By Ritudvipa Gaurachandra dasa, Uttar Pradesh Padayatra leader On August 26, 2022, the padayatris faced a small accident, but everything was fine by the mercy of Sri Sri Nitai-Gaurasundar. We had been staying at a villager’s home in Usar Gaon in Jalaun district. His family members helped us a lot. We had a nice […]
By Dayal Gopal dasa, Nepal Padayatra leader Nepal is a 75% hilly country, so our chariot can’t go everywhere and we often need to walk from one village to another. We carry only our luggage and books and do book distribution and sankirtan. In Nepal, due to poverty and casteism many residents are converting […]
Dhirnayak dasa, Bengal-Orissa Padayatra leader The Utkala-Banga padayatris celebrated Nityananda Trayodasi on February 14 at Khalisahi village, about 80km from Bhubaneswar. There we met Radhanath Maharaja disciple Gaura Gadhadhar dasa who has made his house a preaching centre where he serves Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai. He welcomed us and made all arrangements for our stay […]
By Dayal Gopal dasa, Nepal sankirtan preacher After a break of a few months to regroup and make minor personnel changes, by the mercy of Sri Guru and Gauranga and by the pure desire of pure devotees, on December 14, 2021, the auspicious day of Gita Jayanti, Nepal Padayatra continued to spread the message of […]
By Nrsimha Caitanya dasa, Czech Padayatra leader While the world was still gripped by the Covid-19 madness the twenty-ninth Czech Padayātrā took place in the second half of July, and according to its participants was one of the best padayātrās in which they’d been involved. For a second successive year we were able to […]
By Acarya dasa, All-India Padayatra leader When Srila Prabhupada visited Surat in Gujarat he said that “Surat is a city of devotees.” In Gujarat we padayatris all witnessed how people would always greet us saying “Jai Sri Krishna.” As they heard our sankirtan, whole families would come on to the roads and immediately join […]
By Acarya dasa, All-India Padayatra leader Having spent forty-five days at Bharkawada in Gujarat through India’s second coronavirus lockdown the All-India Padayatra continued its journey on June 9. We were getting ready for mangal arati that morning when we saw that up to eighty people were waiting for us eager to attend their last mangal […]
By Ritudvipa Gaurachandra dasa, Uttar Pradesh Padayatra leader On April 29 padayatra was in the city of Aligarh about 130km southeast of New Delhi. The next day the advance party began searching for a “new home” because some people were discussing an impending lockdown in the district. As we moved ahead seeking shelter, we […]
By Kaunteya Sakha dasa My material name is Krishna Govind Vaidyu. I was born 1990 in the town of Jaysingpur, about 35km from the historic city of Kolhapur in southern Maharashtra. I came to devotional life in 2008 through ISKCON Belgaum, eventually getting in touch with ISKCON Aravade and then with Pandharpur. I was […]