New Vrindaban Brijabasi Spirit

Party at Yudhisthira’s
Rocks!
Labor Day, Sept. 1
(it’s my 59th birthday)

Tours - feasting – live music

Bring a covered dish to share if you want

Come early – stay late

Directions to Yudhisthira’s:
From RVC temple…
go down hill
turn right at cemetary
go to bottom of hill
cross small creek (no problem for cars)
bear left 1/4 mile
cross bridge
go left
follow lane to top of hill.

Hope to see you then!
Haribol!

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Dear Devotees,

Sorry for the confusion, but due to some last minute conflicts, Srila Prabhupada’s Vyasa Puja will be held at the Temple instead of the Palace of Gold.

The schedule remains the same:

10:00 am  Bhajans
11:00 am  Vyasa puja readings
12:00 pm  Bhoga offering
12:30 pm  Pushpanjali and arati
1:30 pm  Feast

Srila Prabhupada ki jai!

 

 

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3764 Watseka Avenue
Los Angeles, Cal. 90034

June 27 1970

My Dear Hayagriva,

Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 23rd June, 1970, and noted the contents. I have received the matter for publication in English and Hindi in Indian newspapers, and necessary actions are being taken.

I am very glad to learn that the editorial work of Jai Advaita and Satsvarupa in Boston is now becoming dependable.

I understand that there is some trouble with the girl who has gone from here, and I do not know how I can advise you in this matter. I think in the near future both of us should be freed from these internal management activities.

I can understand that you are little afraid of these legal implications because the land in New Vrindavan is in your name. The best thing will be therfore to transfer the land in the Society’s name as soon as possible and you also be completely free from internal management. Dedicate your life for reading and writing in this Movement of Krsna Consciousness, and when I go to India you must have to go with me.

In the meantime, please settle up things in an organized manner so that in future we may not be in trouble. Anyway, I am glad that you are coming during Rathayatra festival and at that time we will all together discuss on these important businesses and I think that will be very nice.

I am glad to know that the boys are doing nicely there under the care of Satyabhama and Devakinandan, Offer my blessings to all the inmates.

If Kirtanananda Maharaj is not very busy he may also come to Rathayatra festival.

Hope this will meet you in good health,

your ever well-wisher

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

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Dear Devotees:
While the Janmastami festivities begin this Saturday, below are a few highlights for the actual Janmastami on Sun. 8/24:

• It would be a great pleasue to present the deities with 108 preparations for Vrindaban Chandra’s birthday feast. Our community’s cooks are welcomed to bring any specialty offerings to the pujari room by 11:00 pm for the Grand Janmastami Offerings.
• Varsana Swami will lead the morning class on a colorful Krishna katha journey.
• Sankirtan das will also weave his storytelling magic at 6:00 pm both Sat. & Sun.
• And you won’t want to miss the children’s costume contest at 7:45 pm! All children ages 12 and under are encouraged to dress like Krishna or one of His special friends to delight the devotees and win prizes.
• The abhishek begins at 9:00 pm and after the kalash donors have finished, the resident devotees will have the chance to personally bathe the Lord.
• Krpamaya das will enchant us with an original musical performance at 11:00 pm.
• The festival finale will be a midnight darshan with Radha Vrindaban Chandra in Their new outfit, followed by a Janmastami feast for everyone.

There will be spectacular darshans throughout the day for the pleasure of Radha Vrindaban Chandra and Their confidential friends and families from New Vrindaban community….please do come and enter into the forest of Vraj, celebrating Sri Krishna’s appearance day.

There will be a Children’s Costume Contest Sunday Aug. 24th evening at 7:45 PM in the temple.

Join in the fun and come as Krishna or one of his friends.

Prizes will be awarded.

See the poster by clicking below.

childrenscostumecontest

By the mercy of Srila Prabhupada, a 2 day Kids “Day” Camp was made possible over the last weekend (Fri, Sat & sun morning). About 25 kids from ages 5 through 14 participated in this camp (5 kids from New Vrindaban and about 20 kids from nearby cities.Highlights of the camp were:

1. the tours given by Tapah punj prabhu in the organic garden and the opportunity the kids got to work with land
2. the stories told by Sankirtan prabhu
3. the musical performances by Krpamaya prabhu
4. the cow milking session by Jaya Prabhupada prabhu

Along with the above activities the kids enjoyed playing Krsna conscious games in the island and participated in the arti, Abhishek for lord Balaram, fun in the pool etc. One of the special events was the harinam sankirtan to the palace via “Gajendra the elephant” and :gaur nitai statues”. All the kids loved being in Srila Prabhupada’s palace and the culmination was the ecstatic kirtan in the samadhi room.

