{"id":117236,"date":"2026-02-04T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=117236"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:00:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:00:46","slug":"25-years-of-service-interview-with-adi-purusha-of-interfaith-community-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=117236","title":{"rendered":"25 Years of Service &#8211; Interview with Adi Purusha of Interfaith Community Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src= \"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!kW6X!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc3ecfee5-1456-4bef-a815-1c3771b8c1ad_2048x1536.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>25 Years of Service &#8211; by Nityananda Chandra Granger.<\/p>\n<p>Chandra: How long have you been distributing free hot meals at Tompkins Square Park?<\/p>\n<p>Adi: Bhaktivedanta Swami, a.k.a. \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da, started this program of distributing vegetarian food 55 years ago, in 1965. We have continued this endeavor steadily as Interfaith Community Services for the past 25 years, rain or shine.<\/p>\n<p>Chandra: Can you tell us more about Interfaith Community Services?<\/p>\n<p>We feel that God\u2019s love is distributed through service<\/p>\n<p>Adi: Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we gather at our kitchen in the Lower East Side with cooks and volunteers to prepare healthy, flavorful, and balanced vegetarian meals for anyone who is hungry.<\/p>\n<p>To read the complete article please click here: <a href=\"https:\/\/nyspirit.substack.com\/p\/25-years-of-service\">https:\/\/nyspirit.substack.com\/p\/25-years-of-service<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src= \"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!kW6X!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc3ecfee5-1456-4bef-a815-1c3771b8c1ad_2048x1536.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" \/>25 Years of Service &#8211; by Nityananda Chandra Granger. Chandra: How long have you been distributing free hot meals at Tompkins Square Park? Adi: Bhaktivedanta Swami, a.k.a. \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da, started this program of distributing vegetarian food 55 years ago, in 1965. We have continued this endeavor steadily as Interfaith Community Services for the past 25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117238,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117236\/revisions\/117238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}