The last legendary Authentic Lineage of Baul from Birbhum, Babu Kishan's Grandmother Oral Sanskritist Master Vaishnava Storyteller and her daughter Aunt Radharani Dasi may they rest in Peace.
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Please Note:
Baul is not an umbrella Name, it is a misused and abused name. It is a Sanskrit Name that comes from 2 Sanskrit root words. Vayu and Tula to balance the vital air, the wind in the body, Vayu Dharma aka Pranayama, "the Wind Catchers" and the Rasa Lila Mystics as described by Babu Kishan and only Babu Kishan. If you see others this printed is is copy and paste from Babu Kishan. All will be qualified.
Baul is already Archived and Preserved, Babu Kishan did this decades ago, it is safe and will be published one by one when the time is right. He worked on preserving and archiving Baul for more than 60 years. It has been DONE by someone in the tradition, oral and manuscripts, it is complete.
Baul poetry is important to the Bauls this is how they have passed their tradition on for thousands of years, there used to be ethics, they knew who wrote the poetry. Today many new Bauls tourists are taking Nabani Das Khyapa Baul poetry and putting other peoples names on the poetry and making up Baul lineages that never existed. This deconstruction of saying Bauls do not care, is false, it is more important than ever to get it correct because Baul is extinct and the true stories must be preserved, not by an outsider but by someone from inside who actually knows. Baul has been preserved, it only needs to be presented accurately.
If anybody is saying they are preserving Baul, think twice before you fall into donating money because it has already been preserved, there is no need for an outsider to procure donations to do what does not belong to them, especially when it is complete? This is cheating and making people stupid, which Babu Kishan never could stand by anyone in any of the Indian traditions including his very own.
Babu Kishan will speak about this in shortly in a big way and through the press.
He will speak out about his very own family and how his younger brother who has completely destroyed this beautiful Baul Lineage and his fathers name. So the destruction of Baul lies very close, it has not only been destroyed by the 'fake it til you make it fake Bauls' and misinterpreted translations and complete misunderstanding by scholars, it has been also very sadly been destroyed from within this lineage and family.
All the years Babu Kishan has served and preserved lineage Baul and the Baul community to see it chipped away and destroyed is seriously wrong. His dream since he was little was to serve and preserve, the whole story must be told for good or ill, no one will be left untouched in his new book, "Historical Baul" at least his story will be told and archives will be released, then go and make up what you want, one person swimming up steam against a current of destruction can only swim so long.
Baul has already been Archived and Preserved by this ONE and ONLY Lineage of BAUL, it has been preserved by this Lineage and by Babu Kishan who was born to do just that, to Archive his Lineage. His Lineage and family that all Bauls Follow, they sing their songs, dress as them, follow them around the world, some copy every move? Anybody who calls themselves DAS BAUL or DASI is following this lineage. Jai Nitai.
There is much watering down, dumbing down and reductionism going on with the new Nakal Baul singers, some are not even from Bengal yet they are making up stories that they are going to Archive Baul, this has been done already. They ride on the Coat Tails of this ancient oral (Sanskrit) tradition and to fundraise for something that is already complete.
Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul will be speaking out publicly in the next few months on Baul on his Lineage. His new book the 4th Historical Baul is coming soon.
The book and his speaking out is a very long time in coming. Many fakes have come out of the woodwork and are now claiming the narrative of Baul and this lineage for fundraising purposes.
Please Note:
Baul is not an umbrella Name, it is a misused and abused name. It is a Sanskrit Name that comes from 2 Sanskrit root words. Vayu and Tula to balance the vital air, the wind in the body, Vayu Dharma aka Pranayama, "the Wind Catchers" and the Rasa Lila Mystics as described by Babu Kishan and only Babu Kishan. If you see others this printed is is copy and paste from Babu Kishan. All will be qualified.
Baul is already Archived and Preserved, Babu Kishan did this decades ago, it is safe and will be published one by one when the time is right. He worked on preserving and archiving Baul for more than 60 years. It has been DONE by someone in the tradition, oral and manuscripts, it is complete.
Baul poetry is important to the Bauls this is how they have passed their tradition on for thousands of years, there used to be ethics, they knew who wrote the poetry. Today many new Bauls tourists are taking Nabani Das Khyapa Baul poetry and putting other peoples names on the poetry and making up Baul lineages that never existed. This deconstruction of saying Bauls do not care, is false, it is more important than ever to get it correct because Baul is extinct and the true stories must be preserved, not by an outsider but by someone from inside who actually knows. Baul has been preserved, it only needs to be presented accurately.
If anybody is saying they are preserving Baul, think twice before you fall into donating money because it has already been preserved, there is no need for an outsider to procure donations to do what does not belong to them, especially when it is complete? This is cheating and making people stupid, which Babu Kishan never could stand by anyone in any of the Indian traditions including his very own.
Babu Kishan will speak about this in shortly in a big way and through the press.
He will speak out about his very own family and how his younger brother who has completely destroyed this beautiful Baul Lineage and his fathers name. So the destruction of Baul lies very close, it has not only been destroyed by the 'fake it til you make it fake Bauls' and misinterpreted translations and complete misunderstanding by scholars, it has been also very sadly been destroyed from within this lineage and family.
All the years Babu Kishan has served and preserved lineage Baul and the Baul community to see it chipped away and destroyed is seriously wrong. His dream since he was little was to serve and preserve, the whole story must be told for good or ill, no one will be left untouched in his new book, "Historical Baul" at least his story will be told and archives will be released, then go and make up what you want, one person swimming up steam against a current of destruction can only swim so long.
Baul has already been Archived and Preserved by this ONE and ONLY Lineage of BAUL, it has been preserved by this Lineage and by Babu Kishan who was born to do just that, to Archive his Lineage. His Lineage and family that all Bauls Follow, they sing their songs, dress as them, follow them around the world, some copy every move? Anybody who calls themselves DAS BAUL or DASI is following this lineage. Jai Nitai.
There is much watering down, dumbing down and reductionism going on with the new Nakal Baul singers, some are not even from Bengal yet they are making up stories that they are going to Archive Baul, this has been done already. They ride on the Coat Tails of this ancient oral (Sanskrit) tradition and to fundraise for something that is already complete.
Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul will be speaking out publicly in the next few months on Baul on his Lineage. His new book the 4th Historical Baul is coming soon.
The book and his speaking out is a very long time in coming. Many fakes have come out of the woodwork and are now claiming the narrative of Baul and this lineage for fundraising purposes.
Baul does not mean 'afflicted by the wind' as repeated over and over from Scholar to Scholar then as a truth, to the new Baul singers themselves. If you copy this please give credit to Babu Kishan.
This is the perfect example of NOT believing what you read?
