By Jayabhadra devi dasi, IGF preacher By the mercy of Sri Guru and Gauranga ISKCON Amravati held its fourth annual Vaishnavi padayatra, a most-awaited event by temple matajis and our ISKCON Girls’ Forum team. As the new year arrives, we all start planning for our padayatra – and as it’s a ladies’ festival it […]
By Sadbhuja Gauranga dasa Nama Hatta devotees in Alibag, Maharashtra, held their latest one-day walk on March 12, 2023. The padayatra – starting from Kharpada and passing through Thalepada and Nandapada to its destination at Fakirpada – was the twelfth in a series designed to cover the more than 200 villages neighbouring Alibag. The […]
By Acarya dasa, (All India Padayatra leader) We padayatris reached Vrindavan dhama on October 6, 2022. There was a grand welcome arranged by ISKCON’s Krishna-Balaram temple devotees and other devotees gathered for Vraja-mandal Parikrama. For the parikramakaris, it is a great event because the utsava deities of Sri Sri Nitai-Gaurasundar lead the parikrama. The […]
By Shadbhuja Gauranga dasa On December 11, 2022, the Alibag yatra held its ninth one-day padayatra, this time walking from Kihim village, 8km north of Alibag, to our destination at Chondhi village. Devotees assembled at Kihim’s Krishna temple where the walk was inaugurated by the auspicious hands of sarpanch Adhik Narvekar. We were also […]
By Damodarlila dasa (Maharashtra Padayatra leader) On November 17, 2022, we arrived at a village named Tupashed, having been invited there when we were in Balegaon. The Tupashed villagers joined us in arati and sankirtan after many had assembled to hear katha in the evening and everyone also took a Bhagavad-gita from us. They were […]
By Chaitanya Jivan Dasa (President) The devotees of Jalgaon, under the guidance of Anantasesa Dasa (Zonal supervisor Vidharbha region), organized a 5th one-day padayatra on January 26th, 2023. Jalgaon is a major city in western India, located in the northern part of the state of Maharashtra within the region of Khandesh. We have a small […]
By Dayal Gopal dasa, Nepal Padayatra leader The Nepal Padayatra restarted in the Jhapa district in southeast Nepal on November 17, 2022, following a gap of two months while the padayatris went on Vraja-mandala Parikrama. Our first stop was at Kerkha village near the Kamala River. A family in the village welcomed us and […]
By Dayal Gopal dasa, Nepal Padayatra leader Padayatra is continuing in Nepal and we are walking on the Mahendra Highway running the length of the country from east to west, the only major highway in Nepal. At the eastern tip of Nepal, we came to the Mechi River, a trans-boundary waterway flowing through Nepal […]
Acharya Dasa, All India Padayatra leader On December 2, 2022 Hare Kṛiṣhṇa! Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet Gurumaharaj. My humble obeisances at the lotus feet of all the assembled Vaishnavas. Some devotees distribute books for one month or two months – but in this Padayatra team, we distribute Srila Prabhupada’s books […]
By Jayabhadra devi dasi This year was the thirty-sixth Vraja-mandala Parikrama. For thirty-five years parikrama has been going on and on, with just a one-year gap due to Covid. Vraja-mandala Parikrama is a project of padayatra so every year all padayatris join parikrama, including those from the All India, Maharashtra, Utkal-Banga, Andhra Pradesh and […]