Author Archives: New Vrndavan, USA

Ignoring your crying father, mother, children and other relatives, and not hearing their splendid words, with a very hard heart, quickly see the groves where Krsna enjoyed transcendental pastimes.
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New Vrindaban’s Transcendental “Throwback Thursday” – 03/06/14. Each week we highlight an earlier era of ISKCON New Vrindaban. This week’s challenge: In the photo, with Srila Prabhupada, are nine devotees whose faces can be seen. Can you correctly identify them all? Extra credit: Who is the person directly behind Srila Prabhupada (whose face can’t be seen, but […]

O brother, when you close your eyes in death, where will your loving wife, children, brothers, relatives and friend be? Where will your good qualities be? Where will your fame be? Where will your pride, wealth, education, control over others, and other powers and opulences be? O learned and intelligent friend, why do you not […]

O friend, by great good-fortune you have attained this body where you have heard Vrndavana’s wonderful glories and learned that everything in this world is like a dream. Don’t, don’t, don’t put any faith in the mind and body. Run to Vrndavana. [Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana-dhama by Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati Thakura, 1-80 […]

ECO-Vrindaban Board Meeting Minutes 2-23-2014.  Mission Statement: ECO-Vrindaban promotes a simple, sustainable lifestyle centered on the care and protection of cows, local food production and the loving service of Lord Krishna, as envisioned by Srila Prabhupada, the Founder-Acharya of ISKCON New Vrindaban. Participating Members of the ECOV Board of Directors:  Anuttama (partial attendance), Bhima, Chaitanya […]

If you desire to attain the supremely sweet, blissful, exalted and opulent mellows of pure love of God, then, not touching the paths of bhakti mixed with piety, speculation and dry renunciation, break the hard shackles of material lie and accept the life of a sannyasi in Vrndavana. [Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana-dhama […]

Friend, when you will die? Do you know? Do not even infants sometimes die unexpectedly? With clear intelligence, without attachment to the body and sense, and without stopping to think, run to Vrndavana.
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Srila Prabhupada Appreciates New Vrindaban’s Protected Cow Milk – June 1969. From a series of letters written by Srila Prabhupada outlining his vision for New Vrindaban. Thanks to Vanipedia for the source material. —————————————————————— June 24th, 1969. My Dear Kirtanananda, Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you very much for your kind attention […]

To the supremely fortunate, pious and affectionate persons who live in Vrndavana, which is more blissful than Lord Visnu’s abode, and who, worshipping Them with prayers and gifts, make Radha and Krsna deeply indebted to them, we offer our respectful obeisances. [Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana-dhama by Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati Thakura, 1-77Translation.] Please […]

Festival of Inspiration website Filled with inspiring lectures, seminars, workshops, entertainment, and dramas, the Festival of Inspiration has become the most spiritually inspirational and motivational event of the year. A uniquely wonderful opportunity to share chanting of the holy names in the association of vibrant and fascinating souls from all over the three worlds. Join […]

Srila Prabhupada: …observing Siva-ratri, Nanda Maharaja and all the cowherds men, they increased their attachment for Krishna. That is wanted. Shiva, “The Auspicious One,” is one of the primal controllers of the material world. He is mentioned as the greatestVaishnava, devotee of Vishnu, and he is Krishna’s unique agent for overseeing the mode of ignorancewithin material creation. He […]

To they who, rejecting a thornless kingdom and beautiful women, thinking all material happinesses most bitter and renouncing education, noble birth, wealth, and fame, go to Vrndavana, never to leave, we offer our respectful obeisances.
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If you are ever in San Luis Obispo check out this cafe. It is run by the son of our cowherd man, Ranaka, who does the accounting work for it even though he is West Virginia and the cafe is in California. He gets real time updates viathe internet
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He who yearns to attain the sweetness of pure love in Vrndavana, but by destiny is forced to live elsewhere, laments and always remembers Vrndavana, beautiful with splendid groves where Sri Sri Radhika-Krsna enjoy pastimes. He meditates on entering Vrndavana and thinks “Now I am serving the divine couple”. [Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri […]