This is the perfect example of NOT believing what you read?
This a very valuable picture at #Kolkata’s #PGHospital!! Still remember from our family I am the one ☝️ took my grandmother and went to see last time #PoetNazrulIslam!!
1974 I guess, Who was one of the #Wellwisher of my #GrandFather, and I brought him once to my #Grandfather’s #Deathanniversary too, Nusul Islam wrote ‘Ami Bhai KhyapaBaul Amarjit Deul’…
My father Purna Das Baul recorded "‘Ami Bhai KhyapaBaul Amarjit Deul’ at #HindustanRecods years back with my Grandfather’s composition.
RabindranathTagore wrote ‘Aamr e Paraye Paraye Khepiye Baraye Kong Khyapa se’ about Nabani Das Khyapa Baul whom he named. Mirror of the Sky’ and ‘Khyapa Baul….
The funny thing is everyone now takes the title “Khyapa Baul and Khyapa Baba” to see in the market place, I have noticed many calling themselves #pioneer #Legend #Saint#Khyapa today which does not make any sense, it is shameless? There is only one West Bengal Baul #pioneer #legend #khyapa that was my Grandfather #BaulSaintNabanDasKhyapaBaul.
I was listening and watching someone sent me question from Europe, "BabuDa what is your comment about today’s Bauls? I said no comments why because there is nothing to comment, it is actually an insult, for this I gave my life to preserve the original Bauls, it is all acting? OMG, I guess they are trying, at least they trying to be a Baul Singer if and becoming a #TouristAttractions but Baul NO.
Acting like they something to become Baul is not a easy job dear? No there is no #BaulSadhna or #BaulSadhak nor #Sadhika.. or public can not handle with real Baul! Even today’s Baul Singers are not even close, a 10,000 miles far from my Father and my tunes / compositions which everyone follows still and maybe lifetime forever. They do not even know whose songs they are singing, who they are following, many are taking the songs of my ancestors and creating new lineages, they follow our dress, our songs and the way Nabani Das Khyapa Baul was with the Ektara, Drum and bells (nupoor) his feet, they follow how this lineage dances but yet make up stories.
I am the one who made Baul internationally famous through #Universities #Festivals #TopMusicLebeks#Cinema, Media and it was hard works Dear, at least say the truth rather than pretending you are the one who did all the work, you follow and copy everything I have done, everywhere I have gone. I made so easier for anyone and I made a concrete platform for next generation and for today’s Baul singers. #RabindranathTagore helped little bit from his books and he was initiated into Baul by my Grandfather Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, he was closest to Tagore and when taking about Tagore and Baul is you leave out Nabani Das Khyapa Bauls name, you are misappropriating Baul and making stories. I did all the leg work and the rest by my parents!
I know I said I would not comment but about today’s Baul: It’s too embarrassing how people calling themselves Baul and how everybody is seeing the #Fake, it is acting, it is tourism, a lot of it is just plain stupidity!
Only way before #RabindranathTagore gave the most valuable title #KhyapaBaul to my Grandfather, another thing RabindranathTagore just heard about #LalonFakir’s poetry from his brother but met fist Baul alive and became friendly that was my Grandfather #Birbhumpride #Bengalpride #NabaniDasBaul. Tagore tried to give Nabani whatever he wanted, he tried to keep him with him at all times but you can not capture a real Baul, a real Baul will disappear like the wind. Baul is a wind catcher, you can not catch the wind. Baul is a combination of 2 Sanskrit words “Bayu (Vayu) and Tula” = Baul = to balance the vital airs.
This picture is valuable to me because BabgoBabdhu came to visit and see the last time the Poet, in that gathering he without saying anything, sat on floor and almost cried, like a little child, and told Poet one of his Guru ... never seen so reality .. now everything fake for life I mean life is a fake.
People love/ like all fake, and are blind, they can not even see the real original and reality, it is so bad timing for humanity, when they can not real from fake.
Anything with #Baul like the word #International #World #Global #mystic are all due to me , I am the one did all first, and I never ever thought I would have to say this, it is not bragging, it is because the real history is being mis-appropriated by unfeeling, greedy people who are all about internet marking and changing the history of Baul.
www.BabuKishan.org https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/
This song was a Gift from #KobiNazrulIslam to #NabaniDasKhyapaBaul original recorded at #HindustanRecords 70’s Composed by NabaniDasKhyapaBaul
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xFk85P3GZVY
1974 I guess, Who was one of the #Wellwisher of my #GrandFather, and I brought him once to my #Grandfather’s #Deathanniversary too, Nusul Islam wrote ‘Ami Bhai KhyapaBaul Amarjit Deul’…
My father Purna Das Baul recorded "‘Ami Bhai KhyapaBaul Amarjit Deul’ at #HindustanRecods years back with my Grandfather’s composition.
RabindranathTagore wrote ‘Aamr e Paraye Paraye Khepiye Baraye Kong Khyapa se’ about Nabani Das Khyapa Baul whom he named. Mirror of the Sky’ and ‘Khyapa Baul….
The funny thing is everyone now takes the title “Khyapa Baul and Khyapa Baba” to see in the market place, I have noticed many calling themselves #pioneer #Legend #Saint#Khyapa today which does not make any sense, it is shameless? There is only one West Bengal Baul #pioneer #legend #khyapa that was my Grandfather #BaulSaintNabanDasKhyapaBaul.
I was listening and watching someone sent me question from Europe, "BabuDa what is your comment about today’s Bauls? I said no comments why because there is nothing to comment, it is actually an insult, for this I gave my life to preserve the original Bauls, it is all acting? OMG, I guess they are trying, at least they trying to be a Baul Singer if and becoming a #TouristAttractions but Baul NO.
Acting like they something to become Baul is not a easy job dear? No there is no #BaulSadhna or #BaulSadhak nor #Sadhika.. or public can not handle with real Baul! Even today’s Baul Singers are not even close, a 10,000 miles far from my Father and my tunes / compositions which everyone follows still and maybe lifetime forever. They do not even know whose songs they are singing, who they are following, many are taking the songs of my ancestors and creating new lineages, they follow our dress, our songs and the way Nabani Das Khyapa Baul was with the Ektara, Drum and bells (nupoor) his feet, they follow how this lineage dances but yet make up stories.
I am the one who made Baul internationally famous through #Universities #Festivals #TopMusicLebeks#Cinema, Media and it was hard works Dear, at least say the truth rather than pretending you are the one who did all the work, you follow and copy everything I have done, everywhere I have gone. I made so easier for anyone and I made a concrete platform for next generation and for today’s Baul singers. #RabindranathTagore helped little bit from his books and he was initiated into Baul by my Grandfather Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, he was closest to Tagore and when taking about Tagore and Baul is you leave out Nabani Das Khyapa Bauls name, you are misappropriating Baul and making stories. I did all the leg work and the rest by my parents!
