New Vrindaban Brijabasi Spirit

By Srila Jiva Goswamidasa Down at Bahulabhana, the terraced stairway to the car lot level below went right by the big sliding window installed on the side of farmhouse which was the Temple. The Temple Office was right in there. We had phones, “New Vrindabana, may I help you?” We had a desk or two. […]

By Surevara dasa (as taken from the Sept. 1977 issue of the BRIJABASI SPIRIT) Six summers ago New Vrindaban was the incense capital of ISKCON (east of the Mississippi anyway). Crates of plain sticks arrived regularly from the Far East via Los Angeles temple. Bahulaban shipped and received orders from New York to Nairobi, supplying […]

By Srila Jiva Goswami dasa When I was a kid, growing up in New York City, I frankly aspired to someday become a real garbage man. I envisioned the rattling and slamming cans, tricks with teetering, the glamorous grab rail and the swinging toe pivot. I’d be a star. Yo! More than a few years […]

by Srila Jiva Goswami dasa One of my “jobs” at Old New Vrindabana was the “Town Run.” An aspect of that Service was to ferry Devotees to and from various places: A particular store, a doctor, a Satellite Temple, like Cleveland, Pittsburgh, or our college towns such as Athens, Morgantown and Columbus. With your permission […]

by Srila Jiva Goswami dasa Murlidhara Prabhu was known throughout ISKCON as one of the great artists. The fact that he is responsible for magnificent paintings in the Palace, and for many of the great works in the Temple is yet another high marker in the transcendental record of sublime achievements from Old New Vrindabana. […]

(as Published in a 1984 Brijabasi Spirit, written by Revati Dasi) A Recollection on the Travels of the Lord as the Deity of Sri Nathaji,  the lifter of Govardhana Hill is firmly established in the western world.   According to the time, place, and circumstances, Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, incarnates Himself. There are thousands of […]

by Srila Jiva Goswami dasa One great thing about New Vrindaban then to me was the wood smoke. The hot wood burning stove, glowing up in back of the little temple. The cook kettles and oat water, long before sunrise. The Wood Smoke was everywhere upon the vibration, Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare […]

By Srila Jiva Goswami dasa So in the late ‘70s, your correspondent was a Bhakta at the Columbus Temple. Several weekends a month it was, “We’re going to New Vrindabana.” I wanted to stay in Columbus. It seemed to me that the glory at New Vrindabana cited by the Devotees, was a lot like the […]

By Srila Jiva Goswami dasa I have to go back now … back to before … to how I learned to want the taste of Devotional Service. At that time, ‘77 / ‘78I did not know the Columbus Temple, in Columbus Ohio, was a satellite Temple of the New Vrindabana Community. I’d never heard of […]

Rutabaga Renaissance: Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead! Recipes For Sustainable Living Before you read any further, let’s agree on three truths. The first truism is that Krsna loves the whole of His creation—that is, all His parts and parcels, vegetable species included. The second truism is that we neophytes must see all other life […]