Author Archives: New Vrndavan, USA

A New Vrindaban Storyteller Releases New ‘Fast-Paced’ Mahabharata By: Madhava Smullen for ISKCON News on Aug. 9, 2013. Professional storyteller Sankirtana Das (Andy Fraenkel) has just published his own retelling of the great Vedic epic Mahabharata that stands out from the crowd with its unique fast-paced approach. The book, Mahabharata: The Eternal Quest, is the […]

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta CC Adi 1.87, Translation: The appearance of ?r? K???a Caitanya and Prabhu Nity?nanda has surcharged the world with happiness. The purpose of the appearance of Lord Caitanya and Lord Nity?nanda is to dispel the darkness of the soul. CC Adi 1.94, Translation and Purport: All kinds of activities, both auspicious and inauspicious, that […]

New Vrindaban’s Transcendental “Throwback Thursday” – 02/13/14. Each week we highlight an earlier era of ISKCON New Vrindaban. This week’s challenge: These two devotees look like they are happily engaged in their service. Who are they and what do you think they are working on? Post your guesses on the “who, what, when & where” […]

Although the opulences of liberation clutch his feet, he runs to hell. After obtaining a cintamani jewel, he throws it in the ocean. After making the Supreme Personality of Godhead his submissive servant, he becomes the lowest dog. Such is a person who, after attaining Vrndavana, again leaves. [Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana-dhama […]

Lord Nityananda’s Appearance Day Festival Wed. Feb. 12, 2014 5:00 PM                      Bhajans 5:15 PM                      Abhisheka 6:00 PM                      Lecture 7:00 PM                      Artika  8:00 PM                      Feast   If you would like to bring an offering of food to the Lord, (which needless to say would please HIM very much, as HE is a such voracious eater),  and be […]

“…this sankirtana or street chanting must go on, it is our most important program. Lord Caitanya’s movement means the sankirtana movement. You may simply take two hours for chanting sixteen rounds daily, two hours for reading congregationally, and balance of time go out for sankirtana. We must do both, reading books and distributing books, but […]

Always hearing and chanting Sri Sri Radha-Madhava’s glories, describing them to others, reflecting on them with your equals, again and again decorating the forest groves, and great love making you ignore the material body. O friend, please reside in Vrndavana. [Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana-dhama by Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati Thakura, 1-59 Translation.] Please […]

  ECO-Vrindaban Board Meeting Minutes 02-02-2014. 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, […]

Friend, don’t try to be popular. Treat the senses roughly. Break the love of this world. Don’t be attached to wife, children, friends and relatives. Friend, desiring to stay until the body perishes, reside in Vrndavana. [Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana-dhama by Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati Thakura, 1-58 Translation.] Please click here for more […]

New Vrindaban Farm Report – Back To Godhead Magazine – October 1975. Over the past eight years, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness has established fourteen successful farming communities in various parts of the world. As national economies founder and cities go bankrupt, ISKCON’s farms flourish and grow, proving that the Krishna consciousness movement is […]

Vrndavana is wonderful. The two sweet fair and dark splendors named Radha and Krsna are wonderful. Pure love for Their lotus feet is wonderful. He who has faith in Them and rises to the spiritual world is wonderful. The rare soul who understands these truths is wonderful. [Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana-dhama by […]

India TV world desk Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold is a place where you can see the beauty and mystique of the Far East without leaving America. Read more here  

I pray that as I reside in Vrndavana I may consider with equal vision severe poverty and great wealth, great happiness and intense suffering, great fame and infamy, a jewel and a clod of earth, and my greatest friend and bitterest enemy. [Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana-dhama by Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati Thakura, 1-56 […]

Hare Krsna!
Join us for some enlivening Ekadasi Bhajans,
Monday Feb. 10 afternoon @ 4.00 PM in the temple room.
Bring all your friends!!
Hari Hari!

All glories to Vrndavana, the place of Krsna’s amorous pastimes which holds a Krsna-nectar-treasure the Vedas cannot attain, and which maddens with passion a dark youth that longs for the young gopis merciful glances and has become Radha’s pet deer. [Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana-dhama by Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati Thakura, 1-55 Translation.] Please […]

New Vrindaban’s Transcendental “Throwback Thursday” – 02/06/14. Each week we highlight an earlier era of ISKCON New Vrindaban. This week’s super challenge: We step outside the realm of our usual offerings and ask you to identify these two young boys. Extra Credit: How many ways can you connect this photo to the one from last week? […]

All the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s happiness does not equal an atom of the gopis happiness when their eyes plunge in the ocean of Radha’s lover’s pastimes. If someone aspires to attain this incomparable good fortune, he should let his body perish in the spiritual realm named Vrndavana. [Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana-dhama […]

They who are very unfortunate will not take shelter of Vrndavana, where the wonderfully handsome fair and dark divine couple eternally enjoy amorous pastimes and plunge Their friends into the great nectar of intense bliss.
[Source : Nectarean Glories …

Everyone is invited! BHAJANS FRIDAY FEB 7, 2014 5:00 PM GOPA’S HOUSE

Don’t be afraid, thinking it disobedient to the Vedas! Don’t consider the arguments of your elders! Don’t enter the realm of ordinary duties! Don’t run about to maintain your poor family! Don’t become bound by love and compassion! O friend, run to Vrndavana! [Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana-dhama by Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati Thakura, […]