I know I said I would not comment but about today’s Baul: It’s too embarrassing how people calling themselves Baul and how everybody is seeing the #Fake, it is acting, it is tourism, a lot of it is just plain stupidity!
Only way before #RabindranathTagore gave the most valuable title #KhyapaBaul to my Grandfather, another thing RabindranathTagore just heard about #LalonFakir’s poetry from his brother but met fist Baul alive and became friendly that was my Grandfather #Birbhumpride #Bengalpride #NabaniDasBaul. Tagore tried to give Nabani whatever he wanted, he tried to keep him with him at all times but you can not capture a real Baul, a real Baul will disappear like the wind. Baul is a wind catcher, you can not catch the wind. Baul is a combination of 2 Sanskrit words “Bayu (Vayu) and Tula” = Baul = to balance the vital airs.
This picture is valuable to me because BabgoBabdhu came to visit and see the last time the Poet, in that gathering he without saying anything, sat on floor and almost cried, like a little child, and told Poet one of his Guru ... never seen so reality .. now everything fake for life I mean life is a fake.
People love/ like all fake, and are blind, they can not even see the real original and reality, it is so bad timing for humanity, when they can not real from fake.
Anything with #Baul like the word #International #World #Global #mystic are all due to me , I am the one did all first, and I never ever thought I would have to say this, it is not bragging, it is because the real history is being mis-appropriated by unfeeling, greedy people who are all about internet marking and changing the history of Baul.
www.BabuKishan.org https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/
This song was a Gift from #KobiNazrulIslam to #NabaniDasKhyapaBaul original recorded at #HindustanRecords 70’s Composed by NabaniDasKhyapaBaul
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xFk85P3GZVY
The Ektara and Baya style of Baul only comes from Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, he is the first and all others have copied him.Nabani Das Khyapa Baul was the Baul who initiated Rabindranath Tagore into Baul. Photo 1930's or earlier.
https://bhavaproject.weebly.com/tagore--baul.html
The photo below was taken by Rabindranath Tagore's Photographer. In the photo you can see the style and dance that was created by Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, he was the first to use the Ektara and Baya in this style. All other copied his style of dance and song. Nabani was very popular yet unattached as he was a Baul Avadhuta. When Nabani passed away in 1969 all of Birbhum shut down to honour him. Today because of cultural appropriation and story making by Nakal Baul his story and style has been copied but his name cut off. This is what we hope to do, to tell the truth and restore the legacy that Babu Kishan archived decades ago.
The style of his dance and the instruments he used and how he used him were particular to him. His son Purna Das Baul of course did what his father did. This was not a common styles of Baul dance and song before Nabani, this is his style that all copy today. The Ektara called the Gopi Yantra was always part of this Lineage and came from this one and only Lineage of Tantric Vaishnava Baul. The Ektara is the Bauls Yantra, it is also a symbol of peace.
Those who are using this style are following Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and this Lineage. Nabani Das Khyapa Baul is Babu Kishan's Grandfather and Guru, he lived his first 8 years on Nabani's lap.
https://bhavaproject.weebly.com/tagore--baul.html
The photo below was taken by Rabindranath Tagore's Photographer. In the photo you can see the style and dance that was created by Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, he was the first to use the Ektara and Baya in this style. All other copied his style of dance and song. Nabani was very popular yet unattached as he was a Baul Avadhuta. When Nabani passed away in 1969 all of Birbhum shut down to honour him. Today because of cultural appropriation and story making by Nakal Baul his story and style has been copied but his name cut off. This is what we hope to do, to tell the truth and restore the legacy that Babu Kishan archived decades ago.
The style of his dance and the instruments he used and how he used him were particular to him. His son Purna Das Baul of course did what his father did. This was not a common styles of Baul dance and song before Nabani, this is his style that all copy today. The Ektara called the Gopi Yantra was always part of this Lineage and came from this one and only Lineage of Tantric Vaishnava Baul. The Ektara is the Bauls Yantra, it is also a symbol of peace.
Those who are using this style are following Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and this Lineage. Nabani Das Khyapa Baul is Babu Kishan's Grandfather and Guru, he lived his first 8 years on Nabani's lap.
BAUL IS an ORAL and INTANGIBLE
CULTURAL HERITAGE of HUMANITY
UNESCO 2005
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When the UNESCO made this declaration they did not talk to any real Bauls, they gave some '9 million Dollars' to a 'Bangladeshi UN official' who obviously thought this was a good way to line his pockets and disappear, he made up stories about Baul being from Persia and completely fabricated his story? People are still fabricating lineages and culturally appropriating Baul. Please note* Baul does not need to be Archived, it has been Archived already!
Baul is only an Oral Sanskrit tradition, the Poems were then converted to Bengali and sang in 'Birbhum Bengali' so the villagers so they could understand.
Baul is Extinct, Baul History and Her-story were complete decades ago.
Baul has been preserved and archived decades ago by 'Babu Kishan' and his family long ago. There is no Baul to be archived, it has been done already. What Baul needs are translators.
What people are doing today is a cultural appropriation. There is only One lineage of Baul the 'Das Baul and Dasi Lineage and that is this lineage, all Bauls follow this lineage from Ekachakra Birbhum W Bengal. They sing the songs of this lineage, they dress like this lineage, they go where they do and follow them now around the world.
CULTURAL HERITAGE of HUMANITY
UNESCO 2005
___________________
When the UNESCO made this declaration they did not talk to any real Bauls, they gave some '9 million Dollars' to a 'Bangladeshi UN official' who obviously thought this was a good way to line his pockets and disappear, he made up stories about Baul being from Persia and completely fabricated his story? People are still fabricating lineages and culturally appropriating Baul. Please note* Baul does not need to be Archived, it has been Archived already!
Baul is only an Oral Sanskrit tradition, the Poems were then converted to Bengali and sang in 'Birbhum Bengali' so the villagers so they could understand.
Baul is Extinct, Baul History and Her-story were complete decades ago.
Baul has been preserved and archived decades ago by 'Babu Kishan' and his family long ago. There is no Baul to be archived, it has been done already. What Baul needs are translators.
What people are doing today is a cultural appropriation. There is only One lineage of Baul the 'Das Baul and Dasi Lineage and that is this lineage, all Bauls follow this lineage from Ekachakra Birbhum W Bengal. They sing the songs of this lineage, they dress like this lineage, they go where they do and follow them now around the world.
