New Vrindaban Brijabasi Spirit

by Bhakta-Chris At a recent Wednesday night kirtan-katha-prasad program for our lovely friends in Athens, Ohio, I had a very interesting discussion with an older gentleman in attendance. He was mildly eccentric, believed in many practical aspects of Krsna consciousness (like living with the land), and had even spent some time in New Vrindaban Dham. […]

This Thursday, the 8th, from 5-630 pm, New Vrindaban will be happy to host a group of fifty students coming to us via a volunteer tour on behalf of the Wheeling Soup Kitchen. They will be treated to a series of Krsna conscious workshops from some of our most esteemed colleagues of devotional service. Here’s […]

Hitting the airwaves of the world is our very own Jagadish Caitanya Prabhu, an eternal resident of New Vrindaban Dham currently finishing his graduate studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His freeform music-talk show “Stay High Forever” airs every Tuesday afternoon from noon-3pm Central time on WCBN-FM. You can listen to him […]

by Bimbadhara dasa From July 1978 Issue of the Brijabasi Spirit The maintenance garage at Bahulaban is the site of practically all the main­tenance and repair work done in our zone. From here are supplied tools and materials for Prabhupada’s Palace and elsewhere. Due in part to our unparal­leled accident record, this has become the […]

New Vrindaban was truly blessed by a wonderful and auspicious Gaura Purnima festival. All glories to the many devotees who organized, cooked, acted, and sang so well, all glories to our wondrous guests who shook our temple floor with their ecstatic dance-steps, and all glories to Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu, for His unlimited causeless mercy […]

Srila Jiva Goswami dasa Brave little Agni Dhama! That diminutive house was divided into four apartments. There were two downstairs with a shared bath between them, and two upstairs with a similar arrangement. Three families lived there, and I had a single front room with a desk as my only furniture. Dear Reader, I’ve never […]

Total Lunar Eclipse This is truly one of the heights of auspiciousness, reflecting the astronomical conditions present at the time that Lord Caitanya advented just over 500 years ago in Navadvipa. Who’s up for a slightly polar-bearish dip in the lake to really live one of the pastimes of our beautiful Golden Avatar? “It’s not […]

1 cup unsalted butter 2 cups sifted chick-pea flour 2 cups sifted confectioner’s sugar 1 1/3 cups dry shredded coconut 1/2 cup chopped walnuts or almonds (unsalted) Melt butter in frying pan. Slowly add sifted chick­ pea flour. Stir continually until chick-pea flour is roasted and turns a bit darker. Add coconut and ‘stir a […]

Anytime from late June thru August, our the Peacocks loose all their long tail feathers, and then over the long cold winter, the new feathers gradually grow back to full length.