersonal as an universal consciousness & energy).
Don’t try to understand God by Name, Religion or Depiction (means image, picture...etc) but try to understand him by the Definition through Scriptures. The Transcendental subject of God & his creation cannot be understood by mental speculation. Some times people ask why God is Supreme? It is just like asking why is the circle circular? Just by definition, the circle is circular. Similarly by definition, God is unborn, complete, unlimited, infinite, eternal, the Absolute Truth the source of everything, cause of all causes.
I see God, besides the above mentioned qualities, as an eternal living person (not a abstract or some kind of light) known by the name KRISHNA meaning one who attracts everyone has also MANY other NAMES, forms, abodes, incarnations, activities, qualities, associates, is full of wisdom, bliss, and the cause of all causes.
Bg 9.17 -- I am the father of this universe, the mother, the support and the grandsire. I am the object of knowledge, the purifier and the syllable oṁ. I am also the Ṛg, the Sāma and the Yajur Vedas.
TEXT 18: Gita 9.18: I am the goal, the sustainer, the master, the witness, the abode, the refuge and the most dear friend. I am the creation and the annihilation, the basis of everything, the resting place and the eternal seed.
Bg:13-12:-- Accepting the importance of self-realization; and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth ( God ) – all these I declare to be knowledge, and besides this whatever there may be is ignorance. ( Vedabase.com ).
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