New Vrindaban Brijabasi Spirit

by Bhakta-Chris Listen, I can’t fight it anymore. I had to start my own blog. Don’t think I’m abandoning my duties here at Brijabasi Spirit. Actually, just the opposite. Now, those who come to Brijabasi Spirit will become oversaturated with my ramblings, pictures, and assorted news items. I blame it on everyone else here at […]

by Madhava Gosh While compelling arguments are made for veganism, examining them closely we see that most fall into the category of relative truth. On the other hand, while the case for cow protection is truth of an absolute nature, it does not provide justification for drinking milk in every circumstance. “Krsna is the Absolute […]

The New Vrindavan Theater Troupe celebrated its Gaura Purnima (and soon-to-Broadway!…maybe) production of “Caitanya-Lila” this past Thursday night with a heavenly Ekadasi feast at the abode of Damodar Prabhu and Mother Gopa. All glories to Mother Gopa’s cooking shakti! It made the day’s fast well worth the dizziness, spacing-out, and irritable service attitude for this […]

Dread Splash (bucket hits the ground in shock) That sweet smell, barn-lila, dripping noses and udders Metal cranes wrought-iron Dropping into vats of gold He said “7 temples…seven hills” We could finish it as soon as tomorrow! Honeybees buzzing in devotion So all the deer appreciate Locked away, hellish winter But the warden smells of […]

(For articles and information relating to environmental concerns that are important to our devotional practice and service, please check out the new and improved Simple Living and High Thinking bulleting board, located in the Prasadam Room.) We eat a lot of rice here at New Vrindaban. Personally, when I think of prasad, I think of […]

by Bhakta-Chris At a recent Wednesday night kirtan-katha-prasad program for our lovely friends in Athens, Ohio, I had a very interesting discussion with an older gentleman in attendance. He was mildly eccentric, believed in many practical aspects of Krsna consciousness (like living with the land), and had even spent some time in New Vrindaban Dham. […]

This Thursday, the 8th, from 5-630 pm, New Vrindaban will be happy to host a group of fifty students coming to us via a volunteer tour on behalf of the Wheeling Soup Kitchen. They will be treated to a series of Krsna conscious workshops from some of our most esteemed colleagues of devotional service. Here’s […]

Hitting the airwaves of the world is our very own Jagadish Caitanya Prabhu, an eternal resident of New Vrindaban Dham currently finishing his graduate studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His freeform music-talk show “Stay High Forever” airs every Tuesday afternoon from noon-3pm Central time on WCBN-FM. You can listen to him […]

New Vrindaban was truly blessed by a wonderful and auspicious Gaura Purnima festival. All glories to the many devotees who organized, cooked, acted, and sang so well, all glories to our wondrous guests who shook our temple floor with their ecstatic dance-steps, and all glories to Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu, for His unlimited causeless mercy […]