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You Have a Friend


“Krsna is within you. He is sitting within your heart as a friend, not as an enemy. Krsna is always your friend. Suhrdam sarva-bhutanam [Bg. 5.29]. You are searching out friends to talk with, to joke with, to love. Krsna is sitting there for that purpose. “If you love Krsna, if you make friendship with […]

Prabhupada Visits Cows In New Vrindaban


Prabhupada Cares


From “Transcendental Diary” by Hari-sauri dasa A small but significant incident at New Vrindaban on June 26, 1976 illustrates Srila Prabhupada’s care for devotees: Shortly after eight thirty he [Prabhupada] brought the meeting to an end. As he prepared to retire to the house, he looked at one of the women, Gopalasyapriya dasi, who was […]

Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.17, New Vrindaban, 1974


Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.6, New Vrindaban, 1972


After the class Prabhupada leads an arotik kirtan and you can see Radha Vrindaban Candra, Jagannath, and a sweep of the assembled devotees, including multiple sannyasis, of  then and the future, and departed vaisnavas.

Vyasa Puja Festival, New Vrindaban, 1972


  Thanks to our reader Vajresvari who pointed out that the video was titled wrongly on YouTube and it is actually from 1972.  I have corrected the post title here at least.  

Brahmana Initiation Lecture — New Vrindaban, May 25, 1969


Prabhupada: (excerpt) So we, our… One of the items of this mission, Krishna consciousness, is to establish real varna ashram by qualification. We have to pick up brahmanas from everywhere, throughout the whole world, not that we have to pick up brahmanas in India in some class. No. There are brahmanas jn every part of […]

Prahladananda Swami: Memories of Old New Vrindaban and Cow Protection


Prahladananda Swami Speaks on cow protection and remembers the old days in New Vrindaban. Click here for audio on how Cow Protection Solves Problems

New Vrindaban Photos From the 70s


See some old photos here including one of Taru in “the Pits”.

Historical Photos of Palace Under Construction


See how it was done here.