This was only possible by the blessings and guidance of all the senior vaisnavas. New Vrindavan’s wealth is the senior vaisnavas who have rich experiences in various areas and the kids were fortunate to receive their blessings by hearing from them and being with them.

All the children were so happy and excited that they did not want to go home.

We want to thank all the devotees who made it possible:

Malati prabhu and the GBC team for special tips, guidance and safety measures
Tapah punj prabhu for giving garden tours and ride to the children
Sankirtan prabhu for telling wonderful stories
Krpamaya prabhu for musical performances
Tejo maya prabhu, Chaitanya bhagavat prabhu and Jagganath Misra prabhu for setting up the pool
Nityodita prabhu, Rupanuga prabhu and Jayasri mataji for constant support and encouragement
Shanka prabhu and premabhakti prabhu for making tasty prasadam – In fact please note that this was a busy weekend. And along with all the other cooking services the cooks were excited and happy to prepare delicious prasadam for the kids. One of the kids Jagadish said, “This was the best prasadam I ever had in my life.
Dharmakala mataji for making burgers, cakes and brownies – the kids loved it.
Lalita gopi mataji for helping in snacks, cooking lasagna. Helping with taking care of the kids during the camp.
Ramlila mataji for organizing activities for the children
Jaya prabhupada prabhu for cow barn tours and milking
Shankarananda prabhu, Govinda priya mataji, laxman prabhu, Vijay reddy prabhu for clean up
Prasanna mataji for prasadam serve out
Atmarama prabhu, Sarita mataji, Gokul priya mataji, laxmi mataji for cooking various items
Annapurna mataji, Manisha mataji, Kamal gopi mataji, Anu mataji, Gokulpriya mataji, pujita mataji, Gopal prabhu for being the care takers of the kids during the camp
Sriram prabhu for co-ordinating games
And all those devotees whose name is not in the list but helped with the camp. Please forgive us for missing out any devotee unknowingly.

In short this was a wonderful weekend because it brought joy to the children and brought so many devotees together in the service of Srila Prabhupada.

We learnt many lessons on how we can improve the quality of such an offering to the children.

Srila Prabhupada ki Jai! New Vrindavan dham ki jai!

aspiring to be the servants of servants of Srila Prabhupada,
Gopals camp team (Radhika Sundari devi dasi and Annapurna )

This week we’ll meet Friday, August 22nd at The Teaching Garden, across the street from the RVC Temple at 630 pm. The topic will be Adventures in Alternative Housing, with Bhakta-Tom leading the workshop and discussion. Bhajans begin the program, and pot-luck prasad tops it all off.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to ask Bhakta-Chris. You can also reach him by e-mail at nvclub108@gmail.com.

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3764 Watseka Avenue
Los Angeles, Cal. 90034

April 18, 1970

My Dear Hayagriva,

Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 10th instant, and the contents are very much encouraging. So what you are now doing on the Bhagavad Gita manuscript is alright, do it nicely. I have got the second part of Krsna also. I want to send it to you, so when you are free let me know and I will send it.

Regarding the editing process, I am glad to know that they are improving and doing nicely, but finally you should see each manuscript before printing. That should be the arrangement.

Regarding large Deities, I am arranging for them to be sent from India already. They will be just to the standard of our London Deities, and if you can arrange for a contribution to my book fund of not less than $400, I will have one pair sent to be delivered to New Vrindaban. They will be carefully packed in first-class crates and insured, so do not worry about that. I am carrying on the complete negotiations from here.

So Kirtananda Maharaj is planning to come here for some days and you may also come with him, and then we can go together to New Vrindaban.

Hope this will meet you in good health.

Your ever well wisher,

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

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Sriman Hayagriva Das Adhikary
ISKCON Temple
318 East 20th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43201

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For the week of August 11th-17th, 2008

Cloud-gazing and green-bean razing, it’s all in a week’s work. Join us as we take a look into what went on this week in the Small Farm Training Center here at New Vrindaban.

It’s actually all about realizing Krsna in our hearts.  We realized that…

Our farm communities can be such a catalyst for this kind of internal development. Just the nature of the seva itself entrenches one more in a mode of pure goodness, away from the wireless radiation of the ugra-karma culture. Taking the time to pull the weeds from the earth can help one to really pull the weeds out of one’s heart.

Click here to head on over to the Club 108 blog to read more.

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