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Laxmi Run
By Srila Jiva Goswami dasa Yes, on the Town Runs with Dodge Rama Dasa, yours truly got to pick up cases of hooded sweat shirts, sheets of plywood, PVC pipe, milk and ice cream from United Dairy, fabric from Imperial Display, nails, you name it, I got to get it. Even to the point of […]
Too Much Green Bus
By Srila Jiva Goswami dasa At first, the general rule was that if you were driving a vehicle along the main road, and you saw a Devotee, you should stop and give that Devotee a ride. Some Devotees preferred to walk. Some Devotees preferred not to stop and pick anyone up sometimes, due to being […]
She Traded Her Son for a Cheesecake
By Srila Jiva Goswami dasa Out back at the Columbus Temple Annex, we had a restaurant called “Simply Wonderful†right there on High Street. If you see the stained glass at the Palace of Gold, you aren’t surprised to read here that our New Vrindabana crafted “Simply Wonderful†sign was incredibly beautiful. Upstairs in the […]
Cheese Cake and a Local Sudarsana Chakra
by Srila Jiva Goswami dasa Let me try to describe The Prasadama Hall down at Bahulabhana, in Old New Vrindabana. It was a big rectangular room, with a marble floor. I remember three doors. One door, on the back wall, led to a shop where projects were carried out. Another door, in the front, led […]
Whimsy and the Transcendental Ire of the Head Pujari
By Srila Jiva Goswamidasa Down at Bahulabhana, the terraced stairway to the car lot level below went right by the big sliding window installed on the side of farmhouse which was the Temple. The Temple Office was right in there. We had phones, “New Vrindabana, may I help you?†We had a desk or two. […]
Maggoty and Ecstasy
By Srila Jiva Goswami dasa When I was a kid, growing up in New York City, I frankly aspired to someday become a real garbage man. I envisioned the rattling and slamming cans, tricks with teetering, the glamorous grab rail and the swinging toe pivot. I’d be a star. Yo! More than a few years […]
Purity and Circumstance
by Srila Jiva Goswami dasa One of my “jobs†at Old New Vrindabana was the “Town Run.†An aspect of that Service was to ferry Devotees to and from various places: A particular store, a doctor, a Satellite Temple, like Cleveland, Pittsburgh, or our college towns such as Athens, Morgantown and Columbus. With your permission […]
Finishing Business With An Unfinished Painting
by Srila Jiva Goswami dasa Murlidhara Prabhu was known throughout ISKCON as one of the great artists. The fact that he is responsible for magnificent paintings in the Palace, and for many of the great works in the Temple is yet another high marker in the transcendental record of sublime achievements from Old New Vrindabana. […]
Wood Smoke and Winter
by Srila Jiva Goswami dasa One great thing about New Vrindaban then to me was the wood smoke. The hot wood burning stove, glowing up in back of the little temple. The cook kettles and oat water, long before sunrise. The Wood Smoke was everywhere upon the vibration, Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare […]
The Boy Who Cried, I, Me, Mine
By Srila Jiva Goswami dasa So in the late ‘70s, your correspondent was a Bhakta at the Columbus Temple. Several weekends a month it was, “We’re going to New Vrindabana.” I wanted to stay in Columbus. It seemed to me that the glory at New Vrindabana cited by the Devotees, was a lot like the […]
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