New Vrindaban Brijabasi Spirit

  Srila Prabhupada Visits New Vrindaban – June 25th, 1976. Excerpt from Hari Sauri’s Trancendental Diary. No morning walk today. It seems that mornings are the worst for His Divine Grace’s health. Nevertheless, he attended the program in the temple and gave class. * * * At eleven thirty Ganendra prabhu came and massaged Prabhupada’s […]

Srila Prabhupada Visits New Vrindaban – June 24th, 1976. Excerpt from Hari Sauri’s Trancendental Diary. Because of his continued heart palpitations Srila Prabhupada did not feel well enough to take his daily walk. Instead he remained in his room and talked for a while with myself, Pusta Krsna and Kirtanananda Maharajas. Still, for the sake […]

Srila Prabhupada Visits New Vrindaban – June 22nd, 1976. Excerpt from Hari Sauri’s Trancendental Diary. New Vrindaban is spread out over a large area, and each section is called by a different name corresponding to the twelve different forests or vanas, of the original Vrndavana. Prabhupada took his morning walk along a dirt road in […]

Srila Prabhupada Visits New Vrindaban – June 21st, 1976. Excerpt from Hari Sauri’s Trancendental Diary. Srila Prabhupada’s arrival caused quite a stir in the small Pittsburgh airport. Our fellow passengers looked on with obvious bemusement as Kirtanananda Swami and a group of forty or fifty devotees gathered around the boarding gate, offering him beautiful flower […]

  From a series of letters written by Srila Prabhupada outlining his vision for New Vrindaban. Thanks to Vanipedia for the source material. —————————————————————— June 14th, 1968. My Dear Hayagriva, Please accept my blessings. I was just expecting your letter since I have come here from Boston. I have already informed you about my successful program in Boston, […]

New Vrindaban: The Spiritual Frontier  Back To Godhead Article – June 1974 By Vishaka devi dasi By His inconceivable potency, the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna appeared 5,000 years ago as a cowherd boy in the village of Vrindavan, India. The devotees of the Hare Krishna movement, therefore, who have established a 1,000 acre Krishna conscious […]

Hari Sauri Recalls Srila Prabhupada Reuniting with Kaliya, New Vrindaban’s First Cow. Hari Sauri’s diary: New Vrindaban, West Virginia 06-28-1976 This morning Kirtanananda Maharaja arrived in his pickup to drive Srila Prabhupada up to the original New Vrindaban farm where the community first started. Srila Prabhupada sat in the cab while devotees scrambled up into […]

  An excerpt of an article, written by Madhava Smullen, titled “ECOV: A Dynamic Solution to a Modern Dilemma.” The first cow protection program that Srila Prabhupada established in the Western World was in the rural community of ISKCON New Vrindaban—named after Krishna’s village and nestled in the hills of West Virginia. “Krishna by His […]

Prabhupada at New Vrindaban Back To Godhead Article October 1969 His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada arrived at New Vrindaban, West Virginia on the morning of May 21st, 1969. It was his first visit to the mountain ashram, which is the first community in the West dedicated to Krishna conscious living. Prabhupada walked swiftly […]

New Vrindaban: The West’s First Krishna Conscious Community Back to Godhead Magazine article – May 1971 By Hayagriva Dasa Adhikari “You have New York, New England, and so many ‘New’ duplicates of European countries in the USA, why not import New Vrindaban in your country?” (Srila Prabhupada, Letter, 3/17/68) Within the past three years communes […]