Make Vṛndāvana Villages

The book this project takes its name from, and the one to start with. His Holiness Bhakti Rāghava Swami wrote it as a general introduction to varṇāśrama-dharma for readers who have never encountered the term: what the four varṇas and four āśramas actually are, why Śrīla Prabhupāda called establishing them the unfinished half of his own mission, and what a village built on those principles looks like in practice.

This second edition runs to roughly double the first, and the additions are practical: an interview on the varṇāśrama shift, a chapter on the Vaiṣṇava village at Gītā-nāgarī Baru in Indonesia, a curriculum drawn from the Vedas, and an article called “Varṇāśrama: Mission Impossible”, addressed to devotees who agree with the goal and have no idea where to begin. It has been translated into Bahasa Indonesia, French, Spanish, Telugu and several other languages.