{"id":14094,"date":"2014-11-09T07:46:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T07:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=14094"},"modified":"2014-11-09T07:46:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T07:46:44","slug":"padayatra-odisha-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=14094","title":{"rendered":"Padayatra Odisha 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Gunacuda Dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beginning in 1992, devotees from ISKCON Bhubaneswar, on the instruction of Srila Gour Govinda Maharaja, have organised an annual padayatra in different village areas of Odisha. This year’s padayatra took place in Keonjhar district and lasted for 3 weeks with devotees from Odisha, Australia, England, France, Ireland and Russia taking part.<\/p>\n

They were joined by Acarya prabhu and devotees from Padayatra India who brought their bullock cart and the beautiful Deities of Sri Sri Nitai Gaurasundara and Srila Prabhupada. The blissful kirtan and large bullocks pulling the Lord’s cart certainly caught the attention of the Odishan villagers and they gathered in large numbers to join the devotees, often walking the whole route to the next stop.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of Srila Prabhupada’s books daily were distributed as the devotees walked and also during school and college programs. Every evening the pandal would be crowded with people enthusiastic to attend the evening program which commenced with Gaura arati , where the devotees would get the villagers to chant and dance with them.<\/p>\n

This year many villagers bought japa malas and were shown how to chant.<\/p>\n


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\"HareBy Gunacuda Dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beginning in 1992, devotees from ISKCON Bhubaneswar, on the instruction of Srila Gour Govinda Maharaja, have organised an annual padayatra in different village areas of Odisha. This year’s padayatra took place in Keonjhar district and lasted for 3 weeks with devotees from Odisha, Australia, England, France, Ireland and Russia taking part. They were joined by Acarya prabhu and devotees from Padayatra India who brought their bullock cart and the beautiful Deities of Sri Sri Nitai Gaurasundara and Srila Prabhupada. The blissful kirtan and large bullocks pulling the Lord’s cart certainly caught the attention of the Odishan villagers and they gathered in large numbers to join the devotees, often walking the whole route to the next stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14095,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14094\/revisions\/14095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}