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Monday, June 16th, 2008
Simple Living, High Thinking Issue #3
In this week’s issue, a strong revelation appears!
Some of us have developed a compulsion…something we never thought we would have…a very strong desire to weed!!! Now, even when we take a walk through the forest, our first instinct upon seeing a perfectly natural arrangement of weeds is to grab our shovel and have at […]
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
“Simple Living, High Thinking” Issue #2
Click here to head one over to the Club 108 blog for this week’s installment of our weekly series “Simple Living, High Thinking”, as we let you know all about our adventures living the dream of real honest-to-goodness farm life, via our Small Farm Training Center and our beautiful garden projects (the Teaching Garden and […]
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Getting Our Hands Dirty
Click here to head one over to the Club 108 blog for the first installment of our weekly series “Simple Living, High Thinking”, as we let you know all about our adventures living the dream of real honest-to-goodness farm life, via our Small Farm Training Center and our beautiful garden projects (the Teaching Garden and […]
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
The Solar Garden of Eden
Two of New Vrindaban Dham’s dearest devotees, HG Vyasasana Prabhu and HG Loka-Drsti Prabhu, have started up a wonderful home decor and garden business based entirely around solar power. Their website is real snazzy and their environmentally enlightened products are the real deal.
Check it all out here at www.solargardenofeden.com
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Local Defines What Is Local: A 2008 Festival of Inspiration Workshop
HG Tapahpunja Prabhu wants to let you know where we can pick up where Gandhi left off, using our rural communities as outreach powerhouses. You can find out at the upcoming 2008 Festival of Inspiration (May 9-10-11, live at New Vrindaban Dham in West Virginia). Tapahpunja’s presentation will happen at 12:45 pm on Sunday the […]
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Not-Your-Average Gaura Purnima Pics
Hear ye hear ye! Come one and come all to see the delights of the 2008 celebration of Gaura Purnima at New Vrindaban Dham. There were dramatic productions from the youths, rollicking and rocking multi-hour kirtans, delicious and delightful prasadam, and wonderful devotees being completely wonderful. A sublime start to the springtime! Lord […]
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
A Real Sunday Hoedown
The musically inclined Brijabasis like to, after big-time honoring of the world-famous New Vrindaban Sunday Feast, get together with a eclectic collection of musical instruments and engage in a transcendental hoedown to the tune of the maha-mantra and other original devotional songs. It’s a sweet treat for the ears!
Join us every Sunday beginning at […]
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Bahulaban Restoration Meeting #1-The Minutes
BAHULABAN RESTORATION PROPOSAL MEETING #1
MINUTES
3-11-08
Attending: Balabhadra, Madhava Ghosh, Nityodita, Tapahpunja, Chris,
Rabbi, Gopalasapriya, Krpamaya, Caitanya Bhagavat, Jaya Murari,
Paramdhama, Sambha, Devananda Pandit, Jaya Prabhupada
AGENDA
1. History and Significance of Bahulaban
-Prabhupada Tirtha, […]
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
The Small Farm Training Center
The Small Farm Training Center is a land-based educational center and hands-on working organic farm, located in the beautiful rolling foothills of New Vrindaban Dham in West Virginia. What’s it all about? Click here to find out
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Gaura Purnima 2008!
GAURA PURNIMA FESTIVAL 2008
MARCH 21st –MARCH 22nd
NEW VRINDABAN
Friday 21st of March
Gaura Purnima: Appearance Day of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
(Fasting till Moonrise)
Morning Class on Caitnaya Caritamrta
(evening part)
7:00 PM
Kirtan and Gaura Nitai Abhisekam
(Special Abhiseka for children)
Visual Presentation of New Temple of Vedic Planetarium in Mayapur
(RARE PRESENTATION MADE TO GBC MEETING IN MAYAPUR)
Preaching in Hungary – Story of […]
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
On The Cusp Of The Local Radio Revolution
New Vrindaban is on the front lines of a nationwide push for more access to low-power FM radio stations (LPFM), which has now been taken to the floor of the U.S House and Senate.
Check out this article which details the Local Radio Community Act, which will offer low-power, local airwave access to a whole range […]
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Gettin the New Vrindaban Experience
This past weekend, two intrepid reporters from Ohio University’s student-run indepedent newspaper The Post, Rob (the photographer) and Eric (the reporter), visited the Dham in order to meet devotees and do research for their thesis paper on the inner workings of an intentional community (they are also visiting a Mennonite community, an all-woman community, and […]
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
More On The Fire at RVC Temple
Right now the only real damage is to a series of spots on the temple floor that have been warped by the water, but it certainly is repairable, and we are also working on getting some maintenance to our trusted sprinkler system, which saved the day during the fire and has likely guaranteed itself a […]
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
A Little Taste of Frostburn 2008!
by Bhakta-Chris
This past weekend a group of intrepid Brajbasis (Nitai, Maha-Laksmi, Mandali, Caitanya, Kesava Acarya,Yaitza, Rasikananda, his pa Akhilananda, and myself) braved the sub-freezing temps and snow-covered ground of the average American winter to participate in Frostburn 2008, at Cooper’s Campground just outside of Slippery Rock, PA and the holy tirtha of Butler, PA.
The […]
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
“I Can’t Live Without My Radio!”
Independent media reporter Mike Janssens of the Future of Music Coalition Blog has keenly and graciously taken an interest in the proposed FM radio station that would be hosted and located right here by the devotees of New Vrindaban Dham, pending FCC approval amidst competing proposals from a number of non-local Christian groups.
You can check […]