Author Archives for Vrindavana Das

The Great Mantra


Courtesy of The Post, the student newspaper at Ohio University, check out this article about the recent visit by the kids from the Global Leadership Center, run by Dr. Greg Emery, a longtime friend of the New Vrindaban Community. Click this link to read the article.

“Burn Ravana! Burn Lust!”


This past weekend was chock-full! We here at the New Vrindaban Community celebrated Ramacandra Vijayotsava (“The Burning of Ravana”) in our usual harvest style, as a 15-foot high wooden sculpture of Ravana was expertly cut, painted, and assembled by the hands of HG Rupanuga Prabhu, all with the intention of shooting a flaming arrow into […]

Halloween Harinama!


  HALLOWEEN   HARINAMA!!!   starring Lord Jagannath!   The fun happens this Saturday night, October 27th in Athens, Ohio, home of Ohio University. Dress in devotional gear or your most transcendental costume. For all the info, please see Chaitanya Das or Bhakta-Chris. We will be leaving early Saturday evening and arriving around 8pm. Bwahahahaha! […]

New Vrindaban SB Class Schedule


Friday: HG Malati devi dasi Saturday: HG Janak Mahajan das Sunday, Sept. 16: HG Kripamaya das Monday: HG Arcana devi dasi Tuesday: HG Syamsundar das Wednesday: HG Shankarananda das Thursday: HG Malati devi dasi* (possibly out of town) Friday: HG Soma das Saturday (ekadasi b.f.:6:13-10:11am): HG Balaram Candra das Sunday, Sept. 23 (Vamana dwadasi): HG […]

Club108 Newsletter (Volume 1 – Issue 1)


Click on the Image to see full size image or read the text only version below… Enjoy! ****CLUB108 NEWSLETTER (VOLUME 1 – ISSUE 1)***** Sight – Sound – Vision – Multimedia Outreach – “Where East Meets West” POWER-POINT PRESENTATIONS ON JANMASTAMI Club108 was pleased to unveil its multimedia offerings for the New Vrindaban Community by […]

World Holy Name Day


Monday, September 17th, the day Srila Prabhupada arrived in America, has been designated as “World Holy Name Day”. Either on this day, or on the following weekend (September 22-23), devotees are requested to make an extra effort to spread the holy names. The New Vrindaban community will be taking part by holding an all-day kirtan […]

Vegan Cooking Is Alive! Now Eating Its Way to Pittsburgh!


by Caitanya Das College outreach begins again:while arranging the cooking class at University of Pittsburgh last week, I am getting bounced around form bureaucrat to bureaucrat, drowning in a deluge of red tape and rhetoric. Everyone is blowing me off. But then Krishna intervenes and sends me 2 floors down. The facility is beautiful. I […]

Devotee Appreciation and Community Building: From NVMT


Dear New Vrindavan Devotees, Please accept our humble obeisance’s. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. “We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the Brijabasi’s for heir wonderful service to New Vrindavan. It is because of all of you, with your sincere desire to serve the order of Srila Prabhupada, that New Vrindavan […]

Schedule for Janmashtami Celebrations – Sept. 1st, 2nd, 8th


Please note: The actual day of Janmashtami is Tuesday September 4th… Click to enlarge and print out. Your Servants, Congregational Dept., NVMT & Arya Siddhanta dasa

Best Vacation Ever…


I had the opportunity to spend much of the our Janmastami Festival weekend with two devotees from Toronto, Jaganatha Misra and Rajasuya Prabhus. They came with their families to New Vrindaban dhama to bathe the Lord, get association from the Vaisnavas and chant the holy name. On Saturday morning we all walked up to Sri […]