Author: Caitanaya Bhagavata das

Svetadvipa dasa, Mauritian padayatri I am very much indebted to padayatra. I was in the All India Padayatra for seven years so basically, I am a padayatri and have lived…

By Sadbhuja Gauranga dasa ISKCON Alibag’s Nama-hatta centre devotees recently held a one-day padayatra in Zirad village about 15km from Alibag. Everyone assembled at Zirad’s Siddhi Vinayak temple, where padayatra…

By Acarya dasa, All India Padayatra leader We padayatris reached Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh in mid-February shortly before the annual Maha Shivratri festival. ISKCON’s Radha-Madanmohan temple devotees welcomed us with…

By Jagannath Puri dasa, Brahmacari I am from Mahipur village, about 30km south of Balangir city in western Odisha. I joined ISKCON Bhubaneswar in 2006 and got initiated in 2012…

By Dhirnayak dasa, Utkala-Banga Padayatra leader At the beginning of March 2023, the Utkala-Banga padayatris celebrated their second Gaura-purnima festival, this time at the Nuapada Nama-hatta preaching centre in Odisha.…

By Rasikgaura dasa (ISKCON Shirasgaon centre leader) On January 29 the ISKCON Shirasgaon centre congregation devotees held a one-day padayatra. Located in central-western Maharashtra, the centre has been operating for…

By Kalanath Krishna dasa, Utkala-Banga padayatri On January 11, the Utkala-Banga Padayatra stayed at a Saraswati Shishu Vidya Mandir, one India’s largest private networks of schools, in Utkela village in…

By Damodarlila dasa, Maharashtra Padayatra leader The padayatris celebrated this year’s Gaura-purnima festival at Parbhani, one of the largest cities in Maharashtra’s Marathwada region. For twenty days we were at…

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…