Acharya Dasa, All India Padayatra leader On December 2, 2022 Hare Kṛiṣhṇa! Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet Gurumaharaj. My humble obeisances at the lotus feet of all the assembled Vaishnavas. Some devotees distribute books for one month or two months – but in this Padayatra team, we distribute Srila Prabhupada’s books […]
By Jayabhadra devi dasi This year was the thirty-sixth Vraja-mandala Parikrama. For thirty-five years parikrama has been going on and on, with just a one-year gap due to Covid. Vraja-mandala Parikrama is a project of padayatra so every year all padayatris join parikrama, including those from the All India, Maharashtra, Utkal-Banga, Andhra Pradesh and […]
By Acarya dasa, All India Padayatra leader The Radhastami celebration is a great day in the lives of padayatris. It is the birthday of Srimati Radharani and also that of our All India Padayatra which has now turned thirty-eight years of age. Padayatra was inaugurated on Radhastami 1984 at Dwaraka and since then has […]
By Acarya dasa, All India Padayatra leader On the morning of September 17, 2022, All India Padayatra ox Gopal left his body. We were in Maman Khurda village in the Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh. Gopal had been suffering from lumpy skin disease, a viral infection of cows and oxen not seen in India until […]
By Radhakunda dasa ISKCON Noida devotees got the news that the All India Padayatra would be at Noida’s Sri Sri Radha-Govind Dev temple for Janmastami. The devotees eagerly anticipated the party’s arrival, until finally on August 16 the padayatris were at our temple. Former padayatri Bajrangi dasa along with Chakrapani Chaitanya dasa received padayatra at […]
By Jayabhadra Devi Dasi I am always waiting for the month of Kartik for that is the time to run to Vrindavan dham and the best part of Vrindavan is the Vraja-mandala Parikrama. It’s a wonderful experience and the whole world is now becoming aware of the parikrama and its darshan sthalis, the pastimes […]
By Acarya Dasa 15 November 2022 We heard about Govardhan yatra of Srila Prabhupada, Vraja Mandal Parikram and Padayatra, Guru Maharaja HH Lokanath Maharaja is the source of all three. Whenever we meet Srila Gurudev, he speaks about padayatra. Whenever Maharaja speaks of padayatra, his face blooms like a lotus. In 2011, there was the […]
Why is HG Acarya Prabhu still with padayatra? – because of his humility, strong devotion and sadhna. Srila Prabhupada executed the desire of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Srila Prabhupada would say we should have millions of carts all over the world. All India Padayatra is the mother of all padayatras. One devotee was saying HG Sacchidanand prabhu and […]
Parasuram das Vrindavan, the home of Lord Krishna, had a late monsoon and an early Kartika. Torrential rains came down making it difficult to get on the road. As soon as the rain eased up we headed off through Mathura on to Madhavan, the first of the twelve principal forests of Vraj. Krishna appears […]
By Acarya dasa, All India Padayatra leader The padayatris have come to Noida temple after ten years. When we were in Badrinath, our spiritual master, Lokanath Maharaja, asked us what padayatra’s route would be from now onwards. I said we would go to Noida for the Janmashtami celebration. Maharaja was very happy and said, […]