{"id":4206,"date":"2017-08-25T07:19:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T01:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2017-08-25T07:19:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T01:49:18","slug":"update-telangana-padayatra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/update-telangana-padayatra\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE ON THE TELANGANA PADAYATRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Vishnu Swamy Dasa<\/p>\n<p><em>The last time we heard from the Telangana p\u0101da-y\u0101tr\u0101 the devotees had left their chariot in the Khammam Sri Venkateswara Goshala. They then travelled to Mayapur Dham to attend the vyasa puja celebrations of Bhakti Vikas Swamy on May 20th. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>On May 28<sup>th<\/sup> we returned to Khammam, and after retrieving our chariot we travelled to historical Nelakondapalli located on route from Khammam. Nelakondapalli is the birth place of Kancharka Gopanna more popularly known as Ramadasa a 17th-century devotee of Lord Rama and composer of Carnatic music. He also built a temple dedicated to Lord Rama in Bhadrachalam which is where we stayed while we were there.<\/p>\n<p>Our party of four then travelled to Suryapeta, a new district headquarters and later to Bhonagiri which we reached on July 25<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 There was a big sa\u1e45k\u012brtana p\u0101da-y\u0101tr\u0101 there which my Guru Maharaj, Bhakti Vikas Swami Maharaj and the Salem temple president Gokulchandra Dasa attended with other local leaders and devotees. We are currently staying at the Yadagiri Gutta farm and will be travelling towards Hyderabad next.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4206 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170729_182513-ED.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170729_182513-ED-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4210\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4210'>\n\t\t\t\tBhakti Vikas Swami&#8217;s vyasa puja celebrations in Mayapur\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170729_184655-ED.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170729_184655-ED-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4211\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4211'>\n\t\t\t\tBhakti Vikas Swami and devotees\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170729_192104-ED.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170729_192104-ED-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4212\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4212'>\n\t\t\t\tSri Sri Gaura Nitai\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Vishnu Swamy Dasa The last time we heard from the Telangana p\u0101da-y\u0101tr\u0101 the devotees had left their chariot in the Khammam Sri Venkateswara Goshala. They then travelled to Mayapur Dham to attend the vyasa puja celebrations of Bhakti Vikas Swamy on May 20th. On May 28th we returned to Khammam, and after retrieving our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4207,"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\/4206"}],"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=4206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}