Navadvip Mandal Parikrama

Since its inception by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada in 1918, the Gaudiya Vaisnavas have been performing parikrama around Sri Navadvipa Mandala.

In 1972, Srila Prabhupada and some of his disciples went on  parikrama around Sri Navadvipa Dham, and since that time ISKCON Mayapur has been performing Navadvipa parikrama.

The ISKCON Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama has been steadily increasing in size – from seventy devotees to ten thousand devotees and beyond – and is continuing to grow, not only in size but in activities, destinations and transcendental bliss. 

The Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama team engages approximately five hundred volunteers in various services such as speaking at the different places, performing kirtan, cooking the prasadam, transporting the prasadam, serving the prasadam, providing security, caring for any medical needs, broadcasting the parikrama, and so on. The combined effort of these devotees makes the parikrama possible. 

By participating in Sri Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama, the devotees are able to honour and visit the pastime places of the Lord, and thus become absorbed in meditation on and worship of the Lord’s holy dham. Everyone who has attended the parikrama has experienced this bliss in one way or another, and they can testify to it. It is a feeling that compares to no other than itself. 

Bhakti Caitanya Swami once said that

“…we worship Lord Caitanya through Sankirtan, we worship Jagannath through Ratha Yatra and we worship the Dhama, Sri Navadvipa Dhama…through Parikrama.”