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July 4th, 2006 • Recording of kirtan sung on Nityananda Trayodasi in 2006.
July 2nd, 2006 • Niyama Seva #2: Songs In praise of Gauracandra, continuing the series.
June 5th, 2006 • Gopastami: Recording of lila-kirtana describing Gostha-lila, Krishna's pastimes in the pastures of Vraja.
June 1st, 2006 • In the temples of Radha-kunda: Video recording of songs during the month of Niyama-seva, part one of four.
May 29th, 2006 • Visiting Govinda-kunda at Govardhan: Songs of Gopala's discovery from Chaitanya Caritamrita, audio recorded on a parikrama-procession on the full-moon day of Magh, 2006.
May 25th, 2006 • Today in video: Niyama-seva parikrama. Circumambulating Radha-kunda and visiting temples on the way, 58 minutes of nectar for download.
May 22nd, 2006 • Today in audio: Adhivasa-kirtan. Completing the series, now over eight hours of kirtan!
May 18th, 2006 • Today in audio: Kartta Sri Krishna Das Babaji's Tirobhava-festival. Released a bit late due to technical difficulties.
May 15th, 2006 • Doh! It was supposed to be audio on Mondays, but we went ahead and released a video instead. And an awesome video it is, featuring Holi at Shyamasundar Mandir, color flying in all directions, joy and enthusiasm overflowing!
Google is still sitting on top of the version of the video supposed to appear on their site, it'll be available in a day or two as the entry clears through. Regular files are available as always.
May 12th, 2006 • Video footage from the festival of Siddha Krishna Das Baba has now been released, a total of a bit over 40 minutes of kirtan, including a beautiful rendition of Thakur Mahashaya's Sri Rupa Paschate Ami.
May 8th, 2006 • The audio recording for Surya-kunda Siddha Baba's Tirobhava-festival has been added. The files for Sri Advaita Das Babaji's Tirobhava-festival have been re-processed, x264-versions have been added.
May 6th, 2006 • Entries for Nityananda Trayodasi and Shiva-ratri have been re-processed, x264-versions have been added.
May 5th, 2006 • With the delay of the audio entry, this week's video has also been released a day later. Today, the Festival of Priyacharan Das Babaji from 2005 has been completed with the addition of an hour of beautiful adhivasa-kirtan. All files have been re-processed, x264-versions have been added. Additionally, the fourth part of the Baba's Teachings series has been re-processed.
May 3rd, 2006 • This week's audio release is a bit late – sorry! We are releasing the entire audio recording of Sri Kunjabihari Das Babaji's festival as two separate entries, Adhivasa and Tirobhava. The recording quality is higher than what's heard on the video, as it has been recorded with a separate device equipped with a better microphone located closer to the kirtaniyas.
April 27th, 2006 • This week's video entry, featuring footage from Gaura Purnima 2005, has now been added in.
Entries for Maghi Purnima and Advaita Saptami have been reprocessed and x264-files have been added.
April 25th, 2006 • An x264-encoded file has now been added for the third part of the Baba's Teachings series, the video has been reprocessed. x264-files have also been added to the entry on the tirobhava-day of Sri Kunjabihari Das Babaji's festival.
April 24th, 2006 • The first part of the Adhivasa-kirtana entry is now available in audio. The second part of the Baba's Teachings series has been reprocessed, and an x264-encoded file has been added.
April 21th, 2006 • New x264-encoded files have now been added for the adhivasa-kirtan of Sri Kunjabihari Das Babaji's festival.
April 20th, 2006 • The footage from the tirobhava-day of Sri Kunjabihari Das Babaji's festival is now available, complementing last week's release of the adhivasa-kirtan, with over three hours of video.
April 19th, 2006 • The first volume of the Baba's Teachings series has been re-released. For the changes, please read today's entry in the Notepad. With the new x264-compressed file, you can now enjoy near-DVD quality with a file size smaller than VCD!
