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TODAY’s Digest: Smuggled cows rescued; Sanatan Dharma conference, and more…
Sanatana Dharma Conference. The Ram Rajya Parishad is holding a two-day conference to discuss how Sanatan Dharma can positively impact governance. Swami Nishchalanand Maharaj said, today India’s...
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Fungus and worms found in snacks at railway restaurant at Mathura junction
Agra, 2017.10.03 (Arvind Chauhan, TNN): Even after the CAG rapped the railway for bad quality of food citing it ‘unfit for human consumption’ in its audit report tabled to a parliamentary committee in...
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“Go on grasping the grace”: wisdom of Shri Radha Baba
Radha Baba (1913-1992) was a devotee of Mahaprabhu and Radha-Krishna who lived in Gorakhpur. Born in a Vaishnav Brahmin family in Gaya, he became an Advaitin sannyasi, but later took the path of Braj...
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Vrindavan billboards, Karttik events
I noticed some interesting billboards while out and about the other day. Although the month of Karttik means hundreds and hundreds of events, most of these are not given any special publicity. Although...
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Gurukul girls march towards a cleaner and healthier Braj
Vrindavan, 2017.10.04 (VT): The students of Bhaktivedanta Vaishnavi Gurukul (BVG) in Nandgaon participated in the nationwide celebration of Gandhi Jayanti. In solidarity with the Clean India Campaign...
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Installation of Braj’s tallest deity at Sankarshan Kund
P.C. Dainik Jagran Govardhan, 2017.10.04 (VT): The Brajwasis witnessed an impressive abhishek ceremony to the massive deity of Shri Sankarshan Bhagwan (a form of Dauji Maharaj) yesterday. The ritual is...
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TODAY’s Digest: Bihariji’s 1008 lamps; Pilgrims do sanitation work; Yamuna...
A hundred years of Bihariji Seva, As deep daan is offered in temples and homes around Braj and its outreaches in devotees’ homes across the world, Bihariji is set to get a special offering of 1008...
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Vrindavan’s biking trails used for everything but biking
Vrindavan, 2017.10.04 (VT): About nine months ago, the MVDA created several biking trails around the city. Unfortunately, these biking trails are not being used for biking, nor is anyone walking on the...
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Govardhan parikrama suddenly closed to car traffic
Vrindavan, 2017.10.05 (VT): Devotees performing Govardhan Parikrama have to share the narrow path with dangerously speeding cars, trucks, tractors and other heavy vehicles. Yesterday, however, the...
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Ramesh Baba’s Radha Rani Braj Yatra
Vrindavan, 2017.10.05 (VT): Every year Shri Ramesh Babaji of Barsana leads a popular 84-Krosh parikrama called Radharani Braj Yatra. Making the journey by foot to the company of kirtan, devotees...
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Pickpockets out in full force for Kartik
Vrindavan, 2017.10.05 (VT): Devotees visiting Vrindavan for Kartik should keep a close eye on their belongings. Pickpockets are stalking the markets and temples looking for a chance to steal. Not only...
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TODAY’s digest: CM and Ramdev Baba tomorrow; Train derailment; Pollution...
Dignitaries attend Sankarshan Kund abhishek. Yesterday, the abhishek at Sankarshan kund, Goverdhan, continued for the third day. On the second day of proceedings, over 300 people came to see the...
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Govinda-lilamrita :: Rasa-lila (1)
Today is Sharadiya Rasa, which is a commemoration of the five chapters in the Bhagavatam that describe the Rasa-lila. Sometimes these chapters are called the five life-airs of the Bhagavatam or its...
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Today’s digest: Sanatana Dharma Lecture; CM in floodplain controversy; Diwali...
Lecture on beginnings of Sanatana Dharma. In a lecture at Braj Culture Research Institute, on Tuesday, Dr Meenakshi Joshi, research scholar of Vikram University Ujjain, said that Ramanuj Acharya’s...
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Vrindavan Celebrates Sharad Purnima
Shri Gopinath Lal on Sharad Purnima – P.C. Jagannath Poddar Vrindavan, 2017.10.06 (VT): Sharad Purnima is the night when Shri Krishna danced the Raas Lila with Shri Radha Rani and the gopis of...
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Govinda-lilamrita :: Rasa-lila (2)
This is part II of our Govinda-līlāmṛta nighttime līlā descriptions. These postings are inspired by Karttika Niyama Seva, which is separated by two Rasa Purnimas. Part I was here. 22 Seeing Krishna...
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Today’s Digest: CM trapped by angry crowds; Narad moh lila, and more…
Pilgrims storm Nandagaon. The quiet town of Nandagaon was overtaken yesterday by over 15,000 pilgrims on Ramesh Baba’s ‘Radha Rani’ parikrama. With no need for local pandas (guides), the pilgrims were...
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Yogi Adityanath, Mohan Bhagwat and Baba Ramdev visited Vrindavan yesterday:...
Vrindavan, 2017.10.07 (VT): Yesterday UP’s Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and Baba Ramdev of Patanjali fame visited Vrindavan and spoke at the grand opening of Mansi Dhyan...
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Govinda-lilamrita :: Rasa-lila (3)
mādhavāliṅgita-mādhavī bhrājate mādhavaś cānayā phullayā rājate | viśvam apy etayoḥ saṅgam ānandataś cakṣuṣī nandayan modate sarvataḥ ||36-37||36 Krishna sings: “Aho! The madhavi lata when embraced by...
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Vinode Bihari Baba : Living in the region of Mathura
There are three evils in the development of devotion. These are the evils of land evils of association evils of food What is the evil of land? A person’s thinking power is generated by the atoms...
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