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Caring For The Cows Before The Festival of Inspiration


Subject: Caitanya Bhagavat is coordinating some cleaning of the cows and the small barn by the temple, in preparation for the Festival of Inspiration. He will be available at the hours listed below. If you come within the first ten minutes of the posted hours, he will be at the barn and will show you […]

Nuts, Berries and Asparagus Being Planted in New Vrindaban


Hari Bhakta is funding the planting of trees and berries as a memorial to his wife. Here is the list of plants he has ordered: Trees 10 Chinese Chestnuts 8 American Chestnuts 10 Northern Pecans 5 Carpathian Walnuts ——– 33 Berries 8 Goji 3 Sandra (shizandra) 4 Elderberries Samdal 3 Gooseberries Pink 4 Gooseberries Tixia […]

A Visit To The Temple Barn


by Bhaktin Kyra If your eyes led you to this, you’ll be reading about my new adventures or discoveries of sorts as a baby devotee living in the dham. My point of view… I do not feel qualified to share this with you but see it as a service by doing so. Since the weather […]

Fall Foliage In New Vrindaban


Source. Three factors influence autumn leaf color – leaf pigments, length of night, and weather, but not quite in the way we think. The timing of color change and leaf fall are primarily regulated by the calendar, that is, the increasing length of night. None of the other environmental influences-temperature, rainfall, food supply, and so […]

This Week At The Farm Circle…


Join the Earthlings of The Dham for our weekly gathering on all things natural, as we meet, discuss, and inspire each other to bring about Srila Prabhupada’s vision of self-sufficiency here at New Vrindaban. This week we’ll meet Tuesday, September 9th at The Teaching Garden, across the street from the RVC Temple at 600 pm. […]

Simple Living, High Thinking Issue #6


For the week of July 7th-July 13th, 2008 Join us now for yet another enriching and inspiring look into the go-go farm-farm world of the Garden of Seven Gates and the Teaching Garden, all part of the Small Farm Training Center here at New Vrindaban Dham. It’s all good! For instance…. In all aspects of […]

A Self-Sufficient Darshan with HH Sivarama Swami


“R: We have a lot of second-generation devotees that are vegans because they don’t want to see the cows slaughtered, and their parents are coming to us for milk, to get their children to have that milk product. “HHSS: It just really highlights that point that we really neglected Prabhupada’s instructions and we’re painting ourselves […]

“Plain Living and High Thinking”: An English Lesson with Srila Prabhupada


The following is an excerpt from Ravindra Svarupa’s blog wherein New Vrindaban is mentioned: Any student of Srila Prabhupada will at once recognize the phrase “plain living and high thinking.” It occurred frequently and memorably in his discourse. It functioned as kind of motto or slogan to epitomize Prabhupada’s vision of a natural spiritual culture, […]

Blessed Water to Sustain Us


by Sukhavaha devi dasi Coming from New York City to New Vrindaban is quite a change. Comparatively, New York is so cramped and crowded, so many agitating noises, lack of fresh air, and it costs lots of money for water and twice that amount for disposing of that water (what goes down the drain). In […]

Prabhupada Letter Oct. 15, 1969


Tridandi Goswami A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Founder-Acharya: International Society for Krishna Consciousness October 15, 1969 My Dear Ranadhir, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 10th October, 1969 and have noted the contents carefully. In my opinion Hayagriva should maintain New Vrindaban. As an ideal grihasta he should spend at […]