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Vasanta Ashtayam Seva: Part 1, Jagayve Ke Pad
Contributed by Krishnaa Kinkari Devi Vasanta Panchami this year falls on February 12th. To celebrate this beautiful season, Vraja Kishori Publications of Sri Vrindavan Dham will offer a daily dose of...
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Vasanta Ashtayam Seva: Part 2, Kaleva Ke Pad and Mangla Me Vasanta
Contributed by Krishnaa Kinkari Devi The Joyous Hori proceeds as Sri Thakurji enjoys His breakfast. It does not take Him too long to wake up, enthused as He is with the arrangements for play! The Poet...
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Gita Govindam expresses the intense feeling of separation
Vrindavan, 2016.01.30 (VT): Jayadeva Goswami’s Tirobhav Mahotsava (disappearance anniversary) was celebrated with great devotion in Radha Damodar Temple. Scores of devotees and saints paid their...
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Vasanta Ashtayam Seva: Part 3, Khelata Vasanta and Ulhane Ke Pad
Contributed by Krishnaa Kinkari Devi The padas translated take us through a day in the Beloveds’ Seva during Hori. 1] SRI VALLABHA PRATASMARAN – Morning Remembrance 2] JAGAYVE KE PADA – Wake up Songs...
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Vasanta Ashtayam Seva: Part 4, Palana (Cradle Songs)
Contributed by Krishnaa Kinkari Devi PALANA ‘Cradle Songs’ These two cradle songs are the perfect example of Sri Thakurji’s viruddha dharmasraya character. [embodying seemingly contradictory qualities]...
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Vasanta Ashtayam Seva: Part 5, Mangala Darshan
Contributed by Krishnaa Kinkari Devi Now that the Lord has been offered His breakfast and been swung in His cradle comes the long-awaited ‘Mangala Darshan’ when the devotees get to have His Darshan...
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Śrī Śrī Vraja-Vilāsa-Stava: A hymn to the Vraja-pastimes: Sri Ananta das...
Śrī Śrī Vraja-Vilāsa-Stava – A praise of the manifestation of the Vraja-pastimes (Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī) yan mādhurī divyasudhārasābdheḥ smṛteḥ kaṇenāpy atilolitātmā | padmair vrajasthān...
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Train connection sought between Mathura and Kurukshetra
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has urged Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu to introduce Shatabdi train service between Kurukshetra and Mathura to facilitate easier travelling for tourists and...
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Tirth Purohits protesting against Vrindavan Traffic Plan
Vrindavan, 2016.02.05 (VT): The Pandas of Vrindavan are opposed to the new traffic plan being executed on every weekend. A massive protest has begun in Vrindavan led by the Vrindavan Tirtha Purohits,...
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Vasanta Ashtayam Seva: Part 6, Vasanti Sringar ki Jhanki
SRNGAR KE PAD ‘Vasanti Sringar ki Jhanki’ A glimpse of Yugal Svarupa’s Spring Adornment Pada – Raga Hori Kaphi Poet Ghasiramji [Translators note: this one word, “vasanti”, repeated to qualify every...
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Vrindavan now to get Holi Mahotsav: Tourism Dep’t
Vrindavan, 2016.02.06 (TOI) : On the lines of Agra’s signature event Taj Mahotsav and a similar one in Lucknow, UP tourism department has planned to promote the most important festival of Braj region,...
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Śrī Śrī Vraja-Vilāsa-Stava – A praise of the manifestation of the...
Śrī Śrī Vraja-Vilāsa-Stava – A praise of the manifestation of the Vraja-pastimes (Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī) prādurbhāva-sudhā-draveṇa nitarām aṅgitvam āptvā yayor goṣṭhe’tīkṣṇam anaṅga eṣa paritaḥ...
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Widow home having 500 capacity of inmates to be built in Vrindavan
Mrs. Renuka KumarVrindavan, 2016.02.06 (VT): Vrindavan will get another widow home soon, to house 500 inmates in it. The new widow ashram is being built behind the Omaxe housing complex situated on the...
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Vasanta Ashtayam Seva: Part 7, A Description of Sri Radha’s Beauty
Contributed by Krishnaa Kinkari Devi After the Mangala Darshan, the Beloveds appear in Their fresh new adornments. Pada – Rāga Sāraṁga Poet Govindasvami स्याम रंगीली चूनरी रंग रंगी हे रंगीले बिहारी हो...
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Allegiance to the Vraja-Vasis
“The perfection of allegiance to the Vraja-people cannot be achieved by giving up external practices like hearing and chanting. As much as the external practices like hearing and chanting nourish the...
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BJP president in Vrindavan, planning national youth convention here
Vrindavan, 2016.02.09 (TOI): With the Uttar Pradesh elections just a year away, BJP is all set to launch its “Mission UP 2017” from the temple town of Vrindavan, where it is believed Lord Krishna spent...
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Remembering Srinath Shastri
Gloria Maité Hernández, 2016.02.09 (VT): Srinath Shastri ji was born in Mathura on September 29 of 1923. He was an Ayurveda Visharad and a revered Bhagavata scholar and teacher. He founded his Gurukul...
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Vrindavan’s lotus temple of Priya Kant ju inaugurated by BJP President
Vrindavan, 2016.02.08 (VT): After the Prem Mandir, another temple with original modern architecture has been built in Vrindavan and was opened to the public on Monday. The splendid lotus-shaped temple...
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Urban monkeys have evolved cognitive skills
Agra, 2016.02.10 (Aditya Dev TOI): A comparative study of the behaviour of rhesus monkeys in the wild and urbanized areas of Agra region, conducted by Dayalbagh Educational Institute, has found that...
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Radha Damodar Sevait Nirmal Chandra Goswami enters nitya lila
Vrindavan, 2016.02.10 (Hari Bhakta Das, VT): Acharya Sri Nirmal Chandra Goswami was the 15th sevaita acharya of the Sri Radha Damodar mandir. His ancestry can be traced to Sri Krishna Das Goswami, a...
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