Brijabasi Spirit

Wednesday, August 5 2009 Please join us to celebrate Balarama’s Appearance day 2009 4:30-5:00 pm- Special Preformance by Devananda Pandit 5:00-5:30 pm- Bhajans- Rasa Chaitanya das 5:30-6:00 pm- Abhiseka 6:00-7:00 pm- Lecture (tentative speaker- HH Varsana Maharaja) 7:00-7:45 pm- Gaura Arati- 7:45 pm- Pinata (children 11 years and younger) 8:00 pm- Feast It is requested [...]

June 20th 2009 The event we’ve all been waiting for. The third annual 24 Hour Kirtan in New Vrindaban. This year promises to be even bigger and better than before. What is the 24 Hour Kirtan Festival? The New Vrindaban 24 Hour Kirtan Festival started in 2007. The idea is to chant the Hare Krishna [...]

Dear Devotees, Please accept our respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. It is our pleasure to invite all of you to join us for small satsang program for the birth of our second child Krsnanand. His Holiness Varsana Swami will speak on this occasion and the program will be followed with Dinner Prasadam. Following [...]

Date: June 22, 2008 (immediately after the 24 Hour Kirtana) Verse: Nectar of Instruction, Text 8 Speaker: HH Radhanath Swami Location: New Vrindaban, WV, USA Courtesy of Ekendra Prabhu, you can download the audio file (19MB but not the best quality) of this lecture from: here Right click on “Radhanatha_08-06-22.mp3″ and “Save Link/Target As.” ____________________________________________________________________________ [...]

by Malati dd Dear Devotees: Hare Krishna! Lord Jagannath’s Rathyatra Festival will be celebrated on Saturday July 12th in New Vrindaban beginning promptly at 11 am by the usual venue near Rupanuga and Vani’s home, across the road from Nityo Dita’s. We hope to offer a colorful lively event for the pleasure of the Lord [...]

(From Brijabasi Spirit (1976) Vol III #9) Sometimes the thought occurs that actually it is the cows who are protecting us instead of vice versa. From a material standpoint, I don’t think any of us would want to go through the trouble of rais­ing cows. It’s not a big money-mak­ing enterprise and it involves so [...]

(fall 1984) by Premarnava “The present Krsna consciousness movement follows the same principle, and therefore simply by chanting and danc­ing we have received good responses all over the world. It is to be understood, however, that his chanting and dancing do not belong to this material world. They are transcendental activities, for the more one [...]

If you take Srila Prabhupada’s naming of New Vrindaban as the official authorized start, then today is the 40th anniversary of NV. While the second page of the letter wherein SP named NV was missing from the archives, its existence was well known in NV. It has been cited in at least 3 Brijabasi Spirit [...]

From the March 1977 Issue of the Brijabasi Spirit by Taru dasa What’s brainwashing? How does it differ from ordinary educa­tion? It might be rather difficult to come up with a precise defini­tion since this word is thrown around with great abandon. General­ly it implies forcing a man to change his beliefs against his will [...]

by Chakra Pani dasa, from the Sept. 1981 Issue of the Brijabasi Spirit On July 12th, another phase of Vrindaban history opened. Big Lord Jagannath, feeling grievously homesick, decided to stay in Vrin­daban after the culmination of the usual cold He usually gets at this time of the year. Not having room to sit next [...]

by Taru dasa, from the February 1978 Issue of the Brijabasi Spirit ISKCON’s champion milker, Sarasvati, came fresh for the fourth time in the beginning of January. Last lactation she established, at 116 pounds, the record for one day’s production for an ISKCON mother. This season she set out rapidly to demolish all her previous [...]

by Vrindapati das from the Feb. 1979 Issue of the Brijabasi Spirit There they were, the ”weird baldies” Joe had warned us about. They appeared very odd but harmless as they jumped around in the field. Joe was an elderly fellow who drew a. lot of attention and respect as one of the established hippies [...]

by Suchitra devi dasi, as taken from the November Issue of the 1977 Brijabasi Spirit  ITEM: Since becoming the official women’s asrama of New Vrindaban, Madhuban temple has shown a new face. Although an outpost in certain respects, Madhuban’s core has always been rigorous devotion.  For example, after a genuine ice cold shower at 2 [...]

As Taken from the Oct. 1978 Issue of the Brijabasi Spirit:            The following was compiled from an interview with Kasyapa dasa wherein we talked about how he came to Krsna Consciousness and about his two major engagements-dressing Lord Jagannatha and driving a bulldozer.           I was always real attached to animals because that [...]

From March 16, 1975 issue of the Brijabasi Spirit I must write this down now As I awaken from my dream There was Krsna calling me Through the sunlight’s golden stream You are back in My Home now Back in My arms I am the God you sought The relief from all harm It is [...]

From the July 14, 1975 issue of the Brijabasi Spirit by Ganendra dasa All Glories to Srila Prabhupada! Have you ever had a feeling right down in your bones that something inauspicious was about to happen? Well, last week Bhakta Kurt and I got up at one o’clock as usual in the morning to go [...]