ISKCON Padayatra

By Manoj Barai WANTING TO EXPERIENCE LIFE ON PADAYATRA I had always talked to Acarya dasa, the All-India Padayatra leader, and had got information from him, but I had never…

By Parasurama Dasa This was our 32nd Kartik Padayatra tour of Vraja, going through the 12 forests of Vrindavan with a bullock cart. Usually in the Western world we go…

By Braja Hari dasa, Coordinator, Padayatra South Africa Padayatra South Africa began eight years ago when Lokanatha Maharaja instructed ISKCON Durban temple president Svarup Damodar to launch the programme in…

By Ayodyananath dasa This year’s World Holy Name Week Festival and the Kartik month Padayatra were dedicated to the quick recovery of His Holiness Jayapataka Maharaja. A 3 day padayatra…

By Vaikunthaloka das Introduction by Gaurangi dd: Even though Vaikunthaloka’s travels do not strictly fit the definition of a padayatra -he sometimes walked but mainly hitchhiked around the island- we…

By Acarya dasa, All-India Padayatra Leader HOW DID THE LORD STEAL THE HEART OF AVINASH? The last time we were in the village of Bori in the Yavatmal district of…

By Prabhupada-jívana dasa From July 25 to August 8 devotees from Budapest’s Dayal Nitai-Vijaya Gauranga temple arranged for a padayatra festival to visit the tourist towns and beaches around Lake…

By Bhaktimarga Swami I believe in the saying that I once saw on the back of someone’s t-shirt that reads “to know the land you have to walk it.” When…

By Padmamali dasa During a visit to the picturesque ISKCON Radha-Damodara temple on the banks of the Tapi River in Surat, Gujarat, Lokanath Maharaja instructed the devotees to organize a…

By Radhakunda dasa On September 17 the ISKCON Noida devotees embarked on the third 150km Radhastami Padayatra from Noida, Indraprastha, to Sri Vrindavana, scheduled to conclude at the holy dham…