Brijabasi Spirit

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We eat a lot of rice here at New Vrindaban. Personally, when I think of prasad, I think of moist, […]

Photos courtesy of Balaji.
Last summer beavers moved into the pond on the lower road to the Vrindaban farm. Late in the fall, they moved out, but I suspect they will be back in the spring. Beavers were stocked on Wheeling Creek 10-20 years ago and they are spreading.
Here is their house:

First they cut down […]

By Srila Jiva Goswami dasa
My dear Eyes and Ears; Please accept my worthless obeisances at your lotus feet.
I was (am) one of those guys who read too much of what I can. It wasn’t until 1998 that I realized why I’d never heard anyone say, “Par-a-dijim.” (Paradigm)
Having bumped into “The […]

(from the Bahulaban Deity Cookbook, compiled in the 1970’s)Ingredients:
1 Tbs. Salt
1 Tsp. Pepper
11/2 Tsp. Asafoetida
1 1/2 Tsp. Tumeric
3 Tbsp. Ghee
Cup Cauliflower in Tiny Flowerettes
3 Cups Cooked Rice
Fresh Chopped Coriander Leaves
Sprinkle Spices In Ghee And Pan Fry.
Add Cauliflower Bits and Pan Fry Until Tender.
Cover Pan Half Of Cooking Time.
Stir In Rice And Cook For 3 […]

by Mother Rupa dd
For many many months after Srila Prabhupada left the planet it was customary for devotees to drive up to Srila Prabhupada’s mangala arotik and then drive back down to Bahulaban for the morning program with Radha Vrindavan Chandra.
During those days I often used broken down vehicles to sleep in over night. Sometimes […]

Around noon today the snow had quit falling (again), leaving everything peacefully quiet and brighty white. This pic was taken just in front of Radha-VrindabanChandras’ Temple, looking towards the Guest House. 

Dear Devotees,
We would to thank all of you for participating in celebration of the Most
Auspicious Appearance day of Gauranga Mahaprabhu.
We hope you all enjoyed our short but spiritually charged program.
Especially we would like to extend our gratitude and congratulations to the
following devotees, who had worked very hard to please all of us and the
Lord.
* Rupanuga […]

by Bhakta-Chris
At a recent Wednesday night kirtan-katha-prasad program for our lovely friends in Athens, Ohio, I had a very interesting discussion with an older gentleman in attendance. He was mildly eccentric, believed in many practical aspects of Krsna consciousness (like living with the land), and had even spent some time in New Vrindaban Dham. He […]

This Thursday, the 8th, from 5-630 pm, New Vrindaban will be happy to host a group of fifty students coming to us via a volunteer tour on behalf of the Wheeling Soup Kitchen. They will be treated to a series of Krsna conscious workshops from some of our most esteemed colleagues of devotional service. […]

Hitting the airwaves of the world is our very own Jagadish Caitanya Prabhu, an eternal resident of New Vrindaban Dham currently finishing his graduate studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His freeform music-talk show “Stay High Forever” airs every Tuesday afternoon from noon-3pm Central time on WCBN-FM. You can listen to […]

by Bimbadhara dasa
From July 1978 Issue of the Brijabasi Spirit
The maintenance garage at Bahulaban is the site of practically all the main­tenance and repair work done in our zone. From here are supplied tools and materials for Prabhupada’s Palace and elsewhere. Due in part to our unparal­leled accident record, this has become the largest such […]

New Vrindaban was truly blessed by a wonderful and auspicious Gaura Purnima festival. All glories to the many devotees who organized, cooked, acted, and sang so well, all glories to our wondrous guests who shook our temple floor with their ecstatic dance-steps, and all glories to Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu, for His unlimited causeless […]

Srila Jiva Goswami dasa
Brave little Agni Dhama! That diminutive house was divided into four apartments. There were two downstairs with a shared bath between them, and two upstairs with a similar arrangement. Three families lived there, and I had a single front room with a desk as my only furniture.
Dear Reader, I’ve […]

Total Lunar Eclipse
This is truly one of the heights of auspiciousness, reflecting the astronomical conditions present at the time that Lord Caitanya advented just over 500 years ago in Navadvipa. Who’s up for a slightly polar-bearish dip in the lake to really live one of the pastimes of our beautiful Golden Avatar?
“It’s not an […]