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So please work very hard to make New Vrindaban grow


Sunday, 8 November, 1970 Bombay My Dear Hayagriva, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 27, Sept. I’m very pleased that you’re opening a nice center in the important city of Pittsburgh. Please develop the Pittsburgh and New Vrindaban plan conjointly. If Pittsburgh center can help contribute financially to […]

Bhakta Seva’s Family


This is a picture of Bhakta Seva with his family taken at the temple sometime in the late Eighties, I would guess. He is second from the left in the back row. The whole family was initiated together, as can be seen by the post fire sacrifice ash mark on their foreheads. His father spent […]

In Honor of Bhakta Seva


After learning of the passing of a great devotee, Bhakta Seva, Mother Malati called and asked me if I would like to attend the cremation in Moundsville on Wednesday. I quickly showered and drove down to the Funeral Home. There already were Malati, Nityodita prabhu, Rukmavati, Bhaktin Evelyn, Bhaktin Alicia, and Prema Bhakti. Bhakta Seva […]

Memories About Janakanath Prabhu


submitted by Jiva Gosvami das (Jesse) In the late ‘70s, one Bhakta Jesse, having just read “The Bhagavada Gita As It Is,” by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, approached the Hare Krsna Temple in Columbus Ohio, with the intention of becoming just like The Devotees. One of the first Devotees Jesse saw was […]