San Diego - Mother's Kitchen

Contact: Lalitha Subramanian
Email:lalitha@aol.com
Where: Neil Good day shelter in downtown San Diego.

When: We have started providing food for the homeless twice a month now. Now we are providing meals on the last Sunday and the second last Sunday of every month. The meals are usually salad, bread, lasagna, orange juice, bottled water. Every December we also distribute warm clothes or blankets.

With Amma's blessing, the San Diego satsang group feeds about 150 homeless people in the Neil Good day shelter in downtown San Diego.

Amma says, "It is our compassion and acts of selflessness that take us to the depths of spirituality. Selfless action is the means by which we eradicate the ego that is concealing our true Self. Detached, selfless action leads to liberation. Such action is not just work; it is karma yoga."

Since December 2002, on the first Sunday of every month, a few devotees get together and prepare bag lunches or dinners for the homeless. We started to feed close to 150 homeless with "bag food" such as veggie burgers, peanut butter and jelly sandwich or bagels/cream cheese, etc., along with a fruit and individual bottled juice. The "bag food" is met with much appreciation by the hungry recipients, as many of them would have had just that one meal to last them the entire day. They are thrilled and look forward to the meal we bring every month.

Jai Ma!

--- A report by Mother's San Diego children.

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