It is a completely independent non-profit organization that supports the work of Food Yoga International projects both inside and outside of ISKCON.

[2] With roots in India, the Food for Life project views itself as a modern-day revival of the ancient Vedic culture of hospitality and service to those in need.

In 1974 when watching a group of village children fighting with street dogs over scraps of food, the Swami was shocked and told his students, "No one within ten miles of our temple should go hungry...

The distribution of sanctified plant-based meals has been and will continue to be an essential part of India’s Vedic culture of hospitality from which Food for Life was born.

[citation needed] In the war zone of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, volunteers visited orphanages, homes for the elderly, hospitals, institutes for handicapped children, and basement shelters on a daily basis throughout the three-year conflict; an estimated 20 tons of food have been distributed since 1992.

[5] In a New York Times article dated (December 12, 1995) volunteers in Chechnya were described as having "a reputation like the one Mother Teresa has in Calcutta: it's not hard finding people to swear they are saints.

On the same afternoon the great tsunami hit, Vaisnava monks at ISKCON's temple in Chennai, India, were preparing their weekly Sunday feast when they heard of the disaster.

They immediately raced to the most affected areas on the southeast coastline of India and began serving thousands of people with their preprepared vegetable curry.

Food for Life Global Volunteers responded to the Hurricane Katrina disaster in late August 2005 by providing vegan meals to families relocated to Mississippi and Texas.

Working from an ISKCON temple in Udhampur, which was within the earthquake-affected region, the volunteers loaded trucks with drinking water, rice, bread, and blankets.

His book, FOOD YOGA - Nourishing Body, Mind, & Soul, published on Amazon [9] was the culmination of many years of research and meditation and serves to directly educate the public about how to become prasadarians.