One time a dog followed us from Citrakut all the way to the Kumbha-mela in Allahabad. He used to attend all the aratis, \u00a0from mangal arati to Gaura arati, staying \u00a0in the middle of the devotees. He would eat only the prasadam we left for him and nothing \u00a0from outside. Generally all the other dogs would stare at us while we were \u00a0honouring prasadam \u00a0but this dog would stay far away from us near the ratha. Sometimes dogs would enter our kitchen at night and drink ghee from the pot, forcing us to throw away the spoilt ghee, but this dog never entered the kitchen even once. Although there were many camps at the \u00a0Kumbha-mela this dog would sleep only in ISKCON’s camp and would accept a blanket for \u00a0the cold only if we gave it to him. He would follow Gaur Nitai’s kirtan procession everyday without fail. Many times some devotees wouldn’t come but this dog was there everyday, very happily attending the procession. Upon hearing this, Radhanath Swami and Lokanath Swami commented that this wasn’t an ordinary dog.<\/p>\n
Padayatra is full of such encouraging and amazing experiences. We all read Srimad- bhagavatam \u00a0and Caitanya-caritamrita, \u00a0but on padayatra we get to experience these holy books. While passing through the forest of Jarikhanda Lord Caitanya made wild animals dance and now \u00a0he made this dog behave like a devotee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One time a dog followed us from Citrakut all the way to the Kumbha-mela in Allahabad. He used to attend all the aratis, \u00a0from mangal arati to Gaura arati, staying \u00a0in the middle of the devotees. He would eat only the prasadam we left for him and nothing \u00a0from outside. Generally all the other dogs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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\/85"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padayatra.com\/padayatra-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}