{"id":7979,"date":"2022-02-01T10:08:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T04:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/?p=7979"},"modified":"2022-02-01T10:08:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T04:38:36","slug":"one-day-vaishnavi-walk-held-at-masod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/one-day-vaishnavi-walk-held-at-masod\/","title":{"rendered":"One-day Vaishnavi walk held at Masod"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jayabhadra devi dasi, IGF preacher ISKCON Amravati
\nAfter the one-day padayatra at Malegaon our ISKCON Girls\u2019 Forum was searching for a location to hold our next padayatra. Being a District Tuberculosis Officer at Amravati, I have to go on visits throughout the area and I thought of doing padayatra in the nearby village of Masod where we have Mrs Usha as our health worker. I called her on December 24 to discuss the possibility and she agreed saying, \u201cMadam, I will keep the mahila mandal group ready to join padayatra.\u201d
\nWith a few congregation devotees and Amravati temple\u2019s Ramavatar dasa we headed to Masod the following day. The local matajis were waiting at the Anganwadi centre to welcome us with flowers and from there we proceeded on padayatra covering the whole village. The ladies were dressed in a common-colour sari that made our walk special, all of them had kartals and all were devotees of Lord Krishna.
\nAs the sankirtan went on the children were holding our padayatra banner and the ladies performed fugadi, a Maharashtra folk dance for religious occasions. I also joined the folk dancing and enjoyed it immensely. After an hour of sankirtan the ladies then sang their local bhajans about Krishna and danced, and padayatra came to an end at a local Krishna temple. By the Lord\u2019s arrangement it was the opening date of that temple so the villagers were happy to receive Krishna devotees.
\nAt the temple we had sankirtan, worshipped the Bhagavad-gita and drona prasadam was distributed to all. The ladies then shared their realizations about padayatra, the consensus being \u201cwhenever there is any programme, please call us and we will join.\u201d Finally, we honoured Mrs Usha who made all the arrangements for us, and gifted a Bhagavad-gita to the mahila mandal group to thank them for their help.<\/p>\n

Bhagavad-gita distribution score:\u00a0 20
\nSrila Prabhupada, ki jai.<\/p>\n