G round Breaking Ceremony for A New Multi speciality Hospital at Sri Dham Mayapur happened recently during Ras Purnima festival.The city of Sri Mayapur is expanding,with its number of visitors and its residents increasing every passing year. Kirtan priya das , Nanda Suta das and Prana Gauranga Das inspired and motivated by HH. Jayapataka Swami have stepped forward to build the hospital, for the benefit of growing number of Mayapur Community devotees.
“As a part of the development of a spiritual township , its important to have a hospital and health facility.”, HH Jayapataka Swami said. He also explained that Srila Prabhupada ,after a Govardhan puja in Mayapur saw some poor children eat scraps of left over Prasad. At that time Srila Prabhupada expressed his desire that he never wanted any one to go hungry within a ten mile radius of the ISKCON Campus. It was then that we started the Food For Life at Mayapur”. Maharaj further said that the Hospital was an extension of this instruction .
HH Bhakti Purusottama Swami ,HH Bhakti Nityananda Swami, HG Mahatma das and HG Hridaya Chaitanya das, were also present at the ceremony.”
Very nice step to take care of the health needs of the devotees and visitors, since physical health is also important to have a healthy disease-free body, to perform devotional activities and devotional service to Lord Krishna, by engaging our body in the service of Lord Krishna. Hare Krishna