ECO-CARAVAN TO CLEAN THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE HEART
The 2013 Slovenian Padayatra lasted nearly three weeks, from July 2nd till 19th. A group of approximately fifty devotees, under the leadership of highly experienced Lalita Govinda Prabhu, covered from central to eastern part of the country. They started near the capital, Ljubljana, then proceeded through the hilly Zasavje region, a mining area with a lot of foreign Muslim workers, and then ended in the health resort town of Rogaška Slatina near the Slovenian-Croatian border. The Deities of Nitai-Gauranataraja were still driven by Haridas, Their devotee horse.
Like every year the Slovenian Padayatra was blessed by exalted guest devotees. Many Prabhupada’s disciples, Prahladananda Swami, Bhakti Visrambha Madhava Swami, Krsna-ksetra Prabhu, and Tattvavit Prabhu, enlightened the padayatris during the morning lecture and also often during the fruit break.
According to Slovenian standards, this Padayatra was highly successful since there were more than 2,400 Srila Prabhupada’s books distributed by the sankirtana devotees under the leadership of Lomancita Prabhu.
Once a sankirtana devotee met a Muslim girl who was strongly against the Hare Krishna devotees, but when she was told that the devotees were glorifying Allah all day long, she took a book and gave a decent donation.