New Vrindaban Brijabasi Spirit

The leader ordered one of the devotees to come up and do the same to Srimati Radharani. Kiranasa, newly initiated, refused to obey. Gang members began beating him terribly with both their rifle barrels and their fists. One of them began dragging him by his sikha jerking his head around and jokingly asking one of […]

Immediately, we took Radha Vrindavanatha and Lord Jagannatha off the altar, and hid Sri Kartamaji. At first we went up the hill in front of the temple to Hayagriva’s A frame cabin. Hayagriva was away traveling at that time. Parayana had slipped out, made her way back up top, and found us in the cabin. […]

by motherrupa It all really began on June 2. From June 2 to June 4, New Vrindavan was having the biggest festival series since fall of the year before, when Srila Prabhupada had come for Janmastami and his Vyasa Puja celebrations. During that festival Sri Sri Radha Vrindavan Chandra had moved down from Their original […]

By Jiva Goswami dasa After the first time I’d read the Bhagavada Gita As It Is, there was nothing logical to do but to surrender at the Temple. It was Vahna Prabhu who had introduced me to Krsna Consciousness, and I wanted to take up The Program in Columbus, where Vahna lived at the time. […]

By Srila Jiva Goswami dasa I think when there is a choice, the True Path may be known by its simplicity. You might know if you have strayed by how complicated things seem to be getting. It was the start of one of those most beautiful days at Old New Vrindabana. The Morning Program had […]

By Srila Jiva Goswami dasa At Old New Vrindabana, posing the classic and needful inquiries “Who am I? What is my purpose? Why am I here?” and “Where am I going?” brought fast and accurate answers. I’ll always remember and tell the way I wondered about the goat which clambered all over in the general […]

By Srila Jiva Goswami dasa Up at the Palace, I once asked for a chance to do something physical there. It was during The Construction. My Service was more in Madhava Ghosh’s (All Transcendental) Logistics Department. It was said that I was not “properly situated in Construction.” Like so many other things at New Vrindabana […]

By Srila Jiva Goswami dasa My body lies under the ocean Far under the Causal Blue Sea My body lies under the ocean Oh send forth my body from me What is this all about? As each successive material endeavor dashes upon the rocks, you’d think I’d finally give up gladly. I don’t pray for […]

By Srila Jiva Goswami dasa Different Devotees manifest different miraculous potencies. Devotees who exhibit yoga seem to me either not aware You are flying, floating, appearing in more than one place simultaneously, or You take it as normal behavior. An example of this latter circumstance is the gift of superb Powers of Persuasion, regularly manifested […]

By Srila Jiva Goswami dasa Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare! Generally, my course on the town run took me from Moundsville to Wheeling and then back through Bethlehem to State Route 88, or the other way, from Wheeling to Moundsville with a return up […]