New Vrindaban Brijabasi Spirit

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Devanda Pandit just got his two hives started up by the big garden. The one with the blue dot is the queen.

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Recently asparagus started growing in New Vrindaban. Here is a recipe for asparagus soup sent in by Devadatta das.

Looking at recipes on the web, All recommend milk and cream, most used chicken stock, A few pushed onion, NONE used potato.

I don’t Dislike creme-of -**** soups but i try to substitute/reduce the lactoid portion. Adding/increasing the potato adds body.

So here’s my offer.

1 lb asparagus
3 lg diced potatoes
2 lg stalk celery
4 tbsp butter
2 c half’n half
2 tbsp Salt + Pepper to taste

Cut asp tips and steam 5 min in separate pot. Turn off.

Cut asp wood off and stems into 1/2″ pieces

Dice celery and saute in butter in 1g pot low heat 10 m

Add 2 qt water, boil, add diced potato and salt, rolling boil 15 min

Add asp stems, rolling boil 10 min

Machine Bolt or mash

Add half’n half , asp tips and pepper, gentle boil 5 min. S+P to taste.

Hari Bhakta is funding the planting of trees and berries as a memorial to his wife. Here is the list of plants he has ordered:

Trees

10 Chinese Chestnuts
8 American Chestnuts
10 Northern Pecans
5 Carpathian Walnuts
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33

Berries

8 Goji
3 Sandra (shizandra)
4 Elderberries Samdal
3 Gooseberries Pink
4 Gooseberries Tixia (Rafricta)
3 Gooseberries Pixwell
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25

150 asparagus

He has bought compost and topsoil for the planting. Many of the trees are going in around the temple. This area was sculptured out of the natural terrain and in many places there is little natural soil remaining hence the need for adding topsoil.

He also bought rock phosphate which the soils here tend to be low in and liquid seaweed to soak the plants in to minimize transplant shock and for foliar feeding.

So far Soma and Hari Bhakta have planted the 10 Chinese Chestnuts and are waiting for the rest to come in. You can see where the trees are planted because there are cages built around them to stop the deer from eating them. Eventually the trees will grow above the deer.

The berries and asparagus will be planted in the temple’s fenced garden areas as they will need lifetime protection from the deer.

Anyone hoping to get an opportunity to assist on this project can contact Hari Bhakta or Soma.

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WED. APRIL 8TH

A BUSY DAY FOR NV-ITES…..

TO START THE DAY OFF WITH A COMMUNITY BREAKFAST

AND END IT AT NITYO DITA & RADHA’S !

COMMUNITY BREAKFAST

8 am THE CLASS WILL BE ON ON THE GLORIES OF PRASADAM

9:15 DEVOTEE PRASADAM IN THE PRASADAM HALL

NO AGENDA – JUST A GOOD TIME

HONORING KRISHNA PRASAD WITH GOOD FRIENDS

PRASADAM IS ALL ATTRACTIVE! NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE THERE’S SOME VARIETY OF PRASADAM WITH THE POTENCY TO CAPTIVATE YOU, ABSORB YOU AND MAKE YOU FORGET ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE THAT YOU HOLD DEAR!

EVENING EVENT

All devotees are invited to attend a spiritualized fun filled evening of socializing, recreation, chanting, dancing, feasting and appreciating Vaisnavas!

The day- Wednesday April 8th.
The time- 6-9 PM
The place- Nityo’s and Radha’s house

The occasions:
1) House Warming Party!!!
2) Birthday Party of Nityo and Vilasini!!!!!!
3) Welcome Home party for Mandali!!!!!!.
4) Spring is here party!!!!!
5) Celebration for the birth of Bolo and Princesses 6 puppies!

The prasadam– at the very least- Pizza, Lasange, Salad, and Ice Cream!!!!!!

Please Bring Your Children and Friends!!!!

Thanks to the inspiration of Soma prabhu, we are embarking on a very practical project that has long lasting benefits for our community – planting nut and fruit trees. Of course, over the years, devotees have planted apples, blueberries etc some of which are still around today.
Talking to Soma, who is a very gentle soft spoken devotee, I got turned on to the idea of planting trees, especially fruit and nut trees here at New Vrindavan. Soma has been planting paw paw trees ( a local fruit) for the last few years as well as some chestnut trees. So, when I heard about pecans, which are one of my favorite nuts, I got “nutspired”.
So, we have 10 chinese chestnut trees (I was told that these can live to be 1000 years), 10 chickapens and about 200 asparagus plants on the way. We are also expecting some Carpathian walnuts and northern pecans and an assortment of other berries.
WE NEED HELP to plant these trees. The best help is to volunteer physically with the planting. Other help that we could use is to buy fencing and other materials to protect the plants.

