By Acarya dasa, All-India Padayatra leader Padayatra reached Haridwar on May 5, 2022. Haridwar is an ancient city and important Hindu pilgrimage site in northern India’s Uttarakhand state where the river Ganges leaves the mountains to flow across the Indo-Gangetic Plain. Har ki Pauri, a ghat on the banks of the Ganges in Haridwar […]
By Acarya dasa, All-India Padayatra leader The All-India Padayatra arrived at Yamunanagar in northeast Haryana on April 24, 2022. The city has an ISKCON centre where one of our padayatra brothers, Raghuvira Prana dasa who was with the AIP for some years, now serves. He was very pleased to have darshan of Sri Sri […]
By Damodarlila dasa, Maharashtra Padayatra leader On April 27, 2022, the Maharashtra Padayatra reached the village of Apegaon, the birthplace of the most-renowned thirteenth-century yogi, Saint Dnyaneshwar, about 12km east of Paithan. It’s all the mercy of Guru and Gauranga that we reached Apegaon. We had not heard of it and were about to […]
By Damodarlila dasa, Maharashtra Padayatra leader We brought two oxen from Gujarat for our padayatra on the auspicious day of Gita Jayanti in 2021. Our spiritual master, Lokanath Maharaja, mercifully named them Krishna and Arjuna. Happily, they both were serving. We never tied Arjuna to the chariot because the oxen require training and […]
By Jayabhadra devi dasi, IGF preacher ISKCON Amravati On April 24, 2022, Amravati’s Bhakta Prahlad School teachers and ISKCON Girls’ Forum team held a Bala (little Vaishnava) padayatra. Every year we organize a three-day summer camp for children at ISKCON Amravati and on the last day we have our padayatra. In the craft session […]
By Radha Vallabha dasa, Andhra Pradesh Padayatra leader On April 26, 2022, our padayatra ox Govinda left his body. He had been serving since the start of the Andhra Pradesh Padayatra three and a half years ago. He was sadhu in his behaviour – he never hit anybody and was very silent. Even when […]
By Damodarlila dasa, Maharashtra Padayatra leader We celebrated Ramnavami mohatsava on April 10, 2022, at Hadgaon, a town in Nanded District that has twenty initiated devotees, all disciples of Radhanath Maharaja. Devotees from Mumbai Chowpatty’s Sri Sri Radha-Gopinath temple come to Hadgaon for preaching on a regular basis, along with other places – we […]
By Damodarlila dasa, Maharashtra Padayatra leader On April 14 padayatra reached the town of Majalgaon 70 km northeast of Beed, the district headquarters, where the residents were happy to receive us. We carried the chariot to the house of a devotee family and had a wonderful programme. After some rest, we went on nagar sankirtan and […]
By Abhiram Thakur dasa, ISKCON Aravade president The Aravade to Pandharpur Dindi Padayatra was started in 2002 by ISKCON Aravade under the guidance and inspiration of our spiritual master, Lokanath Maharaja. Every year this dindi walks from Aravade to Pandharpur in the month of Chaitra and has now completed twenty years. In the early […]
By Acarya dasa, All-India Padayatra leader The All-India padayatris celebrated Nityananda Trayodasi at Savadgaon village in southern Haryana. We had planned to observe the festival at Bhiwani, but as Mr Harivilas got the news that the padayatra was just 30km south of there in the town of Charkhi Dadri, he called us and insisted […]