Brijabasi Spirit

(Ed. note: read Hari Bhakta’s (her husband) blog update here)
by Gokulataruni dd

Two days ago I woke up to a phone call telling me that Gopi Lila passed away. Though I knew that this was coming it still came as a surprise. She was someone that was dearly loved by the devotees in our community, […]

On Tuesday April 22nd the kids took a vote on what vegetables they would like to plant in their garden. The following six vegetables were the winners:tomatoes, beans, basil, cilantro, swiss chard and spinach.
After voting. the lkds, led by Bindu and Lalita Gopi, walked up to the garden of Seven Gates to pull out the […]

by Bindu Sarovara Dasi, April 15th.
A tour of the garden followed by a taste test of the herbs they observed
constituted the class for Thursday. What did they see and what did they eat?
Tapa-Punja led the kids through the teaching garden to see the infamous Stinging Nettle and the notorious Dandelion weed. […]

by mrupa
Amburish, the pre-eminent New Vrindavana cowherd boy, wrote this song as part of our Govardhan Puja celebration one year.
Each year the devotees would spend a few days cleaning and whitewashing the barn at Bahulavana.
Amburish had trained the cow herd to come into the barn for milking and feeding when he played the […]

by Tapapunjah das
The students from New Vrindaban’s home schooling co-op braved the windy, rainy weather conditions last Friday to descend on the Teaching Garden for their second of twenty two outdoor classes called, “Lessons in Nature.”
“They’re very enthusiastic and really learning some valuable life skills,”said Bindu Sarovara Dasi, who is helping to organize the […]

Waiting for company to drop by.

This past weekend, two intrepid reporters from Ohio University’s student-run indepedent newspaper The Post, Rob (the photographer) and Eric (the reporter), visited the Dham in order to meet devotees and do research for their thesis paper on the inner workings of an intentional community (they are also visiting a Mennonite community, an all-woman community, and […]

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 […]

Listen to this lecture given Jan 19 , 2008 in Chowpatty by former (and eternal) New Vrindaban cowherd boy, Radhanath Swami. A long lecture but well worth the time as it is germane to the future of New Vrindaban in particular, and to the world in general in its present state.
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Applying Krishna Consciousness to Everyday Life
by Tapapunja das
 Welcome to New Vrindaban Community!
 The Vedic Heritage Seminar Series is designed to stimulate dialogue about life’s everyday practical challenges. People of Indian descent, who now live in America, are often faced with tough choices. “Do I follow my Indian spiritual heritage or conform to “less spiritual” Western codes […]

by mrupa
I’ve been following Laksmi’s progress and was encouraged a few days ago when it looked like she might recover. That she had such a rally is a miracle in itself. I am sure it is due to the care she is receiving. I was also struck by your comment about seeing ‘that’ in agriculture; […]

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 and herd […]

by mrupa
It has been one year since devotees got the sad email that our dear Godbrother, Bhakta Seva had passed away alone in his apartment.
Bhakta Seva lived in New Vrindavana many years after coming here with his parents and one of his sisters. His father left his body here quite some years back.
He […]

I was feeling sleepy during japa this morning, but then I remembered that Tapahpunja Prabhu had mentioned how the teaching garden was a good place to peacefully chant rounds. So I moseyed on across the street and slipped through the side gate into my little get away. What a variety of loving devotion I found […]

Surabhi, a Guernsey, had a heifer calf Friday June 8th. Mother and daughter are fine and together in the temple barn.

Ravindra Swarupa, Malati, and Chaitanya Bhagvat Prabhus have darshan of the new calf.

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 […]