Padayatra forever!
The 20th Czech Padayatra ended a few days ago. What was it like? – The same as the previous ones, but at the same time different. The weather, for instance,…
ANDHRA PRADESH: lively harinams in my native village
On October 12, the bullock cart padayatra reached the village of Danthalapally, which happens to be my birthplace. I had already performed harinam there many times before with other devotees.…
MAURITIUS: Padayatra during World Holy name Week
The two day padayatra journey to celebrate Holy Name Week 2013 in Mauritius started off from Bhramstan, a small village in the eastern district of Flacq, at 11 a.m. on…
Walking in the footsteps of Lord Caitanya in the Jarikhanda forest
At the end of August Padayatra was in Ranchi, the capital city of Jharkhand, previously known as Jharikhanda. Jharkhand is the famous tract of dense forests through which Lord Caitanya…
Rain, electrical shocks and drunkards in Andhra Pradesh
Warangal District (Andhra Pradesh) At present we are a four men team: Srinivas Sevanada Dasa, Bhupati Dasa, Ramanuja Dasa, and myself. Since last December we have travelled 584 kms and…
Bihar: Holy Names competing with a constant cacaphony
July 20, 2013: “Where are you from?”, “Where is your temple?”, “Where are the bulls from?” and “Where are you going?”, these are some of the questions a padayatri is…
Not an ordinary dog !
One time a dog followed us from Citrakut all the way to the Kumbha-mela in Allahabad. He used to attend all the aratis, from mangal arati to Gaura arati, staying…
How Balaram was saved from the slaughter house
Once, in mid-winter, at the beginning of 2012, we stopped in a village named Tavdu, in the Nuh district of the state of Haryana, 50 kms from Faridabad. We had…
A three men bullock cart Padayatra in Andhra Pradesh
June 15, 2013: On December 5, 2012 three devotees (Visnuswamy das, Srinivas Sevananda das and Bhoopathi das) organised a bullock cart padayatra in the state of Andhra Pradesh. They started…