New Vrindaban’s Transcendental “Throwback Thursday” – 02/27/14. Each week we highlight an earlier era of ISKCON New Vrindaban. This week’s challenge: There are fourteen devotees in the photo. Can you correctly identify them all? Extra Credit: Why are they dressed up so colorfully? Post your guesses on the “who, what, when & where” in the comment […]

He who with food, clothing and other gifts, serves Vrndavana’s residents that are penniless, desireless, afraid of materialists company, and plunged into Krsna nectar makes Vrndavana’s king and queen his submissive servants. [Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana-dhama by Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati Thakura, 1-74 Translation.] Please click here for more photos

He who has his house, clothing and food in sacred Vrndavana is pious a million times over. He becomes liberated and he liberates others. He who resides in Vrndavana, the spiritual abode of the nectar bliss of pure love, easily attains wonderful love from the beloved of Maharaja Vrsabhanu’s daughter. [Source : Nectarean Glories of […]

O sadhu, if you can’t suddenly renounce this dreamlike world, then day and night meditate on Vrndavana. Worship Vrndavana’s king and queen, always chant Their holy names, and always hear Their glories. With food, clothing, and other gifts, serve the residents of Vrndavana. [Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana-dhama by Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati Thakura, […]

O fool, give up everything and run to Vrndavana, the kalpa-vrksa grove of pure love for Sri Sri Radhika-Suratanatha! Don’t stay to fulfil your obligations! [Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana-dhama by Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati Thakura, 1-71 Translation.] Please click here for more photos

  Memories of Srila Prabhupada in New Vrindaban – Rasa lila dasi. My initiation [in July 1974] was a wonderful moment.  It was one of those moments that Srutakirti describes – when you’re so bewildered you can’t remember even your own name.  To be in front of Srila Prabhupada for the first time was that […]

Don’t, don’t harbor illusions about your body, home and everything else! Know that death will thwart all your plans! O friend, run, run to Sri Vrndavana! Don’t make your heart harder than a thunderbolt. [Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana-dhama by Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati Thakura, 1-70 Translation.] Please click here for more photos

To body, home, wife, and possessions don’t uselessly think “I” and “mine”. With help from the guru’s words cut the shackles of illusion. Go at once to Vrndavana, the beginning of the kingdom of bliss. Live there on fruit and other simple food, and always remember the pastimes of Vrndavana’s king. [Source : Nectarean Glories […]

Sinful or pious, infamous or famous, wealthy or so poor a morsel of food is hard to get, incomparably dull or a great treasury of knowledge, friend, don’t count these things. Somehow see Vrndavana, and with the help of the words of guru and sastra, cut, cut the ropes of material illusion. [Source : Nectarean […]

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: […]

Yukta Vairgya and the Gas Drilling Contract By Varsana Swami BACKGROUND When New Vrindaban was founded in 1968, Srila Prabhupada intended that the devotees would live off the land.  My suggestion for the proper spiritual dynamic is that some of the funds obtained from the land should be re-invested back into the land in order […]

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 […]

Everyone is invited! Puspanjali (flower offering) Appearance Day of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta  Sarasvati Thakura 12 noon  in Temple Room Wed. Feb. 19, 2014

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 […]

I pray that I may engage in the service of the moving and non-moving residents of Vrndavana. What are Brahma and the other demigods in comparison to them? The residents of Vrndavana are more glorious. They are very dear to Vraja’s king. Their forms are eternal, spiritual and full of nectar. Their glories are limitless. […]

Effect of Loving God : When you love God, you love everyone and everything. Beyond Illusion and Doubt, Chapter-7, Srila Prabhupada.   Goal of Human Form Of Life : This Human form of life is meant for developing love for God. Quest for Enlightenment, Srila Prabhupada. Love of God : Love of God is dormant […]