{"id":4335,"date":"2017-10-06T13:21:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T07:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/?p=4335"},"modified":"2017-10-06T13:21:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T07:51:52","slug":"update-telangana-india-padayatra-attracting-villagers-holy-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/update-telangana-india-padayatra-attracting-villagers-holy-names\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE FROM THE TELANGANA, INDIA PADAYATRA | ATTRACTING VILLAGERS WITH THE HOLY NAMES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Vishnu Swamy Dasa<\/p>\n<p>After celebrating Janmastami and Radhastami we resumed our p\u0101da-y\u0101tr\u0101 with four devotees. We are now travelling to more interior regions of the state of Telangana State such as Motakondur, and Valigonda Mandal.<\/p>\n<p>We set off on September 7<sup>th<\/sup> from the Gaura Gram farm near Yadagiri Gutta. This time, many villagers participated in the sa\u1e45k\u012brtana. They were attracted by the mridanga and karatals; even small children swayed with the sound of the k\u012brtana. In one village some drunken people harassed us, claiming that our bulls who pull the p\u0101da-y\u0101tr\u0101 cart belonged to them. It\u2019s very difficult to spread the Holy Names in this age of Kaliyuga.<\/p>\n<p>We are now travelling to Chowtuppal and urban Hyderabad regions.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4335 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\/10\/IMG_20170909_090004-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\/10\/IMG_20170909_090004-ed-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4336\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4336'>\n\t\t\t\tPadayatris \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_20170917_192138-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\/10\/IMG_20170917_192138-ed-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4337\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4337'>\n\t\t\t\tLocals enjoying kirtana\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\/10\/IMG_20170919_173250-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\/10\/IMG_20170919_173250-ed-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4338\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4338'>\n\t\t\t\tChildren receive Japa mala\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\/10\/IMG_20170921_194104_HDR-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\/10\/IMG_20170921_194104_HDR-ed-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4339\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4339'>\n\t\t\t\tDistributing books\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Vishnu Swamy Dasa After celebrating Janmastami and Radhastami we resumed our p\u0101da-y\u0101tr\u0101 with four devotees. We are now travelling to more interior regions of the state of Telangana State such as Motakondur, and Valigonda Mandal. We set off on September 7th from the Gaura Gram farm near Yadagiri Gutta. This time, many villagers participated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4336,"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\/4335"}],"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=4335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}