Brijabasi Spirit

Breaking and Entry
by Taru
“And when the spiritual master sees the devotees are taking bhagavat prasadam, he is satisfied” —Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakur.
If there is any other instruction which the devotees of New Vrindaban have taken up more seriously than the one above, I have yet to run across it. In their undaunted endeavors to […]

(Fourth in a series of six continuing articles (Sections) as taken from the Brijabasi Spirit from the 1970s, written by Taru dasa,.)

The Agony and the Ecstasy
In this material world everyone needs something to look forward to because generally no one is […]

(third in a series of six continuing articles (Sections) as taken from the Brijabasi Spirit from the 1970s, written by Taru dasa)
(Part 2)
Laddu Sadhu
Being addicted to Krishna prasadam is not the same as being addicted to anything else. Prasadam is completely spiritual and if anyone tastes it, he makes spiritual advancement. Still, […]

(Second in a series of five or six continuing articles (Sections) by Taru as taken from old Brijabasi Spirits, from the 1970s)
Adventures in Prasadam Land:
In one sense, New Vrindaban never changes. Radha Vrindaban Chandra are always here, Kirtanananda Maharaj is always telling us to give up our sense gratification, surrender to Krishna and get […]

(the first in a series of six continuing articles (Sections) by Taru as taken from the Brijabasi Spirit from the 1970s)
Section. 1 Prasadam is All-Attractive
Someday the masses of people are going to find out about prasadam. It’s inevitable.
Prasadam is all-attractive, who could resist it? No matter who you are […]

by Bhavisyat dasa  ( from Sept, 1981 Issue of the Brijabasi Spirit)

Lord Balarama, Subadhra and Lord Jagannatha on Their way back to Vrindaban
        When New Vrindaban is mentioned to any devotee in ISKCON these days, there is virtual certainty that he will automatically think of Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold, Radha-Vrindaban Candra […]

by Haridhama dasa
(from Sept. 1981 Issue of the Brijabasi Spirit)
Today, while walking, chanting,
a leaf, recently fallen,
wafted by a gentle breeze,
drifted across my path.
Red, golden, sepia hues
nearly glowing…
I thought, ‘Ah, there’s beauty
even in death.’
Walking on, sometimes chanting,
sometimes thinking,
death on my mind…
sunlight twinkling through the trees,
splashing me with warm rays of light,
brilliant yellow flowers
beckoning my vision […]

( from May 18, 1975 Issue of the Brijabasi Spirit )
by Madhava Gosh dasa
“I think that we should all go to the forest known as Vrndavana, where just now there are newly grown plants and herbs.”—KRSNA BOOK
We took the first cutting of comfrey this week. The best time to take it is just when the […]

(from June, 1981 Issue of the Brijabasi Spirit)

(left to right: Lokamangala dasa, Sankirtana dasa and Ganendra dasa)
“The Transcendental Actor Thinks, Feels and Relates to Krsna”
Last week, the Brijabasi Players journeyed to New York City to participate in the First North American Asian Indian Drama Festival. The festival was held at Columbia University in […]

by Taru dasa (from an undated Brijabasi Spirit, sometime from 1976 thru 77)
I remember walking into the barn here for the first time. In those days the cows were using only half of it. When you came in the front door there were 3 or 4 horses standing in their stalls. The horses always made […]

by Kaviraja Goswami dasa (from the June 1981 Issue of the Brijabasi Spirit)
        As I walked along, I tried to understand how the woods surrounding me were actually non-different from the forests in which Lord Krishna exhibited His childhood pastimes. I remembered reading in one of Srila Prabhupada’s purports that New Vrindaban, Gokula Vrindaban, and […]

By Bhavisyat dasa (from June 1981 Issue of the Brijabasi Spirit) 
    We learn from Bhagavad-gita that the material world is a combination of the three modes of material nature. A liquor shop is in the mode of ignorance, a city is in the mode of passion, and the forest is in the mode of goodness. […]

by Raghunatha das from the April 1979 Issue of the Brijabasi Spirit
So, before I begin, let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master, His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada, and then unto his perfect servant Srila Kirtanananda Swami, and thirdly unto all the great souls and Vaisnavas who have […]

Written by Puru das and taken from the April 1983 Issue of the Brijabasi Spirit
     
Pictures show Devananda on the left and Jala on the right.      
       During the “off” season the Palace staff keeps engaged. Actually there is no such thing as an “off” season in Krsna Consciousness. But this refers to that time during the winter when […]

by Kaviraja Goswami dasa from July 1981 issue of the Brijabasi Spirit
I had always heard that New Vrindaban celebrated Lord Narasinghadeva’s Appearance day with a nice festival. I wasn’t fortunate enough to see just how nice this festival is until this year. 
Many devotees were up late the night before finishing a variety of foodstuffs to […]

(from the July 14th, 1974 Issue of Brijabasi Spirit by Amburish das and Radhanatha dasa)
Bahulaban Goshalla Report
“0 bull, you are offenseless and thoroughly honest; therefore I wish all good to you” “The bull Is the emblem of the moral principle and the cow is the representative of the earth. When the bull and the cow […]