By Acarya Dasa<\/p>\n
On February 1st<\/sup> while padayatra <\/em>was making its way through Perumbudur, there was heavy traffic in the city and we started to worry about how we would do sankirtana<\/em> \u2013we then realized that if the Lord desires it, anything is possible. \u00a0As we began to make our way through Perumbudur, to our great surprise we had no problem continuing with sankirtana <\/em>even on one way roads. \u00a0It is well known that the people of South India are very religious, and so wherever we went they supported us.\u00a0 When we were going through places with busy traffic, the traffic police came and assisted us, allowing Sri Sri Nitai Gaurasundar to pass.<\/p>\n Normally, we would not take the padayatra ratha<\/em> across a flyover and always walk on roads instead. This time though, as we negotiated our way, we were directed to a flyover route and there was no other way to reach our destination. So we unhitched the bulls from the ratha <\/em>and joined the bulls to a tractor. We then sent the bulls and a few padayatris <\/em>on \u00a0an alternate route to our destination via road. The rest of us got onto the tractor trolley and along with Nitai Gaurasundar started to make our way over the flyover. \u00a0It was a smooth ride over the flyover and we then realized that Sri Nitai Gaurasundar wanted to see the city from an elevated position.\u00a0 We enjoyed our long ride and reached our destination safe and sound.<\/p>\n A few years back padayatra <\/em>also visited a village called Pare not far off from Aravade the birth place of Lokanath Maharaj. When we visited last Paramgati Maharaj, Akhildhara Dasa and Rupa Goswami Dasa stayed at a Ram Temple for a few days. We arranged many programs for the villagers and had sankirtana <\/em>all over the village. The village people are very simple people and they accept the Lord very easily.\u00a0 A good example of this was a boy whom we had met here named Sumit. He was a native villager who was working in Chennai but had come back to his village for the holidays at the same time padayatra <\/em>was visiting. After Sumit had met all the padayatris <\/em>he stayed with us for the duration of our stay there \u2013 Sri Sri Nitai Gaurasundar had attracted his heart. When we left he remained in contact with Rupa Goswami Dasa. Today he follows all the rules and regulations for spiritual life and loves Lokanath Maharaj and his nectarine kirtanas<\/em>. He even has a collection of Maharaj\u2019s CDs and sings the same melodies. He said that whenever he sings the \u2018Hare Krishna Mahamantra\u2019 he closes his eyes and envisions Sri Sri Nitai Gaurasundar and Lokanath Maharaj. What is even more amazing is that he has never had music lessons, yet he can play the harmonium and when he plays and sings he does so for the pleasure of the Lord. \u00a0Sumit says that it is all the mercy of Gaura Nitai.<\/p>\n In March, padayatra <\/em>will be attending the \u2018Kirtan Mela\u2019.\u00a0 From March 11th<\/sup> to March 18th<\/sup> we will be on the Navadvipa Mandal Parikrama and on March 23rd<\/sup> we are scheduled to attend the Gaura Purnima celebrations in Mayapur Dham.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Acarya Dasa On February 1st while padayatra was making its way through Perumbudur, there was heavy traffic in the city and we started to worry about how we would do sankirtana \u2013we then realized that if the Lord desires it, anything is possible. \u00a0As we began to make our way through Perumbudur, to our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}