{"id":3502,"date":"2016-12-20T08:21:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T02:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/?p=3502"},"modified":"2016-12-20T08:21:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T02:51:27","slug":"the-mauritius-harinama-team-organized-2-padayatras-for-iskcon-50th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/the-mauritius-harinama-team-organized-2-padayatras-for-iskcon-50th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MAURITIUS HARINAMA TEAM ORGANIZED 2 PADAYATRAS FOR ISKCON 50TH ANNIVERSARY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Panchatattva Dasa<\/p>\n<p>The Harinam Team of Sri Sri Radha Golokananda Mandir held two <em>padayatras<\/em> this year.<\/p>\n<p>One <em>padayatra<\/em> was held earlier this year from April 15<sup>th<\/sup> to April 17<sup>th<\/sup>. The <em>padayatris <\/em>walked from Nouvelle France to Rose-Bell, then to Plain Magnien and at last\u00a0 to Mahebourg, covering a total of 23 kilometres. One evening we stayed at a place called Shivalas where we had <em>kirtanas<\/em> and <em>pravachans <\/em>(spiritual discourses or lectures) followed by sumptuous <em>prasadam<\/em> which was organized by the <em>namahatta <\/em>devotees.\u00a0 The <em>padayatra <\/em>received a good response with many people joining and chanting along the way. The last day was especially wonderful when many devotees joined\u00a0 the massive evening \u00a0<em>harinam<\/em>. Each day <em>padayatris<\/em> distributed sweets to the public, giving them the joy of a higher taste.<\/p>\n<p>The commemorative walk was held on August 5<sup>th<\/sup> in the southern part of Mauritius. On the first day we walked from the village of Chamouny to the village of Chemin Grenier. It was a grand success as we ventured into places where no <em>h<\/em><em>arinama<\/em> parties have gone before. On the second day, we walked form Chemin Grenier to a place called Surinam. We visited an orphanage on the way there where everyone participated in the chanting of the holy names. In the evening we stayed at Devaki Nandana Dasa\u2019s house, a disciple of Veda Vyasa Maharaja; he also served us with nice <em>prasadam<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The third day was the most memorable: any devotees came to participate and we had very wonderful <em>kirtan<\/em><em>a<\/em><em>s<\/em>. We travelled to all the villages where people had never experienced the chanting of the holy names before . So many of them \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0took \u00a0<em>darsana <\/em>of the Lords, Sri Sri Nitai Gaura Nataraja, \u00a0and welcomed Them with incense, flowers and fruits. On our way we noticed a wedding ceremony being held and as we got closer, to our surprise, all the <em>baratis<\/em> or wedding guests came out to join us in the <em>kirtana<\/em>. The newlywed couple even took the chance to offer incense to the Lords \u2013we are certain that they received Their blessings.\u00a0 Amazingly, we ended the <em>padayatra <\/em>in an Arya Samaj Hall, even though \u00a0it \u00a0is well known that the Arya Samaj in Mauritius do not accept deity worship in their compound. However, we were warmly welcomed with our deities. Asim Krishna Dasa, originally from India, gave a wonderful lecture bringing the <em>padayatra <\/em>to a close. We are also thankful to Narsimha Caitanya Dasa, a disciple of Gopal Krishna Maharaja, who assisted us enormously by distributing nice <em>prasadam<\/em> to all the guests during all three days of the walk.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to organising many more <em>padayatras<\/em> in the future until every village in Mauritius comes in contact with the holy names.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3504\" src=\"http:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/p2.jpg\" alt=\"p2\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3505\" src=\"http:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/p3.jpg\" alt=\"p3\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3506\" src=\"http:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/p4.jpg\" alt=\"p4\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3507\" src=\"http:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/p5.jpg\" alt=\"p5\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3508\" src=\"http:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/p6.jpg\" alt=\"p6\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3509\" src=\"http:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/p7.jpg\" alt=\"p7\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/p8.jpg\" alt=\"p8\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3511\" src=\"http:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/p9.jpg\" alt=\"p9\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/p10.jpg\" alt=\"p10\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3513\" src=\"http:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/p11.jpg\" alt=\"p11\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3514\" src=\"http:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/p12.jpg\" alt=\"p12\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3515\" src=\"http:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/p13.jpg\" alt=\"p13\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3516\" src=\"http:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/p14.jpg\" alt=\"p14\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Panchatattva Dasa The Harinam Team of Sri Sri Radha Golokananda Mandir held two padayatras this year. One padayatra was held earlier this year from April 15th to April 17th. The padayatris walked from Nouvelle France to Rose-Bell, then to Plain Magnien and at last\u00a0 to Mahebourg, covering a total of 23 kilometres. One evening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502"}],"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=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}