Brijabasi Spirit

Tridandi Goswami
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Founder-Acharya:
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
August 21, 1969
My Dear Kirtanananda,
Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter of 12 August, 1969, sent along with a package of sandish. I am sorry that I was not able to see how you have nicely made […]

by Saci mata dd
This is the story of the day the N.V. management decided to give our beautiful Sita, Ram, Hanuman, Laksman Deities away. It was a gloomy day for the residents of New Vrindaban Dhama. All the mothers (well most of them) were crying, and the morning program was an extremely sad […]

by mrupa
“The thoughts of my pure devotees dwell in Me, their lives are surrendered to Me, and they derive great satisfaction and bliss enlightening one another and conversing about Me.” (Bg. 10-9)
Following this central principle plays and dramatic arrangements have always been part of ISKCON’s arsenal in its ‘cultural revolution’ […]

Tridandi Goswami
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Founder-Acharya:
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
August 6, 1969
My Dear Shama Dasi,
Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you very much for your nice letter of July 28th, 1969, and I am glad that you are working very hard in assisting your good husband. So my idea of combining you […]

Unknown date.

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 […]

Tridandi Goswami
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Founder-Acharya:
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
August 6, 1969
My Dear Hayagriva,
Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated July 28th, 1969, and I have noted the contents carefully. I am so pleased to learn of your hard work for writing Krishna Consciousness essays. […]

by mrupa
This month we will celebrate the wonderful appearance of Lord Sri Ramachandra on Sunday the 13th.
I’m not sure which year it was, but for a few months we were all constantly immersed in the pastimes of Lord Rama during the Fall even more so than in the Spring. It wasn’t exactly because of […]

Tridandi Goswami
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Founder-Acharya:
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
August 6, 1969
My Dear Devananda,
Please accept my blessings. Since I have come from New Vrindaban I have not received any letters from you. I know you are silent worker, but I always remember you. I am very much thankful […]

Tridandi Goswami
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Founder-Acharya:
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
Center TITTENHURST PARK
TITTENHURST HOUSE
Ascot, Berkshire,ENGLAND
October 11th, 1969
My Dear Kirtanananda,
Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you for you letter dated October 2, 1969 and have noted the contents carefully. Regarding your question about who shall get the money that is collected by you and your assistant, […]

By Hrishikesh dasa (Henry Doktorski)
“If you take Srila Prabhupada’s naming of New Vrindaban as the official authorized start, then today [March 17, 2008] is the 40th anniversary of NV.”(from It is Very Surprizing)
I delight in celebrations, especially celebrations of events dear to my heart, such as the 40th anniversary of the founding of the New […]

CENTER: 1975 So. La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90034
DATE……July…1…………1969
My Dear Hayagriva,
Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated June 27,1969, and I have noted the contents carefully. So far as the Sanskrit transliterations are concerned, I have done it, and am returning it herewith. Please do the needful. […]

From the VedaBase:
San Francisco
17 March, 1968
68-03-17
My Dear Hayagriva,
Please accept my blessings. I thank you very much for your letter dated March 9, 1968. I have come back to San Francisco on the 8th March, and while I was in Los Angeles for two months, I received the balance portion of Bhagavad-gita edited by you. […]

(The following letter is published courtesy of Samba, eldest son of Hayagriva. He has discovered this and about 70 other previously unpublished letters from Srila Prabhupada in his father’s effects. They are written mostly to Hayagriva himself and his wife Shyam, as well as to Kirtanananda and others)
Tridandi Goswami
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Founder-Acharya:
International Society for […]

UNTITLED
By Hladini Devi Dasi
Madhuvana ‘74
 

O yes!…You know!!!
You know better than I!!
!

But still I feel I must
…make You see!

I know…
 

You care!!!
You care more than anyone could ever care!!!
 

But still I feel I cannot
…repay Your love!!!
 

I can taste Your mercy
…in […]

by mrupa
Dropping down from the main road just in front of the old one-room school house next to the lagoon and across from the old forge, the first few yards of dirt road is both the beginning of the driveway to Mr. Snyder’s homestead along the top of the ridge, and the pathway to Vrndavana […]