Everyone commented how fast the journey went as they performed harinama sankirtana<\/em> the whole way.\u00a0 In many villages, headteachers and principals of schools were keen to have the devotees hold programs in their institutions , as they could see that following Krishna\u00a0consciousness would be the way to save their students from blindly imitating the sinful activities going on in the world around them. Nearly all the schools and colleges bought sets of Srimad -Bhagavata<\/em> , which had been translated by Gour Govinda Swami into Oriya on the instruction of Srila Prabhupada. Along the road devotees were also distributing Srila Prabhupada’s divine books to the many interested onlookers and this continued until the evening, when they would set up a stage in the centre of the village for the program.<\/p>\n Every evening, \u00a0villagers would join the devotees for Gaura arati<\/em> and then hundreds of them would sit to listen to the bhajans<\/em> and lecture delivered in their local language. This was often started by a western-bodied devotee speaking about Krishna consciousness, before the main program began. The local people seemed very interested and many bought japa malas and enquired how to chant the maha mantra after hearing the glories of \u00a0harinama <\/em>from foreign\u00a0devotees. In Kantilo, the program was held close to the \u00a0temple of \u00a0the ancient\u00a0deity of Sri Nila Madhava mentioned in the Skanda Purana<\/em>.<\/p>\n The organisers of Padayatra Odisha welcome devotees to join them next year to spread the holy name in Odisha -the land of Lord Jagannath.<\/p>\n
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