New Vrindaban Brijabasi Spirit

Click here: From the San Diego Reader to watch the video. by Robert Isenberg You might not expect a Hare Krishna temple in the hills of West Virginia, but the New Vrindaban community has been an active spiritual retreat since 1968. I recently took a road trip with my friend Jen Resnick to this peculiar […]

  We will be having an Open House next Tues. March 13 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM under the Lodge in New Vrindavan.    This will be a collaborative session between the devotees and a group of enthusiastic graduate students, consisting of members of Morgantown’s WVU Community Design Team, coordinated by Jenny Selin. They have become very inspired by […]

Please note the addition of an ecstatic Bharata Natyam dance to the evening Gaura Purnima Schedule. Thank you. UPDATED GAURA PURNIMA SCHEDULE New Vrindavan Thursday March 8: 5:00 AM            Mangal Arati 5:30 AM                 NRSIMHA PRAYERS                                        5:45 AM                TULASI PRAYERS 6:00 AM                 JAPA           7:45 AM                 GURU PUJA 8:00 […]

GAURA PURNIMA SCHEDULE  Thursday March 8: Morning:                     5:00 AM                 Mangal Arati 5:30 AM                 NRSIMHA PRAYERS                                        5:45 AM                TULASI PRAYERS 6:00 AM                 JAPA 7:45 AM                 GURU PUJA 8:00 AM                GREETING THE DEITIES IN THEIR NEW    GAURA PURNIMA OUTFIT 8:30 AM                 SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM CLASS  Evening: 5:00 PM TO […]

Today we’re cleaning up the temple in preparation for Lord Caitanya’s Appearance Day Celebration to be held this Thursday March 8, 2012 in the evening. We will have the full schedule ready to post shortly. Stay tuned. Please join us if you can. Hare Krishna!

Everyone is invited to the wedding of HARICHAKRA DAS and MAHARASA DASI taking place tomorrow, Sat. Mar. 3, 2012 beginning at 10 AM and ending at the 2 PM feast at the Radha Vrindabanchandra temple.  

Here in the western world we have so many comforts, so when these amenities (such as electricity) are occasionally withdrawn we often get some realizations.  Specifically, late Mon. afternoon Feb. 27, the temple and guest lodge were plunged into darkness.  It turned out that the main transformer for the whole temple complex was bad.  Some […]

  It’s a girl! The second calf of 2012 was born yesterday, Monday Feb. 27 at 10 AM at the cow barn across from the temple in New Vrindaban. Our cowherd girl, Lalita Gopi, came in early in the morning  to milk the cows and she saw that mother cow Gomata Asha was lying down […]

Nitai’s Funeral in India by Jaya Krsna Dasa On February 15, 2012, Nitai dasa’s ashes entered the sacred Ganges at Srila Prabhupada’s Ghat in Mayapur.  Nitai’s spiritual master Radhanath Swami and his uncle Nityodita Prabhu offered the ashes into the Ganges after Jananivas Prabhu performed the final rites.                                          About one hundred devotees were present, including […]

Not Yet Mid-morning, amid mourning, the sweet sound of the soft chanting of Hare Krsna accompanied by a single drum and gently played cymbals comes closer. The kirtan party plants itself at the entrance to the Conch building where Nitai’s family is staying. Mandali, Nitai’s wife, his father Jack, his brother Dustin and mother, Carmen […]