By Sundarkrishna and Anantacharya Dasa This was Latur’s second pāda-yātrā; located in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra, the city is popular with tourists attracted by the historical monuments. Our first holy walk lasted for three days in October of 2016 starting in Latur and ending in Ter. This time we held a six day pāda-yātrā […]
By Acarya Dasa On July 18th 1966, in New York City our dear Srila Prabhupada officially incorporated ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness). On this day many years later, we were preaching in the Kozhikode area. Little did we know what a memorable day it would be for our pāda-yātrā too. 626 Books We spent […]
By Acarya Dasa We reached Kozhikode or Calicut (not to be confused with Kolkata) on July 17th. This metropolitan city in the state of Kerala is located on the Malabar coast and is the largest urban area in the state, it’s also the 192nd largest urban area in the world. News of pāda-yātrā spreads far […]
By Acarya Dasa On July 15th our pāda-yātrā party reached Tanur, a small town nine kilometers north of Tirur Tehsil in the Malappuram district and is predominantly a Muslim area. It was previously known as Tyndis. Before travelling to Tanur a few pāda-yātris visited Pandharpur for the Vyasa Puja celebrations of Lokanath Swami. The rest […]
By Aradhika Radha dasi and Gaurangi dasi A new format for Padayatra Padayatra is one of the biggest preaching programs of the year in Slovenia. For the past fourteen years Slovenian devotees have been organising a walk every summer. By walking in different sections each year they have covered the entire country, which is […]
By Acarya Dasa The Lord of Guruvayur We arrived in Guruvayur (also written as Guruvayoor or Gurupavanapuri) on June 24th. This municipal town located in the Thrissur district of Kerala is home to the ‘Guruvayur Sree Krishna’ temple. The temple has the fourth largest number of devotees, visiting per day, in all of India. […]
By Acarya Dasa Our pāda-yātrā party was passing through the village of Talugudi on June 14th . Rupa Ragunath Maharaj was about to leave for Argentina after having spent some time with us. He said to me that day, “We should dress Sri Sri Nitai Gaurasundar very nicely with beautiful garlands.” We usually make simple […]
By Acarya Dasa On June 7th we reached Chemmanur in Kerala. We celebrated the Chida-Dahi festival there at the Narayan Swami Kalyan Mandapa where the namahatta devotees made all the necessary arrangements for the festival. We had grand kīrtana and Vedavyas Priya Maharaj gave a class describing the pastimes of the ‘chida-dahi’ festival. Chida-Dahi festival […]
By Acarya Dasa Our pāda-yātrā party reached Kalady (Kaladi) on June 5th. The town is located east of the Periyar river, in the Ernakulam district of Kerala and is not far from the ‘Cochin International Airport’. It is famous for being the birth place of Adi Shankaracharya, an incarnation of Lord Shiva. Shankaracharya When […]
By Acarya Dasa Rupa Ragunatha Maharaj joins the team Our pāda-yātrā party reached the town of Tiruvalla on Narasiṁha Caturdaśa on May 9th. The town is located in the district of Pathanamthitta in Kerala, South India and covers an area of approximately 27 kilometers. We received wonderful news when we arrived there: Rupa Raghunath […]