Fakir, Aul, Sai, Dervish, and Shah are 'NOT' Baul.Fakir, Aul, Sai, Dervish, Shah are 'NOT' Baul. Copyright 2010- 2030 No Baul is not an Umbrella name, who said, or wrote that does not have a clue what they are talking about. They are not a Baul and can be assured are one of the Scholars who are watering down Baul, making a career of dissecting from other copy and paste.
Baul is an oral Sanskrit tradition, the very name which most people do not even understand is based on two Sanskrit root words, Vayu and Tula. One must understand the two of these Sanskrit words and how they come together to create Baul. One must understand that in the 'Bengali language' V (Vayu) in the rest of India, and in Bengali B (Bayu) if you do not understand that how can one represent Baul.
If one says Baul means 'afflicted by the wind' they do not understand, they have copied and pasted it from Edward Dimock who was an American early Bengali scholar, in his Book"The places of the Hidden Moon" he did a great job describing Sahajiya Vaishnavism which is Baul and then in his chapter on Baul he completely got it wrong?
Baul is not Afflicted by the wind, and people use Dimock as the bench mark on what Baul is, which is an insult to the real authentic Baul who has archived his lineage over decades and who is from this lineage, an expert Sanskritist oral and classical at the highest levels, the PHD all over the world used to come to Babu Kishan to learn both Sanskrit and Bengali, even Carol Solomon always came to Babu Kishan and her long story with Babu Kishan will be told, because she tricked him, RIP but it will be told because what she has written on Baul is completely wrong?
Babu Kishan met Dimock and was not impressed he found may discrepancies in his Bengali, that story will be in Babu Kishan's book too. Babu Kishan, asked Lila Roy who was the best ever Bengali translator and most under recorded American Bengali Translator for Rabindranath Tagore and she just shrugged her shoulders in none agreement but she would never say anything bad about anybody.
An example would be Bikram in Bengali and Vikram in Hindi. Vayu = Bayu in Bengali * note* the Vaishnava Bauls are Sanskritists but always sang their songs in Bengali, just as Tulsi Das composed the Hanuman Chalisa in the vernacular language of the villagers, so did the Bauls because their job was to educate the villagers, they were the Guru's.
Bauls are known as the 'Wind Catchers'. Babu Kishan is the first person to explain this, just saying because now you will see others change their story and attribute it to their fake lineages.
More will be written about this in his new book. Baul = Vayu Dharma = the Wind Catchers, yes the Honey catchers and there is a long explanation because they are the Pied Pipers of Vaishnava (a term I used long ago) the Vaishnava Bauls are "The Rasa Lila Mystics" another term coming from Babu Kishan.
If they are this how can they be Fakir, Aul, Sai, Dervish and Shah those of Muslim Sufi if you want to categorize Baul one could say they are 'Hindu Sufi' Sufi as a term to describe the original people of planet earth the people of music, dance and love, who accepted all.
Bauls are Hindu (Sanatan Dharma) they are from before Muslim and they are from 'Bharata Mata' not Persia, Uzbekistan or Saudia Arabia. Bauls are from the soil and soul of Birbhum Bengal India. The people (Bauls who say) that Bauls are from the above places are confused, they are 'riding on the coat tails of this lineage' and at the same destroying the legacy that Babu Kishan and his family created around the world. We know who they are, you copy everything and follow this lineage around the world. Strangely enough the term, 'riding on the coat tails' was coined in Calcutta, this is nothing new.
Bauls accepted all people, they accepted Muslims, they did not become them. All Bauls and other follow this lineage of Baul, Baul and this lineage does not follow others, they accept others. Another misconception Baul is Buddhist, no they are not Buddhists are Baul like and Baul includes not just one part of Hinduism as the Buddhist do, they include all parts. So you can say Buddhism came out of Baul not the other way around. Part of Baul is the Maha Vidya, Hindu Tara Ma one of the Shakti Piths (places) of Tara Pith in Bengal came way before Buddhist Tara, this too can be calculated from the ancient scriptures that originate way before Buddhism.
Baul is different it is based on 'Indian Tantric Yoga' Das Baul and Dasi are not and never were Fakir, Sai, Dervish or Shah, this are Muslim and Baul accepts them but they are not the same. I have recently seen a Baul Women giving a talk at Berkley and she is saying there are 4 types of Baul, she is completely wrong.
This is the problem, this cause reductionism and the destruction, people posing and teaching who do not even know who Bauls are? Fundraising that they are going to archive Baul when Baul is already archived and has been archived decades ago by Babu Kishan. In the past many different groups were wandering around Bengal and they were lumped together under 'Baul', they were not Baul, however, the British had a huge disdain for all wandering people, they were treated badly and they all were called Baul, at the time even the British educated Bengalis did not understand, they were too busy trying to please the British and gain some sort of respectful life.
Fakir, Sai, Aula, Dervesh and Shah are not Baul but were lumped together with the Baul for terminology sake, however the Bauls are a unique and distinct sect, the oldest lineage being the Vaishnava Bauls who were Sanskrit speaking people, they are Brahmin but rejected Brahmanical rules and regulations.
Baul is educated in the oral tradition and this Oral tradition is Sanskrit not just random Bangladeshi Bengali, there is a big difference from Birbhum Bengali and Bangladeshi Bengali.
BhaktiVinode Thakur (1838 -1914) born Kendranath Datta (not a Baul name) was one of the first people in modern times (1800-1900) to pretend he was a Baul with sarcastic poetry. He hated Bauls and other sects and wrote some English poetry to describe why he was a Baul, he denigrated Bauls and many other sects, he put himself on a pedestal. It is kind of like a Muslim attitude, he can criticize others but if you criticize him, his fanatical followers come out of the word work, I was even threatened for stating my opinion?? Bhaktivinode was a man of his time, he was Vaishnava orthodox reformer a British educated who learned Sanskrit later in his life, many in Iskcon follows him. He did a great job but there are some things that one needs to know, he used strong negative language against other sects including the Bauls, he was a meat eater, more about that later.
I speculate BhaktiVinode Thakur never ever met a Baul and absolutely never met anyone from this one and only lineage of Baul in his life but assumed as many people do, mostly western converts who became fundamentalist. He met someone but he did not meet a Baul. Please note, Gosai is added to Bhaktivinode's list too, this lineage is Gosai, he never liked Gosai is aka Gosain, Goswami. This is parroted and printed all over the internet under apasampradaya if only Bhaktivinode had foreseen the future of the branches of what he tried to preserved including the child molesting Western Branch of Vaishnavism from Bengal, who are they to point a finger at anybody, seriously.
When one mentions Baul, the orthodox and Western fundamental Vaishnava come out in hate of Bauls displaying a type of apa-sampradaya that is far from what Vaishnava eve meant, far from what the real Vaishnava who is about and being, 'humbler than a blade of grass'.