April 17th, 2006 • Similar in style to the earlier entry on Purva-raga, Krishna-rupa-kirtana (audio) has been released, featuring almost four hours of songs describing Krishna's beauty. Future releases will be appearing twice weekly, audio on Mondays and video on Thursdays. The weekly newsletter will be sent on Friday.
April 12th, 2006 • The opening kirtan for Sri Kunjabihari Das Babaji's festival (2005) (video) is out and available, pending the release of the tirobhava-festival itself – coming up next week.
April 10th, 2006 • The entry on Purva-raga - Radha and Krishna fall in love (audio) has been re-released, split into individual tracks. The original release consisted of two files only, which was a bit excessive for an entry as long as this.
• The entry on Advaita Das Babaji's Tirobhava-festival (audio) has been re-released with some background noise cleaned up.
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!
July 8th, 2005 A new series — Lake of Flowers Audio — has been released. All files are offered 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. If you have good audio recordings to contribute, please contact us!
June 5th, 2005  Four more entries have been added to the Baba's Teachings series:
• #7 - Guru - The spiritual master
• #8 - Topics of devotion
• #9 - Come to Vraja
• #10 - On raganuga-bhakti
This concludes the series for now, adding up to a total of over four hours of questions and answers with Babaji Maharaja.
New footage in the Vraja Festivals series:
• Kirtan at Shyamasundar Mandir
June 1st, 2005  Lake of Flowers Productions would like to express its gratitude to Karunamayi Dasji for contributing a substantial amount of footage of his guruji, Madrasi Sri Krishna Das Babaji Maharaja. The first entry in the series consists of a total of 23 hours of Baba's reading and explaining the Uddhava Sandesh of Rupa Goswami.
Watch the Madrasi Baba series for this entry and all future materials on the theme.
A new entry has been added to the Vraja Festivals series — Maghi Purnima.
May 31st, 2005  Two more entries have been added to the Baba's Teachings series:
• #5 - Topics of Gaurachandra
• #6 - Lila - The pastimes of Krishna
Two new additions to the Vraja Festivals series:
• Views from the Tirobhava Mahotsava of Madrasi Sri Krishna Das Babaji Maharaja.
• Shiva Ratri – The Night of Shiva
May 28th, 2005  Three more entries are now available in the Vraja Festivals series:
• Advaita Saptami
• Sri Advaita Das Babaji's Tirobhava
• Adhivasa-kirtans
May 27th, 2005  Three new entries are now available in the Vraja Festivals series:
• Siddha Baba of Surya-kunda
• Vasanta Panchami
• Sri Priyacharan Das Babaji's Tirobhava
MPEG2-versions have been added to all entries released on the 22nd and 23th of May.
May 26th, 2005  Two new entries are now available:
• Vraja Festivals – Siddha Baba of Ranabari
• Baba's Teachings #4 – Sadhana - The practice of spiritual life
All entries now contain links to thumbnails of each minute of the video for quick preview. We are working on subtitling some of the footage. A faq-page has been added to the site.
May 24th, 2005 A new entry in the Vraja Festivals series is out and available:
• Nityananda Trayodasi
This is the first entry offered in both VCD and DVD qualities.
May 23rd, 2005 A new entry in the Vraja Festivals series is out and available:
• Sri Kunjabihari Das Babaji's Tirobhava
May 22nd, 2005  Our first productions have been released at The Internet Archive. The Baba's Teachings series features discussions and interviews with Pandit Sri Ananta Das Babaji Maharaja. Three new episodes:
• Baba's Teachings 1 - Common questions
• Baba's Teachings 2 - Glories of Vraja-dhama
• Baba's Teachings 3 - Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu discovers Radha-kunda
The Vraja Festivals-series features footage from various Vaishnava celebrations. Our first entry in the series is a ten minute compilation of footage on the Holi-festival at Radha-kunda:
• Holi - Festival of Color - Compilation
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