Brijabasi Spirit

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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 […]

Written by Hrishikesh (Henry Doktorski)
Many thanks to MG for posting the photograph of Radhanath Swami with United States Congressman from West Virginia Alan Mollohan and other guests and dignitaries. If I am not mistaken, that is West Virginia House of Delegates member Thais Blatnik behind him.
Exact date of photo was May […]

The current RVC temple was opened in 1983 with a lavish installation ceremony that was well attended and publicized. At that point, it still seemed that New Vrindaban would become the successful place of pilgrimage in the West that Srila Prabhupada had envisioned.

This is a picture from the installation festivities showing Radhanath Swami giving […]

By Hladini Devi Dasi
O-Dirt—You’ve been plaguing my life since time immemorial!
O-Dirt—I know you’ve become attached-But PLEASE GET OUT OF MY LIFE!!!
I’ve consulted the most ardent authorities as to how to rid myself of you-
But I turn my back, and you are once again embracing my torn and ragged self.
WHAT MUST I DO??? To become free […]

by mrupa
In the earlier days, Mud was a personality in its own right in the universal form of the dhama.
Mud was almost all pervasive; it didn’t only live behind the cow barn, but one step out of any doorway. A throughway of it ran down the middle of Bahulavan and poured down two driveways […]