For any Baul to parrot there are 4 types of Baul 'Fakir, Aul, Sai, Dervish' this is a huge puzzlement and this Baul now says they are going to archive Baul, how is this possible, when Baul has already been archived decades ago by Babu Kishan???
Same old thing over and over and all inaccurate. Follow your path but do
not call it Baul, follow Baul but at least know what you are copy and pasting. It should be noted, this lineage has been recognized by Gaudiya Vaishnavism, forever, and they have done extensive fundraising for Gaudiya Vaishnavism in Bengal and around the world and not one person ever told them they were apt-sampradaya? A little respect please, their ancestor is Sri Nityananda of Ekachakra, Vaishnava Baul the path of the Avadhuta going back for thousands of years before Sri Nityananda to the story, it said the Pandava's were excited in Ekachakra from the Mahabharata War which if you really know your subject, you can calculate using Jyotish the eyes of the Veda's.
Date of the Mahabharata:
http://www.archive.org/stream/dateofmahabharat00srinuoft#page/4/mode/2up
This lineage is from Nityananda of Ekachakra. Again, more will be qualified in the new Book. It has to be, I could care less about all this but it needs to be understood otherwise all these false writings will remain as truth on the internet and the real authentic origins of Baul will be deleted and screw up by outsiders or mere follower of Baul who never had a clue but wanted to ride on the coat tails of this family and lineage.
The internet has been great, it also, has been very bad in that many fakes have come out of the woodwork, great actors, cheaters who steal Baul songs and put other names on them. Cheaters who make up lineages and stories, who say it does not matter who wrote the songs. How disrespectful!
Baul has become like modern Yoga described as Asana, gymnastics, beer yoga, goat yoga, sex yoga on and on?
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2019/02/fakir-aul-sai-dervish-and-shah-are-not.html
Baul is an oral Sanskrit tradition, the very name which most people do not even understand is based on two Sanskrit root words, Vayu and Tula. One must understand the two of these Sanskrit words and how they come together to create Baul. One must understand that in the 'Bengali language' V (Vayu) in the rest of India, and in Bengali B (Bayu) if you do not understand that how can one represent Baul.
If one says Baul means 'afflicted by the wind' they do not understand, they have copied and pasted it from Edward Dimock who was an American early Bengali scholar, in his Book"The places of the Hidden Moon" he did a great job describing Sahajiya Vaishnavism which is Baul and then in his chapter on Baul he completely got it wrong?
Baul is not Afflicted by the wind, and people use Dimock as the bench mark on what Baul is, which is an insult to the real authentic Baul who has archived his lineage over decades and who is from this lineage, an expert Sanskritist oral and classical at the highest levels, the PHD all over the world used to come to Babu Kishan to learn both Sanskrit and Bengali, even Carol Solomon always came to Babu Kishan and her long story with Babu Kishan will be told, because she tricked him, RIP but it will be told because what she has written on Baul is completely wrong?
Babu Kishan met Dimock and was not impressed he found may discrepancies in his Bengali, that story will be in Babu Kishan's book too. Babu Kishan, asked Lila Roy who was the best ever Bengali translator and most under recorded American Bengali Translator for Rabindranath Tagore and she just shrugged her shoulders in none agreement but she would never say anything bad about anybody.
An example would be Bikram in Bengali and Vikram in Hindi. Vayu = Bayu in Bengali * note* the Vaishnava Bauls are Sanskritists but always sang their songs in Bengali, just as Tulsi Das composed the Hanuman Chalisa in the vernacular language of the villagers, so did the Bauls because their job was to educate the villagers, they were the Guru's.
Bauls are known as the 'Wind Catchers'. Babu Kishan is the first person to explain this, just saying because now you will see others change their story and attribute it to their fake lineages.
More will be written about this in his new book. Baul = Vayu Dharma = the Wind Catchers, yes the Honey catchers and there is a long explanation because they are the Pied Pipers of Vaishnava (a term I used long ago) the Vaishnava Bauls are "The Rasa Lila Mystics" another term coming from Babu Kishan.
If they are this how can they be Fakir, Aul, Sai, Dervish and Shah those of Muslim Sufi if you want to categorize Baul one could say they are 'Hindu Sufi' Sufi as a term to describe the original people of planet earth the people of music, dance and love, who accepted all.
Bauls are Hindu (Sanatan Dharma) they are from before Muslim and they are from 'Bharata Mata' not Persia, Uzbekistan or Saudia Arabia. Bauls are from the soil and soul of Birbhum Bengal India. The people (Bauls who say) that Bauls are from the above places are confused, they are 'riding on the coat tails of this lineage' and at the same destroying the legacy that Babu Kishan and his family created around the world. We know who they are, you copy everything and follow this lineage around the world. Strangely enough the term, 'riding on the coat tails' was coined in Calcutta, this is nothing new.
Bauls accepted all people, they accepted Muslims, they did not become them. All Bauls and other follow this lineage of Baul, Baul and this lineage does not follow others, they accept others. Another misconception Baul is Buddhist, no they are not Buddhists are Baul like and Baul includes not just one part of Hinduism as the Buddhist do, they include all parts. So you can say Buddhism came out of Baul not the other way around. Part of Baul is the Maha Vidya, Hindu Tara Ma one of the Shakti Piths (places) of Tara Pith in Bengal came way before Buddhist Tara, this too can be calculated from the ancient scriptures that originate way before Buddhism.
Baul is different it is based on 'Indian Tantric Yoga' Das Baul and Dasi are not and never were Fakir, Sai, Dervish or Shah, this are Muslim and Baul accepts them but they are not the same. I have recently seen a Baul Women giving a talk at Berkley and she is saying there are 4 types of Baul, she is completely wrong.
This is the problem, this cause reductionism and the destruction, people posing and teaching who do not even know who Bauls are? Fundraising that they are going to archive Baul when Baul is already archived and has been archived decades ago by Babu Kishan. In the past many different groups were wandering around Bengal and they were lumped together under 'Baul', they were not Baul, however, the British had a huge disdain for all wandering people, they were treated badly and they all were called Baul, at the time even the British educated Bengalis did not understand, they were too busy trying to please the British and gain some sort of respectful life.
Fakir, Sai, Aula, Dervesh and Shah are not Baul but were lumped together with the Baul for terminology sake, however the Bauls are a unique and distinct sect, the oldest lineage being the Vaishnava Bauls who were Sanskrit speaking people, they are Brahmin but rejected Brahmanical rules and regulations.
Baul is educated in the oral tradition and this Oral tradition is Sanskrit not just random Bangladeshi Bengali, there is a big difference from Birbhum Bengali and Bangladeshi Bengali.
