ISKCON Padayatra Website
WHAT IS PADAYATRA
Experience the "walking festivals" as you join devotees on the roads of India, USA, S.A., Mauritius, Australia, Greece, UK... Accompany these pilgrims on their spiritual adventure of a lifetime as they march for religious freedom in America, campaign against drugs in Malaysia, share the Olympic spirit in Barcelona, hand out books to guerrilla fighters in Nicaragua, and fly on the winged feet of devotees in Siberia, plus much more.
Eagerness to ignite a spiritual revolution in the world
Srila Prabhupada performed Padayatra (pilgrimage by foot) a few times during his life and also gave instructions to various devotees to organize this kind of a preaching program. In 1952-53, when he was still known as Abhay, he organized the “League of Devotees” in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh (Northern India). He was urging the Jhansi residents to participate actively in this international preaching organization, quoting Lord Caitanya who said the residents of Bharata-varsa (India) had a special responsibility to distribute God consciousness throughout the world. Nourished by the books of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, he was very eager to ignite a spiritual revolution throughout the world.