Vraja-mandala Parikrama: the best thirty days in the life of a devotee
by Jayabhadra devi dasi Just as every year, Karttika 2019 welcomed devotees for the Vraja Mandala Parikrama, the thirty-third year of the month-long walk. About 1800 devotees engaged in parikrama,…
ISKCON Greater Noida witnesses little Vaisnavas’ Padayatra
By Svarupananda dasa and Jagbandhu dasa By the blessings of our founder-acarya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Srila Prabhupada, and his loyal disciple, Lokanath Swami Maharaja, the ISKCON Greater Noida…
22 DEVOTEES TRAVELING ON FOOT AND BY BUS IN EUROPE
by Narada das A group of 22 devotees from Ukraine and Russia travelled for 4 months from April 27th 2019 till the end of August. We went through 5 countries…
Mendhoda centre devotees hold joint one-day padayatra and boat festival
By Sarang Thakur dasa Under the guidance of centre leader Komal Govind dasa, the Mendhoda, Maharashtra, devotees held their first one-day padayatra and boat festival on December 29, 2019. The…
Khutalwadi youths invite Maharashtra Padayatra to their village
By Arjuna Krishna dasa While chanting in the temple in Vrindavan during Kartik I overheard some boys talking in Marathi. I approached them and asked where they were from in…
Maharashtra padayatris gain spiritual strength at holy tirthas
By Damodarleela dasa and Arjuna Krishna dasa Recently the Maharashtra Padayatra was at Koregaon in the Sangli district, a village enriched with devotees. Cintamani devi dasi, the daughter of a…
AIP walks with the recently inaugurated Gujarat Padayatra
By Acarya dasa, All-India Padayatra leader Srila Prabhupada once declared that he would personally travel by car taking dozens of men to preach in the villages of Gujarat. “In the…
Baroda devotees complete third annual walk to Dakor Ranchhodrai temple
By Sanatana Kripa dasa In line with the padayatras of the past two years, from December 12 to 15, 2019, Gujarat’s ISKCON Baroda devotees completed a four-day walk to the…
Padayatra captures hearts and showers mercy
By Acarya dasa, All-India Padayatra leader On November 27 the All-India Padayatra was in Navsari, the ninth biggest municipality of Gujarat state, where we presented several programmes. That evening I…
Village market-place makes way for padayatra programme
By Damodarleela dasa, Maharashtra Padayatra leader On November 28 the Maharashtra Padayatra arrived at the village of Amnapur in the Sangli district. The sarpancha (political head) of the village was…