BhaktiVinode Thakur (1838 -1914) born Kendranath Datta (not a Baul name) was one of the first people in modern times (1800-1900) to pretend he was a Baul with sarcastic poetry. He hated Bauls and other sects and wrote some English poetry to describe why he was a Baul, he denigrated Bauls and many other sects, he put himself on a pedestal. It is kind of like a Muslim attitude, he can criticize others but if you criticize him, his fanatical followers come out of the word work, I was even threatened for stating my opinion?? Bhaktivinode was a man of his time, he was Vaishnava orthodox reformer a British educated who learned Sanskrit later in his life, many in Iskcon follows him. He did a great job but there are some things that one needs to know, he used strong negative language against other sects including the Bauls, he was a meat eater, more about that later.
I speculate BhaktiVinode Thakur never ever met a Baul and absolutely never met anyone from this one and only lineage of Baul in his life but assumed as many people do, mostly western converts who became fundamentalist. He met someone but he did not meet a Baul. Please note, Gosai is added to Bhaktivinode's list too, this lineage is Gosai, he never liked Gosai is aka Gosain, Goswami. This is parroted and printed all over the internet under apasampradaya if only Bhaktivinode had foreseen the future of the branches of what he tried to preserved including the child molesting Western Branch of Vaishnavism from Bengal, who are they to point a finger at anybody, seriously.
When one mentions Baul, the orthodox and Western fundamental Vaishnava come out in hate of Bauls displaying a type of apa-sampradaya that is far from what Vaishnava eve meant, far from what the real Vaishnava who is about and being, 'humbler than a blade of grass'.
For any Baul to parrot there are 4 types of Baul 'Fakir, Aul, Sai, Dervish' this is a huge puzzlement and this Baul now says they are going to archive Baul, how is this possible, when Baul has already been archived decades ago by Babu Kishan???
Same old thing over and over and all inaccurate. Follow your path but do
not call it Baul, follow Baul but at least know what you are copy and pasting. It should be noted, this lineage has been recognized by Gaudiya Vaishnavism, forever, and they have done extensive fundraising for Gaudiya Vaishnavism in Bengal and around the world and not one person ever told them they were apt-sampradaya? A little respect please, their ancestor is Sri Nityananda of Ekachakra, Vaishnava Baul the path of the Avadhuta going back for thousands of years before Sri Nityananda to the story, it said the Pandava's were excited in Ekachakra from the Mahabharata War which if you really know your subject, you can calculate using Jyotish the eyes of the Veda's.
Date of the Mahabharata:
http://www.archive.org/stream/dateofmahabharat00srinuoft#page/4/mode/2up
This lineage is from Nityananda of Ekachakra. Again, more will be qualified in the new Book. It has to be, I could care less about all this but it needs to be understood otherwise all these false writings will remain as truth on the internet and the real authentic origins of Baul will be deleted and screw up by outsiders or mere follower of Baul who never had a clue but wanted to ride on the coat tails of this family and lineage.
The internet has been great, it also, has been very bad in that many fakes have come out of the woodwork, great actors, cheaters who steal Baul songs and put other names on them. Cheaters who make up lineages and stories, who say it does not matter who wrote the songs. How disrespectful!
Baul has become like modern Yoga described as Asana, gymnastics, beer yoga, goat yoga, sex yoga on and on?
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2019/02/fakir-aul-sai-dervish-and-shah-are-not.html
The above Photo of Sri Nabani Das Khappa Baul is a photo taken by Rabindranath Tagore.
Nabani Das Khyapa Baul
Others follow this lineage, this lineage never ever followed anybody.
This is the ONE & ONLY Lineage of Baul.
Lineage was never ever used except by Babu Kishan now others are making up lineages and copy and past what Babu does, where he goes, what he writes but they take off his name and add their own, and make up stories and lineages?? He will be speaking out in a big way shortly.
#CulturalMisappropriation
New Book coming soon, that will qualify and tell the authentic story of Baul.
This pioneering lineage, this family, how would you feel if someone took your families legacy and history and claimed it as their own!
'The Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity'
Note: this statement was designated by the UN because some Bangladeshi High official culturally appropriate Baul made it about being Muslim and coming from Bangladesh, completely twisting Baul, aquiring some $9 million to preserve Baul ?and he is nowhere to be found? It is things like this that have made Baul extinct because without the 'Essence of Baul' there is no Baul, Baul became an easy target for many reason all to be explained in the upcoming book on the History of Baul.
No one in this world knew about Baul if this family did not bring Baul to India and the World.
Vaishnava Bauls of Birbhum the oldest living lineage of Bauls, An Oral Sanskrit Tradition.
Note* One should understand the oral in the case of the Vaishnava Bauls means Sanskrit, most of the new Bauls do not have any relationship to Sanskrit. Sanskrit was the Baul's indigenous language in the oral tradition.
“That is why, brother, I became a madcap Baul. No master I obey, nor injunctions, canons or custom. Now no men-made distinctions have any hold on me, and I revel only in the gladness of my own welling love. In love there's no separation, but commingling always. So I rejoice in song and dance with each and all."
Rabindra Nath Tagore, The Hibbert Lecture, Oxford, 1930
"the above quote by Rabindranath Tagore is re-quoted from Babukishan's research and first book in 1980's, "Banglar Baul" under the name Krishnendu Das. ©
Rabindranath Tagore's one and only Baul Guru was Nabani Das Khyappa Baul and the only Baul Tagore associated with.
Rabindranath Tagore became a Baul when the legendary Sri Nabani (Gosia) Das Khyappa Baul gave Tagore the name Ravi (Robi) Baul and in return Tagore gave Nabani (Noboni) the name Khyappa Baul and named him 'Mirror of the Sky'. Rabindranath Tagore was initiated into Baul by Nabani Das Khyappa Baul. To this very day villagers in Birbhum remember a legendary Tantric Vaishnav Baul Saint Avadhut named Nabani Das Khyappa Baul.
Khyappa or sometimes spelled Kheppa and (Kheppi for women) means sat chit ananda (eternal conscious and blissful), highly mystical, fully awake, aware, divine ecstatic love, wild, free bird, blissful, divine consciousness, magical, mysterious, out of body connected to the divine at a very high level, khyappa is not something that can be faked. It is not a name for everybody it was a name designated for a Avadhut, however, today everybody is calling themselves khyappa as many are calling themselves ‘Baul’ and ‘Baul Guru’.
Rabindranath Tagore the great Bengali Noble prize winner for literature and the writer of the Indian, Bangladeshi, and Sri Lankan national anthems, loved Nabani and Nabani is the only Baul who inspired and associated with Tagore, Nabani was Tagores Baul Guru. The Pous Mela in Shantiniketan was created by Rabindranath Tagore in honour of Nabani Das Baul to bring together intellectuals, poets, and creative artists from around the world.