New Vrindaban: Three Occasions for Transcendental Festivals Back To Godhead Article – April 1974 By Vishaka-devi dasi THIS YEAR, three auspicious days of special celebration for all devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead fall within the months of August and September. The first (August 11) is Janmastami, the unique day commemorating Krishna’s appearance on […]

Unaware that Vrndavana bestows the gift of pure devotional service to Lord Govinda’s lotus feet, fools do not aspire to live there. The tormented fools will not dive into the nectar ocean of intense bliss there. [Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana-dhama by Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati Thakura, 1-51 Translation.] Please click here for more […]

New Vrindaban is hosting a  Family Weekend February 15-17th 2014 The weather is getting better every day, so come visit and bring your family. Contact: (304) 843-1600 ext. 111 or 120 • Kids will learn spiritual songs, do arts and crafs and perform a spiritual drama. • Parents have the option to participate – it […]

Brother, do you know for certain when you will die? Do you think the maha-mantra will check the powerful death? Do you think that death will patiently wait and allow you to die at the time you prescribe? Is it for these reasons that again and again you fearlessly leave Vrndavana? [Source : Nectarean Glories […]

The great Vedic scholars cannot obtain even a glimpse of the wonderful and splendid transcendental essence of the nectarean ocean o the bliss of pure Krsna consciousness. O brother, now that you have entered the difficult to attain land of Vrndavana which fulfills all desires, why have you allowed yourself to come the spell of […]

O brother, please reside under the trees of Vrndavana, and from time to time enter the villages to beg alms. Drink as much Yamuna water as you like. Dress in some rejected pieces of cloth. Consider others’ praise of you the most bitter poison, and their disrespect sweet as nectar. Serve Sri Sri Radha-Muralidhara, and […]

New Vrindaban’s Transcendental “Throwback Thursday” – 01/30/14. Each week we highlight an earlier era of ISKCON New Vrindaban. This week’s challenge: Identify the two devotees in the photo. Extra credit: Name the two horses as well. Post your guesses on the “who, what, when & where” in the comment section at the New Vrindaban Facebook […]

By Gopish das As another manifestation of the temporary nature of this material world weighs heavily in the air, I’m reminded of the unlimited kindness of Krsna’s devotees. At lunch Prasad a couple of days ago, Jaya Govinda Prabhu was relating the story of Kala Krsnadas who was attracted away from Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu by […]

Where do all people automatically and effortlessly obtain pure ecstatic love for Krishna? Where does the Supreme Personality of Godhead manifest His supremely wonderful pastime form? Where is the empire of the bliss of devotional service to Krishna’s lotus feet manifest? O brother, listen I will tell you a secret. All this is present here […]

Is this the wonder of the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s opulence? Is this the wonderful sweetness of the shoreless nectar ocean of transcendental bliss? Is this the seed of many splendid kalpa-vrksa forests? Is this Vrndavana, the glorious and wonderful transformation of pure love for Krsna? [Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana-dhama by Srila […]

NEW OPEN POSITIONS IN NEW VRINDABAN – Jan. 26, 2014 ISKCON New Vrindaban is looking for devotees to serve and help fulfill Srila Prabhupada’s instructions in the following positions: Main Cook Restaurant Assistant Cook Devotee Kitchen Assistant Cook Restaurant Cleaning Personnel for Restaurant Cleaning Personnel for Lodge Cleaning Supervisor Lodge Receptionists These are all paid positions […]

O, look at Vrindavana, so beautiful with many blissful, splendid groves of kalpa-vriksha trees, with many parrots and other birds intoxicated by singing Vedic hymns glorifying Krishna, with many deers so pleasing to Krishna, with splendid transcendental lakes, ponds and streams, all filled with water sweet as nectar, and with mountains of valuable jewels. [Source […]

ISKCON New Vrindaban is looking for devotees to serve and help fulfill Srila Prabhupada’s instructions in the following positions: Main Cook Restaurant Assistant Cook Devotee Kitchen Assistant Cook Restaurant Cleaning Personnel for Restaurant Cleaning Personnel for Lodge Cleaning Supervisor Lodge Receptionists These are all paid positions and some are seasonal. Please send your applications to […]

May Vrindavana, filled with a host of pure spiritual virtues, and glorified by the greatest sages and philosophers, with her wonderful power and mercy transform sinful animals like me into servants of her feet. Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana-dhama by Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati Thakura, 1-44 Translation]  Please click here for more photos   […]

Krishna Temple is a Labor of Love – Back to Godhead – January 1979. by Ed Kozel Reprinted from the Wheeling (West Virginia) News-Register Something of a minor marvel is taking shape in the hills of Marshall County, where members of the Hare Krishna religious community have sacrificed over the past four years to complete […]

They who somehow or other remain up to the moment of death here in Vrindavana, which with its splendor bathes all moving and non-moving creatures in an ocean of bliss, are at the head of all great Vaisnavas. Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana-dhama by Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati Thakura, 1-43 Translation ] · Please […]