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Videos
Aarti, darshan, seva
Chanting
Kirtan and japa
Temples
Timings and visits
Braj culture
Barsana, Holi, the greeting
Videos
Braj film
A rose-ringed parrot on a flowering kadamba branch, the tree of Krishna's groves. Shuka, the parrot, is Radha's own companion in the poetry of Braj.
Made in-house for Radhe Radhe; real recorded sound, credited below.
Video
Maithili Thakur sings for Janmashtami at Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir, published on her own channel.
Source: Maithili Thakur, official channel, checked 2026-07-07
Video
The maha aarti at Prem Mandir, written and composed by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj and filmed on his mission's official channel. Watch it full screen, with the sound on.
Source: Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj, official channel, checked 2026-07-07
Chanting
Braj film
A Braj cow with her calf by the Yamuna. Krishna is Gopala, the keeper of cows; every temple in Vrindavan keeps its gaushala.
Made in-house for Radhe Radhe; real recorded sound, credited below.
Chanting
The temple's Kirtan Mela, hours of kirtan streamed live from Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir and published on the temple's own channel.
Source: Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir, official channel, checked 2026-07-11
Chanting
Kirtan at ISKCON Vrindavan's Krishna Balarama Mandir, where the maha mantra is sung day and night and published as it happens.
Source: ISKCON Vrindavan, official channel, checked 2026-07-07
Chanting
The first kirtan of the day at Krishna Balarama Mandir, filmed and published by ISKCON Vrindavan's own channel.
Source: ISKCON Vrindavan, official channel, checked 2026-07-07
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The temple marked the Panihati Chida Dahi Mahotsav and Nauka Vihar Utsav together. The morning began with a mango alankara for the deities and a Chappan Bhog, then a pallaki carried Sri Sri Gaura Nitai to the pond for a panchamrita and pushpa abhisheka. Sri Chanchalapathi Dasa spoke on the festival, the deities were rowed across the water in a decorated boat, and chida dahi mahaprasadam was handed out from the boat to the gathered devotees.
Source: Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir, official website, checked 2026-07-20
Kirtan
An evening of kirtan and bhajan at the temple, sung by children and matajis before Sri Sri Radha Vrindavanchandra. The temple describes the congregational chanting as a living tradition of Braj carried by voices of all ages.
Source: Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir, official website, checked 2026-07-20
Festival
The temple's report says this year's Gaura Purnima coincided with a lunar eclipse, the same celestial conditions the tradition holds were present when Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu appeared. The day included a Maha Abhishek, Arati, Phoolon Ki Holi, and a Pallaki Utsav.
Source: Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir, official website, checked 2026-07-13
Temples and places
Braj film
A spotted deer in a forest clearing. The chital still graze the protected groves of Braj, where tradition says Krishna wandered with them.
Made in-house for Radhe Radhe; real recorded sound, credited below.
Temple
Live darshan, festival updates, and the Square Feet seva, from the Hare Krishna Movement's temple rising in Vrindavan. The day runs from Mangal Arati at 4:30 in the morning to Shayana Darshan at 8:15 at night.
Source: Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir, official temple schedule, checked 2026-07-11
Temple
The temple of Shri Ladlee Ji Maharaj on the Barsana hill. Its own site lists darshan from 5 to 1, then 5 to 9 in the evening.
Source: Mandir Shri Ladlee Ji Maharaj, official website, checked 2026-07-11
Temple
The mandir closes through the middle of the day and the hours move with the seasons. In summer, darshan runs 7:45 to noon, then 5:30 to 9:30 in the evening.
Source: Shri Banke Bihari Mandir, official website, checked 2026-07-07
Place
Small twisted trees that Vrindavan's saints hold to be devotees of Banke Bihari, in the forest where Swami Haridas meditated and sang.
Source: District Mathura, Government of Uttar Pradesh, checked 2026-07-11
Temple
Built at the request of Gopala Bhatta Goswami around 1542, it houses the original shaligram deity of Krishna beside Radharani. The district counts it among the seven temples of Thakur of Vrindavan.
Source: District Mathura, Government of Uttar Pradesh, checked 2026-07-07
Temple
ISKCON's first temple, built in 1975 on the banks of the Yamuna where tradition says Krishna and Balarama herded their cows. Srila Prabhupada laid the foundation himself.
Source: District Mathura, Government of Uttar Pradesh, checked 2026-07-07
Temple
Established and inaugurated by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj in February 2012, with Shri Radha Krishna and Shri Sita Ram on its altars, maintained by Jagadguru Kripalu Parishat. Open every day, 8:30 in the morning to noon, then 4:30 to 8:30 in the evening.
Source: Prem Mandir, official website, checked 2026-07-11
Temple
The Radha Vallabh Sampradaya's home temple in Vrindavan. Its own site carries darshan hours, the aarti schedule, and a live darshan.
Source: Shri Radha Vallabh Mandir, official website, checked 2026-07-07
Place
The district tells it plainly: Krishna lifted the mountain for seven days and nights. The 21 kilometer parikrama passes Radha Kund and Kusum Sarovar, 25 kilometers from Mathura on the Deeg road.
Source: District Mathura, Government of Uttar Pradesh, checked 2026-07-07
Temple
One of the oldest and most revered temples in Vrindavan, standing fifty feet tall near Kaliya Ghat in the Nagara style. Madan Mohan shares the altar with Radha and the gopi Lalita.
Source: District Mathura, Government of Uttar Pradesh, checked 2026-07-08
Temple
Jiva Goswami established this temple in 1542 at Seva Kunj, and it ranks among the seven original Goswami temples of Vrindavan. When Aurangzeb's forces reached the town in 1670, the deities were carried to Jaipur for safety and did not return until 1739.
Source: District Mathura, Government of Uttar Pradesh, checked 2026-07-13
Temple
Sri Rangadeshik Swamiji built this temple between 1845 and 1851 to give Andal a shrine in Vrindavan, modelling it on the Ranganatha temple at Srirangam. Its seven-story gopuram and Jaipur-style stone gates mix south and north Indian temple architecture in a way found nowhere else in the town.
Source: Sri Rangji Temple, official website, checked 2026-07-13
Braj culture
Culture
The district tells the legend plainly: Krishna came to tease Radha and her friends in her village, and Barsana's women chased him off. Men from Nandgaon still visit every spring, and the women still greet them with lathis, in the compound of what the district calls the only temple in the country dedicated to Radha.
Source: District Mathura, Government of Uttar Pradesh, checked 2026-07-07
Culture
The district records the rule: only young Brahmin boys of 13 to 14 years can perform the Raaslila, the dance first danced on the Yamuna bank at Vrindavan.
Source: District Mathura, Government of Uttar Pradesh, checked 2026-07-07
Culture
Love songs of the divine couple Radha and Shri Krishna, sung at Holi and every festive occasion in Braj. The district's culture page calls them compulsory.
Source: District Mathura, Government of Uttar Pradesh, checked 2026-07-07
The van
The groves of Vrindavan, slow and still
