New Vrindaban Brijabasi Spirit

(Second in a series of five or six continuing articles (Sections) by Taru as taken from old Brijabasi Spirits, from the 1970s) Adventures in Prasadam Land: In one sense, New Vrindaban never changes. Radha Vrindaban Chandra are always here, Kirtanananda Maharaj is always telling us to give up our sense gratification, surrender to Krishna and […]

(the first in a series of six continuing articles (Sections) by Taru as taken from the Brijabasi Spirit from the 1970s) Section. 1 Prasadam is All-Attractive Someday the masses of people are going to find out about prasadam. It’s inevitable. Prasadam is all-attractive, who could resist it? No matter who you are there’s some variety […]

by Bhavisyat dasa  ( from Sept, 1981 Issue of the Brijabasi Spirit) Lord Balarama, Subadhra and Lord Jagannatha on Their way back to Vrindaban         When New Vrindaban is mentioned to any devotee in ISKCON these days, there is virtual certainty that he will automatically think of Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold, Radha-Vrindaban Candra and Srila […]

by Haridhama dasa (from Sept. 1981 Issue of the Brijabasi Spirit) Today, while walking, chanting, a leaf, recently fallen, wafted by a gentle breeze, drifted across my path. Red, golden, sepia hues nearly glowing… I thought, ‘Ah, there’s beauty even in death.’ Walking on, sometimes chanting, sometimes thinking, death on my mind… sunlight twinkling through […]

( from May 18, 1975 Issue of the Brijabasi Spirit ) by Madhava Gosh dasa “I think that we should all go to the forest known as Vrndavana, where just now there are newly grown plants and herbs.”—KRSNA BOOK We took the first cutting of comfrey this week. The best time to take it is […]

(from June, 1981 Issue of the Brijabasi Spirit) (left to right: Lokamangala dasa, Sankirtana dasa and Ganendra dasa) “The Transcendental Actor Thinks, Feels and Relates to Krsna” Last week, the Brijabasi Players journeyed to New York City to participate in the First North American Asian Indian Drama Festival. The festival was held at Columbia University […]

by Taru dasa (from an undated Brijabasi Spirit, sometime from 1976 thru 77) I remember walking into the barn here for the first time. In those days the cows were using only half of it. When you came in the front door there were 3 or 4 horses standing in their stalls. The horses always […]

by Kaviraja Goswami dasa (from the June 1981 Issue of the Brijabasi Spirit)         As I walked along, I tried to understand how the woods surrounding me were actually non-different from the forests in which Lord Krishna exhibited His childhood pastimes. I remembered reading in one of Srila Prabhupada’s purports that New Vrindaban, Gokula Vrindaban, […]

By Bhavisyat dasa (from June 1981 Issue of the Brijabasi Spirit)      We learn from Bhagavad-gita that the material world is a combination of the three modes of material nature. A liquor shop is in the mode of ignorance, a city is in the mode of passion, and the forest is in the mode of […]

by Raghunatha das from the April 1979 Issue of the Brijabasi Spirit So, before I begin, let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master, His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada, and then unto his perfect servant Srila Kirtanananda Swami, and thirdly unto all the great souls and Vaisnavas who have […]