{"id":4024,"date":"2019-06-05T14:52:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T18:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=4024"},"modified":"2019-06-05T14:52:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T18:52:10","slug":"barefoot-parikrama-of-govardhana-is-superior-to-wearing-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/barefoot-parikrama-of-govardhana-is-superior-to-wearing-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Barefoot parikram\u0101 of Govardhana is superior to wearing shoes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/15357148.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/15357148-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/15357148-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/15357148-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/15357148.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/15357148-728x546.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/15357148-364x273.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes devotees think that barefoot parikram\u0101 of Govardhana is superior to wearing shoes, or that walking is superior to taking a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>One should not consider one type of parikram\u0101 as superior to another.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Srila Jiva Goswami says in the Gop\u0101la-camp\u016b (P\u016brva, 15):<\/p>\n<p>n\u0101tr\u0101py a\u1e45ghri-kr\u0101mit\u0101va\u015byakatva\u1e41<br \/>\nsvacchandatv\u0101d y\u0101nam apy atra di\u1e63\u1e6dam<br \/>\n&#8220;It is not required that the parikram\u0101 should be performed by foot. One can also take a vehicle (and obtain the same result)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes devotees think that barefoot parikram\u0101 of Govardhana is superior to wearing shoes, or that walking is superior to taking a vehicle. One should not consider one type of parikram\u0101 as superior to another. &nbsp; Srila &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/barefoot-parikrama-of-govardhana-is-superior-to-wearing-shoes\/\" aria-label=\"Barefoot parikram\u0101 of Govardhana is superior to wearing shoes?\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 09:37:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}