By Acarya Dasa Our pāda-yātrā party was in the Kumbla area, Kerala on September 17th. We decided to visit Anantapur located 4 kilometers away, where there is a temple of Lord Anantapadmanabha. There is an Anantapadmanabha temple in Thiruvananthapuram as well, the one in Anantapur is considered similar. The pastime of Lord Anantapadmanabh It was […]
By Vishnu Swamy Dasa After celebrating Janmastami and Radhastami we resumed our pāda-yātrā with four devotees. We are now travelling to more interior regions of the state of Telangana State such as Motakondur, and Valigonda Mandal. We set off on September 7th from the Gaura Gram farm near Yadagiri Gutta. This time, many villagers participated […]
By Acarya Dasa Srila Prabhupada’s greatest desire is to propagate the chanting of the Holy Names all over the world. During Srila Prabhupada’s Centennial held in the year 1996, the Governing Body Commission (GBC) of ISKCON established ‘World Holy Names Day’ to commemorate Srila Prabhupada’s arrival anniversary in the West. The ‘World Holy Names Week’ […]
By Acarya Dasa When we visited Kumbla on September 16th, we performed saṅkīrtana in the town and the news of pāda-yātrā spread everywhere. There is a ‘Nityananda Swami Matha’ in the area which also has a school. Nityananda Swami invited us to hold a program for the school children; we agreed and all the teachers […]
By Acarya Dasa On September 11th our pāda-yātrā party arrived in Bovikanam, a small village in the Kasaragod Taluk in Kasaragod district, North Kerala. It is located 12 kilometers east of the district headquarters of Kasaragod. We were fortunate to have had assistance from Sanatan Sankirtana Dasa who is from Bovikanam. He walked with us […]
By Acarya Dasa On September 16th we arrived at the village of Kumbla, located 11 kilometers north of the town of Kasaragod, Kerala. We stayed there for two days. Help from a Muslim brother It had been raining heavily day and night for some time, so we couldn’t go out on saṅkīrtana. We managed to […]
By Acarya Dasa Problems with the police On September 16th our party travelled to Vadakara, a town in the Kozhikode district of Kerala. We were just about to enter the town when some policemen approached us. They said there was a lot of traffic and they could not let us pass, we turned around […]
By Acarya Dasa On September 8th our party was in Kasaragod, a municipal town in the Kasaragod district. It was a very special day for us because Bhakti Vinod Maharaj decided to join us on pāda-yātrā for two days to give us his blessings. Maharaj gave the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam class in the morning and also joined […]
By Vraja Hari Dasa and Sadhana Sakti Dasi On September 9th, the first day of ‘World Holy Name Week’ our pāda-yātrā team took to the streets of Lotus Park, a residential area located 20 kilometres south of the city of Durban. Our team consisted of the following devotees: Krishna Kesava Dasa, Dwarkadish Dasa, Radha Gopinath […]
By Acarya Dasa The All India Pāda-yātrā turns 34 Our pāda-yātrā party planned on leaving Nileshwaram on August 29th but Caitanya Rasamrita Dasa insisted we stay and celebrate Radhastami in his village. He also asked that we do a few preaching programs in other parts of the town. Radhastami is made more special because […]