Documentary: Seva - Selfless Cooking
For privacy reasons, the film is not open to all. For access email: hetgroeneoor@gmail.com Synopsis Every Sunday morning, a group of volunteers enters the Dew Mandir temple to prepare for the Puja ritual. Seva: Selfless Cooking follows these volunteers and explores their activities and experiences during these preparations. In doing so, the film provides insight in devotion and ritual as experienced by this group of the Indian Diaspora in the West Schildersbuurt in the Hague. “ Service which is given without consideration of anything in return, at the right place and time to one that is qualified, with the feeling that it is one’s duty, is regarded as the nature of goodness .” — Bhagavad Gita Chapter 17, Verse 20 [1] Seva: Selfless Cooking captures how part of the voluntary work is performed and given meaning. The volunteers refer to their work as performing Seva , which they define as ‘selfless service’, and refer to it as a direct...
