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Today’s Digest: Srila Prabhupada’s abhishek, CM Yogi to visit GLA, and more…
Srila Prabhupada’s Disappearance Day festivities. Hundreds of foreign devotees packed into Vrindavan’s ISKCON temple yesterday, for the anniversary of the disappearance day of the organization’s...
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Govinda Lilamrita Raas : Editorial Interlude
In this following portion of the Govinda-līlāmṛta, which is the concluding part of the niśā-līlā and the entire aṣṭayāma-līlā. As one might well expect in a work such as this, in which Radha and...
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Today’s Digest: Yamuna Activism planned for March 18, and more…
Sants express discontent with BJP. At a meeting yesterday, on the banks of the Yamuna, Vrindavan’s prominent sants spoke to a packed audience, saying that they plan to boycott the BJP in the next...
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22 injured in parikrama marg traffic accident
Vrindavan, 2017.10.25 (VT): Twenty-two devotees were injured on Tuesday morning in a traffic accident on the parikrama marg. The accident occurred in front of the Imli Tala temple. The accident seems...
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Shailja Kant Mishra meets foreign nationals living in Vrindavan
Vrindavan, 2017.10.25 (VT): At the instigation of Raseshwari Dasi and H.G. Padmanabh Goswami Prabhupad, a meeting was arranged for Braj Tirth Vikas Parishad VP Shailja Kant Mishra to meet with leaders...
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Kamsa Vadh Mela begins on Friday in Mathura
A cowherd boy hugs Shri Krishna and begs him to be careful as he goes to battle Kamsa (P.C. Festivals of India) Vrindavan, 2017.10.25 (VT): The historic Kamsa Vadh Mela will be held this weekend in...
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Govinda Lilamrita Raas: Madhu pana lila
madhu-pāna 50Then Vrinda brings many jeweled containers filled to the brim with various kinds of madhu extracted from flowers and fruit rasa. She also brings all sorts of sliced fruits for the vidamsha...
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ISKCON Vrindavan holds Jagannath Ratha Yatra during Kartik
Vrindavan, 2017.10.26 (VT): ISKCON Vrindavan on Wednesday held a procession based on Puri’s famous Ratha Yatra. After maha-abhishek and aarti in the morning, Jagannath, Baldev and Subhadra Devi were...
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Today’s Digest: Peacock sanctuary, Mathura-Vrindavan parikrama and more…
Funding released for Peacock sanctuary. Vrindavan’s Van Chetna Kendra (Forest Awareness Center) has received Rs55 Lakh out of a promised Rs1.2 Crore funding to build a peacock sanctuary. The funding...
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Srila Prabhupada, Globalization and the Three Vrindavans (Part I)
Mr. Shailjakant Mishra of the Braj Teerth Vikas Parishad held a meeting with Vrindavan’s community of foreign devotees the other day, about which a summary in Vrindavan Today was given yesterday. I...
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New decorative gates planned for Mathura
Vrindavan, 2017.10.27 (VT): UP Energy Minister Shrikant Sharma presided over a meeting on Wednesday, to discuss various beautification projects for Mathura. Architect Mayank Garg made a presentation to...
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Today’s Digest: Goshalas accused of neglecting cows, and more…
Goshalas accused of neglect. An article by Jagran today claims that 90% of the Bhagavatam preachers who raise funds in the name of cow seva do not keep any cows. The article laments the poor state of...
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Kuvalayapida Vadh celebrated in leadup to Kamsa Vadh
Vrindavan, 2017.10.27 (VT): In Mathura on Thursday, an effigy of the demonic elephant Kuvalayapida was destroyed by Krishna and Balram. A reenactment of an event from Shri Krishna’s lila about 5,000...
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Govinda Lilamrita Raas : Rati Keli
52 Groggy with the madhu and Kandarpa’s arrows, Krishna takes the tipsy Radha by the hand and leads her to a bed of flowers in a kunja beside the Yamuna, which had been decorated by Vrinda in advance....
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Today’s Digest: Monkey control becomes election issue, and more…
Monkey control becomes election issue. In the lead up to local elections, the monkey issue is being taken up by politicians who are vying to give promises for how they will control the problem. It is...
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Govinda Lilamrita Raas :: Water sports (Jala vihara)
63-64 To relieve the fatigue of the Rasa and his rati-vilāsa with the gopis, Krishna gathers them together and enters the Yamuna for jala-vihāra—Just as a drunken elephant enters the water with his...
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Krishna and his cows worshipped on Gopashtami in Vrindavan
Vrindavan, 2017.10.28 (VT): Today is the festival of Gopashtami. In Vrindavan, Gopashtami is known as the day the Child Krishna graduated from tending calves to herding grown-up cows. On this day, Shri...
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Vrindavan and Barsana have just been declared official pilgrimage sites: what...
Vrindavan, 2017.10.28 (VT): The government of Uttar Pradesh on Friday announced that Vrindavan and Barsana are now tirtha sthal – official pilgrimage sites. In a special meeting at the Vairagi Baba...
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Today’s Digest: Sri Krishna first grazed cows on Gopastami, and more…
Sri Krishna first grazed cows on Gopastami. Yesterday, locals and tourists celebrated Gopastami in all of the temples and traditional homes of Braj. ISKCON Vrindavan follows the tradition of dressing...
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Yamuna khadar and the view from Madan Mohan
Vrindavan, 2017.10.28 (VT): A few days ago, foreign devotees living in Vrindavan were requested to make their suggestions known for the development of the Dham. Adityanath Yogi, the CM of Uttar...
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