Articles tagged as West-virginia

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  New Vrindaban Holds Small Rural Rathayatra with COVID-19 Restrictions

  In a small procession consisting of the chariot-truck along with several devotees’ cars, Jagannath, Baladeva and Subhadra visited six different spots across New Vrindaban. 

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  Sacinandana Swami Brings Experiential “Living Name” Retreat to New Vrindaban

  The Living Name Retreat is a unique experience focused on reigniting one’s relationship with the Holy Name.

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  High Tunnels Grow Vegetables and Flowers for New Vrindaban Deities into Winter Months

  In West Virginia, the first frost can hit in Fall and the last in late Spring, halting the growing season all the way from October to May. But devotees in New Vrindaban, ISKCON’s first farm community have just introduced three high tunnel greenhouses, allowing them to offer locally grown flowers and vegetables to Sri Sri Radha Vrindabanchandra and the temple kitchens all year round.  

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  Prabhupada’s Palace Added to National Register of Historic Places

  “For the past number of years, we’ve been trying to get the Palace a status as a historic building in West Virginia,” said Palace Reunion Festival organizer Sukhavaha Dasi, to cheers from the crowd. “It’s a federal thing, not just a state thing, backing that this is a historic building!”

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  40th Anniversary of Prabhupada’s Palace Brings Memories, Connection and Healing

  Srila Prabhupada’s Palace is one of ISKCON’s most impressive achievements. Built by young, inexperienced devotees who trained themselves in construction and artisanal skills, it began in 1973 as a simple residence for Prabhupada.

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  40th Anniversary of Prabhupada’s Palace to Honor Devotees Who Built It

  Devotees began building the Palace themselves back in 1973 as a residence for Srila Prabhupada, when he expressed a desire to retire to New Vrindaban and translate his books. Young and inexperienced, they trained themselves in construction and artisanal skills.

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  ISKCON Farms Make Progress as New Vrindaban Hosts 2019 Conference

  2019 marks the 50^{t h}anniversary of cow protection in ISKCON, so it’s an excellent time to look at and celebrate that progress. And this year’s North American Farm Conference will take place where it all started – New Vrindaban, West Virginia.

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  New Vrindaban Positions Itself As Summer Destination for Devotees Worldwide

  “We’d like devotees in all the city temples in North America and beyond to consider New Vrindaban their country home, a place where they can recuperate and regenerate physically and spiritually,” says ISKCON New Vrindaban communications director Anuradha Dasi.

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  Japa Retreat With Sacinandana Swami to Dive Deep Into the Holy Name

  Around 150 devotees are expected to travel in from all over the USA as well as from Europe and other locations for the retreat, which will run Mother’s Day Weekend from May 10^th to 12^th.

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  Eco-Vrindaban Searching for President to Oversee Cow Protection and Gardening

  In his grand vision for New Vrindaban, Srila Prabhupada regularly described cow protection and local agriculture as the “main business” for its residents.

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  Appreciating New Vrindaban-Dhama, Her Beauty and Glory, Message and Grace - Photobook by Varsana Swami

  Nestled in the wooded hilltops of the Appalachian Foothills, New Vrindaban is a favorite destination for thousands of pilgrims every year. Varsana Swami’s new photo book is an invitation to realize and enter its deeper, magical dimensions of Sri Dhama.

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  ISKCON New Vrindaban Seeks Three New Executive Directors

  “New Vrindaban is not your average temple – it’s a very big and complex project, because it has so many departments to take care of,” says search committee chairperson Vrindavan Das. “So instead of having one temple president take care of everything, we are restructuring and creating a management team of three ‘executive directors’ who will work as a team.”

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  Gopal Agarwal, Prabhupada's Initial Sponsor in the West, Passes Away

  On July 31^st, Gopal Agarwal, husband of Sally and father of two daughters, Srila Prabhupada’s first sponsor in the West, left his body due to old age afflictions. 

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  Bhaktivedanta Vedic Library Offers Free Spiritual Resources for Newcomers, Families and Preachers

  The newly-launched Bhaktivedanta Vedic Library, offers audiobooks of ISKCON Founder-Acharya Srila Prabhupada’s works for free, to stream or download onto your laptop, smartphone or other electronic device. It also offers helpful introductory video guides on various elements of the process of Krishna consciousness.

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  Hare Krishna Community Sues DAPL Company to Protect Sacred Lands From Rover Pipeline

  The company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, is facing a familiar legal battle over its proposed Rover Pipeline. A Hare Krishna community in West Virginia is challenging the project on religious grounds, saying that the pipeline's planned route could cut through sacred lands. While the religious organization signed leases in 2010 and 2014 to sell the natural gas under its properties, according to its federal lawsuit filed at U.S. District Court in Wheeling on Tuesday, those leases do not allow for any surface disturbances and blocks off sacred areas from outside intrusion.

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  Ramayana Musical Premiers at West Liberty University

  A two-and-a-half hour musical production of India’s ancient epic the Ramayana entitled “Ramayana: Past in Present” premiered from August 25^th to 28^th in the Kelley Theater at West Liberty University, West Virginia, USA. Opening on Janmastami night with an auspicious 108 people in the audience, the musical carried students and faculty into a whole new world of culture, adventure and philosophy.

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  Kulimela Blends Service, Fun, Family and Community

  The first Kulimela, held in New Vrindaban, West Virginia in 2006, was an effort by ISKCON’s second generation to move away from party-style gurukuli reunions and explore their identity and what they could accomplish both materially and spiritually. The 10^th anniversary of that Mela, which also took place in New Vrindaban from June 15^th to 19^th this year, took those themes further and showed new levels of maturity and stability amongst the Kuli community, while still being full of joy and celebration.

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  New Vrindaban Celebrates 30th Anniversary of U.S.A’s Only Full-Size Nrsimha

  For thirty years, a very special Lord Nrsimhadeva Deity has protected the devotees of New Vrindaban and all of North America, and received their love and service. Now, residents of the West Virginia village want to invite people from all over North America to come celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of His installation, and to behold the only full-size Nrsimha Deity on the continent, on His sacred appearance day.

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  An Eternal Relationship: Prabhupada’s Fourth Visit to New Vrindaban

  June 21^st, 1976 was a normal day at the Pittsburgh International airport until a group of Krishna devotees from New Vrindaban  appeared.
  

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  Prabhupada’s Family Bonds At 15th Festival of Inspiration in New Vrindaban

  Launched in 2000, Festival of Inspiration kicked off the “spiritual retreat holiday” template that is so common throughout ISKCON today, and with its packed roster of seminars on a broad range of topics, it remains one of the most popular and unique.

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  Strengthening The Vision: Prabhupada’s Third Visit to New Vrindaban

  This article is part of a series connecting New Vrindaban, ISKCON's first farm community, to the grand visions by Srila Prabhupada.

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  The Bhagavat Dharma Experience: Prabhupada’s Second Visit to New Vrindaban

  Over 500 devotees and guests had flooded in from all over the US for the biggest public event ISKCON had so far.