ISKCON Tucson’s award-winning restaurant, Govinda’s, has served guests gourmet vegetarian cuisine since 1992. The Temple’s newest resident, a white turkey named Sufi, was on hand to greet guests, share hugs, and take a lot of selfies at their annual Thanksgiving Day feast. “We named him Sufi because in Hindi “safed” means white, and Sufis are famously from Turkey,” noted Tucson’s Temple President Sandamani Devi Dasi with a smile. A 5th-grade classroom raised Sufi, and he later lived on a small family farm, so the friendly fowl was already acclimated to people and appreciated the attention.
His presence on Thanksgiving delighted guests and reinforced Hare Krishna’s belief that all living entities have eternal souls and are worthy of our protection and love. The temple-restaurant compound includes a koi pond and aviary where Sufi has already developed a friendship with the resident peacocks.
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