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Dear Devotees,

Hare Krishna.
 
Some of my friends in the food and media industries
are working together to make a documentary entitled
?Divine Food?. The documentary is meant to cover the
sanctity of food and the way in which it is cooked in
various spiritual traditions. It will also focus on
how food is not merely meant for the gross body but
rather an influence on one?s mind and consciousness.
Amidst the modern impersonal conception of merely
rushing to eat and dumping the body with all sorts of
stuff, food when prepared with higher consciousness
brings about taste and nourishment that are both
holistic and uplifting. One of my friends has
requested me to do research and establish contacts for
potential interview sources and suitable filming
locations. We are looking at practitioners in various
spiritual traditions, famous temples with unique food
offering traditions like Jagannatha Puri, etc. and
other aspects. The focus will be on spiritual
vegetarianism and we hope to cover a few traditions.
If there is more potential, the series can go further
to more episodes. Are there any divya desams where the
preparation and distribution of spiritual food is
unique? I am sure there are many. I have heard of the
Oppiliappan and Sri Rangam temple prasadam which is
prepared without salt and yet tastes nectarean. We are
looking for devotees or persons who can give us access
to the going-ons in some of these temple kitchens or
devotees preparing the prasadam. We wish to interview
them and cover aspects related to the essence of the
preparation, the attitude and cleanliness involved in
it and the manner in which the distribution is
conducted. Both the cooks and the beneficiaries are
needed for interviews and on-sight shooting is also
being considered. We need as many contacts and sources
as possible to bring out the entire culture related to
their involvement in the preparation of bhagavad
prasadam.

I will let the interested parties know more as things
evolve. The documentary will be produced by a private
international food channel and the plan is to
broadcast this globally. More details later. We are
still at the conception level. This is more of a
documentary that has come about due to the personal
conviction of the people involved who want to
broadcast the value of spiritual food. We?d be
appreciative of the maximum level of access possible
to these places and devotees who can nourish this
important task, without in any way disrupting the
sanctity of the temple kitchens. We wish to cover the
entire culture related to this aspect.

Those who may be able to provide input are welcome to
write to me at rjsimman@xxxxxxxxx

Thanking you in advance,

Hare Krishna.


dasan,
R. Jai Simman
Jakarta


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