New Vrindaban Brijabasi Spirit

New Vrindaban’s Transcendental “Throwback Thursday” – 02/20/14. Each week we highlight an earlier era of ISKCON New Vrindaban. This week’s challenge: There are nine devotees in the photo. Who can correctly identify them all? Post your guesses on the “who, what, when & where” in the comment section at the New Vrindaban Facebook Page. Technical stuff: […]

If you leave Vrndavana, if you leave this forest of kalpa-vrksa trees and go to another forest, if you stop talking about the nectar of Vrndavana and take pleasure in other talks, then, knowingly throwing away the sweetest nectar, you desire to eat dog-stool. [Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana-dhama by Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati […]

Video of Ananta Govinda leading New Vrindaban’s 24 Hour Kirtan – June 15th, 2013.

Impersonal liberation is bitter, the objects of the senses shine like a fearful hell, sense pleasures are great flames of virulent poison, all great demigods are insects, and yogic powers are mirages, now that my heart is intoxicated by tasting the sweet nectar of Vrndavana. [Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana-dhama by Srila Prabodhananda […]

Thinking of all women as mother, thinking all moving and non-moving living entities worshipable, thinking all material opulences valueless things that wither the face and the heart, not thinking myself the owner of my material body, wife, wealth, and sons and thinking my enemies are friends, may I, even in the greatest suffering, remain always […]

Dressed in a kaupina and kantha, living by eating fruit fallen from the trees, not speaking useless words, not passing the time in useless deeds, abandoning all pride, going to each house to beg a little alms, and following those for whom Sri Radhika is their entire life, I will live in Vrndavana. [Source : […]

Bob Wilkinson, an independant WV film maker, put together this 5 minute video about Srila Prabhupada’s Palace. It includes commentary about the history of the Palace and New Vrindaban by Soma dasa, Param Dhama dasi and Sankirtan dasa.

If people criticize me, what is that? If I become the poorest of the poor, barely able to eke out a living for my family, what is that? If all calamities befall me, what is that? If I do not serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead, what is that? I will patiently remain in Sri […]

What is this wonderful thing? I don’t know. The crowns of the Vedas lovingly glorify it. Krsna eternally serves it. It is the source of the sweetest nectar of love. Is it a creation of the most wonderful nectar of intense bliss, or is it the purifying land of Vrndavana. [Source : Nectarean Glories of […]

Advaita and Madri shared the photo and detailed story below: Follow up on a Throwback Thursday’s picture of two young boys with oxen. Photo supplied by Judy Logsden, Floyd’s daughter. A few weeks after arriving in New Vrndavan at the end of 1973 I was incorporated into what was then referred to as the “plough department.” Although […]