NITAI-GAURASUNDARA’S CART: AN EXPANSION OF LORD BALARAMA
By Acarya Dasa Throughout the seven years that I have been involved with padayatra I have always felt the cart of our Sri Sri Nitai-Gaurasundara to be very special. Their…
20 DAY ODISHA PADAYATRA ORGANISED BY ISKCON BHUBANESWAR
By Pradyumna Das Like previous years, during the auspicious month of Kartika, the ISKCON Bhubaneswar Nama-hatta Department organized a grand 20 day Sankirtan Padayatra from October 10 to November 16…
A DAY WITH ALL-INDIA 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…
32nd KARTIKA VRAJA PADAYATRA OF PARASURAMA DASA
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…
UNITED FRONT MAKING HEADWAY IN SOUTH AFRICA
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…
STEADY PADAYATRAS IN MAURITIUS
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…
PILGRIMAGE IN CYPRUS
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…
AIP ENTERS MAHARASHTRA’S VIDARBHA REGION
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…
HUNGARIAN LAKESIDE TOWNS RESOUND WITH HOLY NAMES
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…
THE BRUCE TRAIL IN CANADA
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…