To the untrained eye and ear wandering and singing a song does not make one a Baul. Rabindranath honoured Nabani because he was an ecstatic mystic full of wisdom, he admired his poetry, his tune and his depth in sadhana as a Tantric Yogi and Baul Avadhut. Rabindranath respected Nabani's ancient lineage and its richness, authentic cultural significance and tradition of wisdom, along with the energetic live wire shaktified pure ecstatic love that Nabani embodied. Tagore also, gave land and a special place for Nabani Das Khyappa Baul to sit and be at Tagores own Vishva Bharti University, they spent much time together and it should be noted that all of the old pictures and the ones at The Royal British Museum in London of Nabani were pictures taken by Tagore himself.
Tagore appointed Nabani Das Baul as a Professor of Baul music and dance at the Tagore Vishva Bharti University in Shantiniketan. Nabani is the first and last Baul to teach at Vishva Bharti University. One of Nabani's students was Indira Gandhi, her father Jawaharlal Nehru had the greatest respect for Nabani. The Indian Independence movement was in full swing. Nehru appointed Nabani a state singer, where Nabani along with Nehru and his contingent traveled all over India, playing for people, sharing the magic of Baul and Nehru's political messages.
Like his grandfather, KD Babukishan also traveled with his parents around India as state singers for Indira Gandhi, with whom Babu's mother was best friends until Indira Gandhi's assassination. Babukishan recalls going to Delhi for Indira Gandhi's state funeral with the Gandhi family. There were millions of people it was an epic historical event the fall out from her death or I should say her murder was catastrophic.
This family of Vaishnava Baul along with Babu Kishana were state singers for Rajiv Gandhi until Rajiv Gandhi's death. Often times after a day of work Babu would sit with Rajiv Gandhi and unwind after their travels through out India. Babukishan has traveled India many times with different people including his Grandpa Nabani Das Khyappa Baul, Sitaram Das Omkarnath, his father, his mentor a 'Supreme Court judge Master Jyotishi' who predicted Babu would meet me also he predicted that Sri Purnab Mukerjee President of India would rule India.
Purnab Mukerjee and Babu's family were very close as his mom Manju and Pranab's wife were relatives and best friends, the late Mrs Mukerjee was Babu's aunt whom he called Gita Auntie. I met Mrs Mukerjee at the Mukerjee bhavan in Delhi in 2007 she was very sweet.
This is the ONE & ONLY Lineage of Baul.
Lineage was never ever used except by Babu Kishan now others are making up lineages and copy and past what Babu does, where he goes, what he writes but they take off his name and add their own, and make up stories and lineages?? He will be speaking out in a big way shortly.
#CulturalMisappropriation
New Book coming soon, that will qualify and tell the authentic story of Baul.
This pioneering lineage, this family, how would you feel if someone took your families legacy and history and claimed it as their own!
'The Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity'
Note: this statement was designated by the UN because some Bangladeshi High official culturally appropriate Baul made it about being Muslim and coming from Bangladesh, completely twisting Baul, aquiring some $9 million to preserve Baul ?and he is nowhere to be found? It is things like this that have made Baul extinct because without the 'Essence of Baul' there is no Baul, Baul became an easy target for many reason all to be explained in the upcoming book on the History of Baul.
No one in this world knew about Baul if this family did not bring Baul to India and the World.
Vaishnava Bauls of Birbhum the oldest living lineage of Bauls, An Oral Sanskrit Tradition.
Note* One should understand the oral in the case of the Vaishnava Bauls means Sanskrit, most of the new Bauls do not have any relationship to Sanskrit. Sanskrit was the Baul's indigenous language in the oral tradition.
“That is why, brother, I became a madcap Baul. No master I obey, nor injunctions, canons or custom. Now no men-made distinctions have any hold on me, and I revel only in the gladness of my own welling love. In love there's no separation, but commingling always. So I rejoice in song and dance with each and all."
Rabindra Nath Tagore, The Hibbert Lecture, Oxford, 1930
"the above quote by Rabindranath Tagore is re-quoted from Babukishan's research and first book in 1980's, "Banglar Baul" under the name Krishnendu Das. ©
Rabindranath Tagore's one and only Baul Guru was Nabani Das Khyappa Baul and the only Baul Tagore associated with.
Rabindranath Tagore became a Baul when the legendary Sri Nabani (Gosia) Das Khyappa Baul gave Tagore the name Ravi (Robi) Baul and in return Tagore gave Nabani (Noboni) the name Khyappa Baul and named him 'Mirror of the Sky'. Rabindranath Tagore was initiated into Baul by Nabani Das Khyappa Baul. To this very day villagers in Birbhum remember a legendary Tantric Vaishnav Baul Saint Avadhut named Nabani Das Khyappa Baul.
Khyappa or sometimes spelled Kheppa and (Kheppi for women) means sat chit ananda (eternal conscious and blissful), highly mystical, fully awake, aware, divine ecstatic love, wild, free bird, blissful, divine consciousness, magical, mysterious, out of body connected to the divine at a very high level, khyappa is not something that can be faked. It is not a name for everybody it was a name designated for a Avadhut, however, today everybody is calling themselves khyappa as many are calling themselves ‘Baul’ and ‘Baul Guru’.
Rabindranath Tagore the great Bengali Noble prize winner for literature and the writer of the Indian, Bangladeshi, and Sri Lankan national anthems, loved Nabani and Nabani is the only Baul who inspired and associated with Tagore, Nabani was Tagores Baul Guru. The Pous Mela in Shantiniketan was created by Rabindranath Tagore in honour of Nabani Das Baul to bring together intellectuals, poets, and creative artists from around the world.
To the untrained eye and ear wandering and singing a song does not make one a Baul. Rabindranath honoured Nabani because he was an ecstatic mystic full of wisdom, he admired his poetry, his tune and his depth in sadhana as a Tantric Yogi and Baul Avadhut. Rabindranath respected Nabani's ancient lineage and its richness, authentic cultural significance and tradition of wisdom, along with the energetic live wire shaktified pure ecstatic love that Nabani embodied. Tagore also, gave land and a special place for Nabani Das Khyappa Baul to sit and be at Tagores own Vishva Bharti University, they spent much time together and it should be noted that all of the old pictures and the ones at The Royal British Museum in London of Nabani were pictures taken by Tagore himself.
Tagore appointed Nabani Das Baul as a Professor of Baul music and dance at the Tagore Vishva Bharti University in Shantiniketan. Nabani is the first and last Baul to teach at Vishva Bharti University. One of Nabani's students was Indira Gandhi, her father Jawaharlal Nehru had the greatest respect for Nabani. The Indian Independence movement was in full swing. Nehru appointed Nabani a state singer, where Nabani along with Nehru and his contingent traveled all over India, playing for people, sharing the magic of Baul and Nehru's political messages.
