New Vrindaban Brijabasi Spirit

Srila Prabhupada: “Yes. Anything grown in the garden, that is hundred times [more] valuable than [if] it is purchased from the market.” Click here to read and/or listen to the rest of the conversation at the Vanipedia website.

This week’s challenge: Who are the two devotees, what are they doing and when was this photo taken? What to do: Post your guesses on the “who, what, when, where & why” in the comment section at the Brijabasi Spirit website. Follow Up Here’s the info we have:Who (from let to right): Ruci & Sudarshan. What: An academic teacher instructing her […]

SIX YEARS OLD and continuing to expand, New Vrindaban, the Hare Krishna movement’s model agricultural community dedicated to “plain living and high thinking,” now extends for some 1,000 acres in the hills of West Virginia. Although most of ISKCON’s centers are located in heavily populated cities, the Society has established this simple spiritual village to […]

With their backs to the camera, it’s difficult to see who the two devotees are. Same with the horses. Hopefully someone can ID them. This week’s challenge: Where and when was this photo taken? What to do: Post your guesses on the “who, what, when, where & why” in the comment section at the Brijabasi Spirit website.

Prabhupada: So everyone is getting milk? How much? Kirtanananda: As much as they want. Prabhupada: As much as they want, then jaundice (laughter). Too much is not good. They may take minimum half pound per head [daily]. Kirtanananda: Minimum. Prabhupada: Minimum. And maximum one pound. Not more than that. But “Because there is enough, let […]

This week’s challenge: Who is this Brijabasi, what is she doing & what year were these photos taken? What to do: Post your guesses on the “who, what, when, where & why” in the comment section at the Brijabasi Spirit website.

  “Anyway, learn to love this natural mode of life, life in a wide-open space. Produce your own grain; produce your own milk; save time; chant Hare Krishna; glorify the Lord’s holy names; at life’s end, go back to the spiritual world to live forever. Plain living, high thinking — [this is an] ideal life.” […]

This week’s challenge: Who are the two people and what are they doing? Extra credit: When and where was this photo taken? What to do: Post your guesses on the “who, what, when, where & why” in the comment section at the Brijabasi Spirit website.

The late summer has brought us a bounty of vegetables and a mountain of work preparing for the fall.  The teaching garden is filled with fall colors as the mums, calendula, daisies, and lilies have begun to bloom.  As the summer flowers and vegetables have completed their season the beds containing annual flowers (one that […]

This week’s challenge: Who are the two main people and what are they doing? Extra credit: Can you name the other five people? Extra, extra credit: When and where was this photo taken? What to do: Post your guesses on the “who, what, when, where & why” in the comment section at the New Vrindaban Facebook Page.