Lake of Flowers Publications

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LAKE OF FLOWERS

 

Lake of Flowers Productions was founded to facilitate the availability of educational and inspirational media connected with the tradition of Sri Chaitanya. Our productions are the outcome of the endeavors of individuals, who have contributed of their footage and recordings for use in furthering our cause.

 

Everything we produce is freely available for download as high quality video and audio files, offered in cooperation with The Internet Archive and licensed under a Creative Commons license that allows everyone to copy and distribute them for non-commercial purposes. They are also available on CDs and DVDs for a nominal fee.

 

 

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS

 

The Baba's Teachings series features discussions and interviews with Pandit Sri Ananta Das Babaji Maharaja – one of the leading teachers of the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition – on a wide range of topics on theology, philosophy and the practice of spiritual life.

 

The Vraja Festivals series presents a collection of footage from traditional Vaishnava-celebrations, featuring songs of celebration (kirtan), circumambulation of holy places (parikrama) and views of saints living in the holy land of Vraja.

 

 

HOW CAN I PARTICIPATE?

 

There are many ways to participate in the endeavor. Here are some examples:

 

• Share. If you have good quality video footage or audio recordings you'd like to make freely available, we'll help you get them processed.

• Donate. Financial contributions assist in producing new material and help the staff cover other related costs.

• Advertise. Tell your friends and fellow beings about Lake of Flowers, invite them over for a visit.

 

 

Don't hesitate to get in touch with us, we'd love to hear from you. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.lakeofflowers.com/ .

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LAKE OF FLOWERS - NEWS

 

New footage available

 

A great deal of new material has been added since our opening announcement. In the Vraja Festivals series, you'll find the following new entries in both DVD and VCD quality footage:

<ul type="square">[*] Nityananda Trayodasi

[*] Siddha Baba of Ranabari

[*] Siddha Baba of Surya-kunda

[*] Vasanta Panchami

[*] Sri Priyacharan Das Babaji's Tirobhava

[*] Advaita Saptami

[*] Sri Advaita Das Babaji's Tirobhava

[*] Adhivasa-kirtans

Vraja Festivals page. A new entry covering various topics on bhakti-sadhana has also been added to the Baba's Teachings series.

 

Affiliate program

 

Send visitors to our website – we'll send you a free VCD or DVD for every 250 individual visitors we receive, shipped free of charge to anywhere in the world! Read more at the Affiliate page at Lake of Flowers.

 

Contributors sought

 

If you have footage or audio recordings of traditional Gaudiya Vaishnava festivals and celebrations or other material of interest, we'll help you get the materials processed and available for the public. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with us! http://www.lakeofflowers.com/

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LAKE OF FLOWERS - NEWS

 

The Baba's Teachings series

 

With four new entries, the Baba's Teachings series has been completed for the time being as we are out of footage. That gives us a total of over four hours of questions and answers on a number of essential themes of spiritual life. The themes of the new entries are the following -<ul type="square">[*] #7 - Guru - The spiritual master

[*] #8 - Topics of devotion

[*] #9 - Come to Vraja

[*] #10 - On raganuga-bhakti

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New: The Madrasi Baba series

 

The Madrasi Baba series features discussions and narrations by Madrasi Sri Krishna Das Babaji Maharaja — a respected mahatma who lived on the banks of Radha-kunda and introduced many fortunate souls to its mysteries. Lake of Flowers Productions would like to thank Karunamayi Dasji for making the footage available. You can view the series here.

 

The Vraja Festivals series

 

A good many new entries have been added, increasing the total to twenty-two videos covering almost ten hours of festivities — and many more entries are yet to come. We estimate to have most of our current footage processed and available by the end of the month. Browse the Vraja Festivals series here.

 

Downloading from the Archive

 

While you're downloading from The Internet Archive, we'd appreciate if you took a moment and added a short review of the titles there. Having titles reviewed helps in giving them better visibility in the future for people who find the files directly from the Archive without coming through the Lake of Flowers portal.

 

Ongoing projects

 

The Baba's Teachings series is currently being subtitled for ease of comprehension for those who may have problems following Babaji Maharaja's accentuated English, or otherwise grasping the narration from amidst the often marvelous background noise in Vraja. Subtitles will also be added to many of the parikrama-videos with information on the various locations.

 

We are processing the audio archives of Advaitadas, hoping to clarify the sound of this great collection of field recordings from various kirtans at Radha-kunda. The infrastructure for a high-resolution still image archive is being worked on. If you have collections to contribute — whether video, audio or still images — you're cordially invited to get in touch with us and discuss how it could best be shared with the world.

 

http://www.lakeofflowers.com/

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Lake of Flowers - July 8th News

 

A new series — Lake of Flowers Audio — has been released, featuring over thirteen hours of traditional Bengali kirtan.

 

All files are offered for free download as high-quality lossless FLAC-files, as Ogg Vorbis files, as well as in mp3-format in 192kbps and 64kbps qualities. The following entries, recorded by our staff during late 2004 and early 2005, are now available:

 

• Sri Kunjabihari Das Babaji's Tirobhava

• Sri Priyacharan Das Babaji's Tirobhava

• Sri Advaita Das Babaji's Tirobhava

• Nityananda Trayodasi

• Purva-raga - Radha and Krishna fall in love

• Sucaka Kirtan

• Shyamasundar Mandir

 

This concludes the series consisting of our own recordings for now. We will now begin the processing of some contributed materials.

http://www.lakeofflowers.com/index.php?pool=productions

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September 29th, 2005

 

The long overdue Lake of Flowers Gallery is finally available! Six hundred pictures of choice, selected from our stock of over 3000 shots, sorted according to theme in dozens of categories. Prints available upon request.

 

Current main categories under Vraja 2005 are:

 

• Deities • Fauna • Festivals • Flora • Gokula • Govardhan • Kamyavan • Nandagram • Outside • People • Radha-kunda • Temples • Varshana • Vrindavan

 

We hope you enjoy watching the views as much as we enjoyed shooting them while spending our days amidst them!

http://www.lakeofflowers.com/index.php?pool=gallery