Imagine one day we could be offering nuts grown in New Vrindavan to the Sri Sri Radha Vrindavan Chandra!!! Pecans! Walnuts!

for more information or to volunteer to help, please contact  Madhava Gosh (gourdmad@ovnet.com), Soma , or Hari Bhakta (haribhakta@hotmail.com)

by Bhaktin Kyra

If your eyes led you to this, you’ll be reading about my new adventures or discoveries of sorts as a baby devotee living in the dham. My point of view… I do not feel qualified to share this with you but see it as a service by doing so.

Since the weather has been nicer (I lived on a tropical beach for 4 years, HATE the cold!!!) I was able to go to the Goshala & check out how Krishna’s beautiful cows were doing & get the 411 on them — somethings always new with the cows — so I asked Vrinda to come along & share some of Krishna’s favorite pastimes with me.

We were welcomed with 5 cows coming from the hills expecting Jaya Prabhupada to feed them some oats, it was about that time. Surabhi, Punya, Ganga, Kamadhenu, Gauri & Tulasi strolled in.

Vrinda showed me where the feed is kept in the wintertime & we fed them about 3 metal buckets full of oats.

Godavari is a HUGE black & white pregnant cow and due to give birth anyday. Tulasi has been pregnant since December. Bhakta Patrick from Chicago was staying in New V then, milking & caring for the cows was part of his many outdoor services. I remember him in DETAIL telling me the story about how the previous evening he was waiting for the veterinarian to come and upon his arrival he placed his ENTIRE hand into the cow to impregnate her.

Apparently there is a 12 hour window from when the cow shows or “says” shes “ready” to make some babies, that’s when they call the vet (or I suppose if we had a bull, he’d be roped in to perform his “daddy Duties”).

Cows give milk for a good 2 years after giving birth, the 1st 3-4 days the milk is ONLY given to the baby.

The cow with the largest MILKAGE??? (whadda-ya want from me, these terms arent generally used in Brooklyn…) is Gauri, she gives 20 lbs in the morning & 20 Lbs in the evening. Punja gives 12 lbs total per day.

The amount of milk given from the birth of the baby decreases by 1/2 in one year.

This past Wednesday the 3rd cow, Surabhi, was inseminated. So we’re going to have a lot of calves around the dham & a whole lot of milk. Some of which will be used by Mother Dhara to make Sri Sri Radha Vrindaban Chandra their delicious burfies.

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There will be an open meeting to discuss the Radha Vrndavana Candra Temple Library.

The history, location, facilities, management and its functioning as an asset for both devotees and guests are the agenda topics.

The meeting will be held on March 30, Tuesday evening at 6 pm in the main prasadam hall.

Prasadam will be served after the meeting.

All interested devotees are encouraged to attend.

Anyone with a proposal is encouraged to put it in writing and bring it to the meeting.

Dates would be Friday May 8th & Saturday, May 9th.

They would accompany Titiksita Karunika from the West Coast with his Mantra Rock style R & R.

Contact Malati 304-845-9591 malatidevi@aol.com

New Vrindaban’s deities looked resplendent in a new outfit and the altars decorated with flowers and fruit.  HH Indradyumna Swami started the evening program with an enlivening harinam parikrama up to the Palace of Gold and back, followed by a lecture, a dance performance, an ecstatic kirtan and abhisek, and of course a sumptuous feast!  Thank you to all the devotees who brought bhoga preparations and did other service to make this a successful event.

 
 

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Celebrating the 523rd Appearance Day Anniversary of Lord Caitanya!
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Everyone is invited to celebrate Gaura Purnima at the temple starting with morning class at 8:00am and kirtans/bhajans from 9:00am – 4:30pm. 

4:30pm   Harinam parikram — start in front of the temple deities and circumambulate the small lake outside.
5:30pm   Lecture by Indradyumna Swami
6:30pm   A transcendental drama, led by Damodara das
7:00pm   Arati, Kirtan and an Abhisek for all devotees
8:00pm   Feast and Raffle Drawing Prizes will be awarded

Devotees are encouraged to present their bhoga offerings to the Lord, and bring them to the pujari room before 6:00pm.

Volunteers are needed!!  If you would like to lead a kirtan during the day, help decorate the temple with balloons, pass out raffle drawing tickets in the lobby or do anything else to help, please contact Vyapi or Rasa Priya at 845-1080.  Thank you!

namo maha-vadanyaya  krsna-prema-pradaya te
krsnaya krsna-caitanya-namne gaura-tvise namah“O most munificent incarnation! You are Krsna Himself appearing as Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu. You have assumed the golden color of Srimati Radharani, and You are widely distributing pure love of Krsna. We offer our respectful obeisances unto You.”