Gaura Purnima celebrations<\/strong><\/p>\n In the second week of March we reached Danthalapally, the village where I grew up. A grand reception was organized to welcome our p\u0101da-y\u0101tr\u0101. We stayed and celebrated Gaura Purnima in the village with 100 people participating in the festival. We also performed beautiful sa\u1e45k\u012brtana and distributed pras\u0101dam. Later on we travelled to the village of Bodlada where we did a program at a school there; Manudas Dasa the temple president of the Vancouver, Canada ISKCON Temple also joined us.<\/p>\n The Narsampeta Orphanage <\/strong><\/p>\n We spent a week from April 7th<\/sup> to April 13th<\/sup> at the Narsampeta Orphanage. During that week the students of the ashram participated in our daily programs which included japa and Bhagavat katha. They really enjoyed it. A devotee named Dr. Ramana kindly sponsored 20 Bhagavada-Gitas for the older children.<\/p>\n The p\u0101da-y\u0101tr\u0101 paused for a week or so for us to attend the vysa-puja celebrations of Bhakti Vikas Swami on May 20th <\/sup>in Mayapur. We stored the p\u0101da-y\u0101tr\u0101 cart at the Khammam Sri Venkateswara Goshala. On May 28th we started walking again from Khammam.<\/p>\n Ram Das\u2019 birthplace<\/strong><\/p>\n We then travelled to the historical place of Nelakondapally, birth place of Ramadasa who built the Badrachala Ramalyam in Nizam in the 17th<\/sup> century. While there we stayed in the house he built.<\/p>\n Later, we travelled to Suryapeta, a new district headquarters. We reached Bhonagiri on \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 July 25th<\/sup>. There was a big sa\u1e45k\u012brtana and p\u0101da-y\u0101tr\u0101 event there organised by my Guru, Bhakti Vikas Swami and the Salem temple president Gokulchandra Dasa. Other local leaders and bhaktas also participated. We were fortunate to have one more devotee join us, our team now consists of four people.<\/p>\n Celebrations and difficult situations <\/strong><\/p>\n After stopping to celebrate Janmastami and Radhastami we began walking from the \u2018Gaura Gram farm\u2019 on September 8th<\/sup>. This time many villagers participated in the sa\u1e45k\u012brtana, attracted by the sounds of the mridanga and kartals; even small children enjoyed it and swayed their hands and heads in tune with the k\u012brtana. We were now travelling further into the interior of Telangana to places such as Motakondur and Valigonda Mandal.<\/p>\n We experienced difficulty in one village that we stopped at. Some drunken people harassed us and claimed that our p\u0101da-y\u0101tr\u0101 bulls belonged to them. It’s very hard to spread the Holy Names in the age of Kaliyuga.<\/p>\n Current status<\/strong><\/p>\n We are now on our way to Chowtuppal and urban Hyderabad. Book distribution has been poor on this leg of our journey with only a few small books being distributed moderately. There is also some difficulty with the rain. Our p\u0101da-y\u0101tr\u0101 party is currently in the village of Shaligowraram in the Nalgonda district of Telangana.<\/p>\n
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