{"id":615,"date":"2001-03-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-03-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/03\/20\/2001-03-20-padayatra-to-retrace-footsteps-of-adi-shankara\/"},"modified":"2001-03-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-03-20T12:00:00","slug":"2001-03-20-padayatra-to-retrace-footsteps-of-adi-shankara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/03\/20\/2001-03-20-padayatra-to-retrace-footsteps-of-adi-shankara\/","title":{"rendered":"Padayatra To Retrace Footsteps Of Adi Shankara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.timesofindia.com\/today\/19mban24.htm\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>BANGALORE, INDIA, March 19, 2001: Fifty-seven-year old Colonel S.S. Rajan set on a &#8220;padayatra&#8221; or foot journey, to cover a distance of 16,000 km in order to spread the message of peace, and to retrace the hallowed footsteps of Adi Shankara, as part of the spiritual renaissance. &#8220;Walking has its own challenges,&#8221; says the retired additional chief engineer of the Army. &#8220;This is my tapasya (spiritual austerity),&#8221; he said. In a span of two-and-a-half years he will be visiting 180 places including sites in Pakistan and Bangladesh. &#8220;The aim is to promote unity in every corner of the sub-continent,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE BANGALORE, INDIA, March 19, 2001: Fifty-seven-year old Colonel S.S. Rajan set on a &#8220;padayatra&#8221; or foot journey,,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}