Like his grandfather, KD Babukishan also traveled with his parents around India as state singers for Indira Gandhi, with whom Babu's mother was best friends until Indira Gandhi's assassination. Babukishan recalls going to Delhi for Indira Gandhi's state funeral with the Gandhi family. There were millions of people it was an epic historical event the fall out from her death or I should say her murder was catastrophic.
This family of Vaishnava Baul along with Babu Kishana were state singers for Rajiv Gandhi until Rajiv Gandhi's death. Often times after a day of work Babu would sit with Rajiv Gandhi and unwind after their travels through out India. Babukishan has traveled India many times with different people including his Grandpa Nabani Das Khyappa Baul, Sitaram Das Omkarnath, his father, his mentor a 'Supreme Court judge Master Jyotishi' who predicted Babu would meet me also he predicted that Sri Purnab Mukerjee President of India would rule India.
Purnab Mukerjee and Babu's family were very close as his mom Manju and Pranab's wife were relatives and best friends, the late Mrs Mukerjee was Babu's aunt whom he called Gita Auntie. I met Mrs Mukerjee at the Mukerjee bhavan in Delhi in 2007 she was very sweet.
Nabani Das Khepa Baul painting by Nandalal Roy who was also, a friend of Nabani Das Baul's
This above Statue was commissioned by Rabindranath Tagore. The sculpture was created by Ram Kinkar Baig. This sculpture is standing at Vishva Bharti University in Shantiniketan Birbhum Bengal @ Tagore's University.
Sculpture of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul the Baul who initiated Tagore into Baul giving him the name Robi Baul.
Sculpture of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul the Baul who initiated Tagore into Baul giving him the name Robi Baul.
Manju Dasi (Purna Das Baul's wife)
The Only Legendary Baul Women who brought Baul to the World. Manju Dasi is the only Baul women to sing and teach Baul Music on the most prestigious Concert Halls and stages around the world including, The Royal Albert Hall in London England in 1986. Woodstock, New York, California, Carnegie Hall in New York. Manju Das had her voice recorded on music labels such EMI, Polydor and others. She is a Baul Women leader who was best friends of Indira Gandhi.
She played on the largest stages in India hundreds of times. All over Europe, Asia and Australia. She was the most successful Baul Women ever, no one can ever compare to her talent and ability as a Baul Women. This lineage of Baul is the only Parampara Baul Tradition.
Manju attended and sang at the fundraiser for Bangladesh produced by the Beatles and Rolling Stones for years, 1971, 1972 and 1978 at Hyde Park and was a guest of Mick Jagger at his home in Nice France while her husband recorded Jai Bangla at Jagger's home.
If not for Manju Dasi no one would know what Baul is,
she is the true and only pioneer Baul women ever.
The Only Legendary Baul Women who brought Baul to the World. Manju Dasi is the only Baul women to sing and teach Baul Music on the most prestigious Concert Halls and stages around the world including, The Royal Albert Hall in London England in 1986. Woodstock, New York, California, Carnegie Hall in New York. Manju Das had her voice recorded on music labels such EMI, Polydor and others. She is a Baul Women leader who was best friends of Indira Gandhi.
She played on the largest stages in India hundreds of times. All over Europe, Asia and Australia. She was the most successful Baul Women ever, no one can ever compare to her talent and ability as a Baul Women. This lineage of Baul is the only Parampara Baul Tradition.
Manju attended and sang at the fundraiser for Bangladesh produced by the Beatles and Rolling Stones for years, 1971, 1972 and 1978 at Hyde Park and was a guest of Mick Jagger at his home in Nice France while her husband recorded Jai Bangla at Jagger's home.
If not for Manju Dasi no one would know what Baul is,
she is the true and only pioneer Baul women ever.
Mystical Bards, Guru's, Pandits, Acharya's who are simply called Baul. Soul singers from the Soul and Soil of Birbhum Bengal.
Guru Shishya Parampara Sampradaya Ancient Mystical Lineage. Bauls are Tantrics, Indian musicians who know the Tantra of Sound, Mystical Bards, Guru's, Pandits, Acharya's who are simply called Baul. There are some Bauls who are not from this lineage or a lineage period and it is very interesting how they are changing the face of an ancient living lineage that they do not even understand. Real Bauls are mysterious you will never figure them out all one can do is taste their rasa it is impossible to catch a Baul they are here one minute and gone the next, they do not want to be seen and certainly do not want to collect devotee's but there is something to learn from them if one is patient. It is a contradictory path of opposites that are meant to confuse as you must be a sincere student it is not meant for the spiritual materialist. One must have one foot in the heavens and one foot firmly on the earth.
Sri Nityananda of Ekachakra Birbhum Bengal - Bhakti Yoga
Vaishnava Bauls the original indigenous Hare Krishna Hari Ram singers and dancers.
Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, was wise enough to know what the scholar Sri Chaitanya had figured out 500 years before, that Bauls were able to draw people together through their energetic shakti and ecstatic charismatic chanting, singing and dancing. Dry scholarship and talking doesn't necessarily awaken people to a new movement. Sri Nitanyanda of Ekchakra Birbhum was a Vaishnava Baul and the ancestor of this lineage, he was elder to Sri Chaitanya. It was Nitanyanada who taught his Baul tradtion of kirtan, singing and dancing to Sri Chaitanya.
Sri Chaityana started his Hari Krishna movement based on the ecstatic 'Hari Krishna Hari Ram' singing and dancing of the Vaishnava Baul of Birbhum. The Bauls would start with the Hari Krishna chant early in the mornings as a wakeup call announcing their presence to the villagers of Bengal, inviting them to listen and learn about spiritual life.
Lineage of KIRTAN
Authentic Baul is a rare, esctatic, super charged high speed internet super duper highway to ecstatic union, direct blissful Yoga and sweet heart-opening devotional singing and Baul Kirtan is full of ecstatic energy that turns even the hardest of hearts to honey, bringing the rasa of ananda (bliss) alive. There is layer upon layer of the heart Bauls awakens layers that one never thought existed, it is magical. Baul awakens a memory deep within the heart you do not have to understand but you must feel.
Baul is a secret mystical Tantric esoteric super charged path.
Baul is a secret esoteric path a Baul will never tell you anything directly you must will learn through the practice of listening deeply. If you are fortunate to be with Baul over a lifetime if one is lucky you may grasp a drop, all the rest is just mere speculation. You will be tested every step of the way on this magical journey, the path is not straight it is crooked to prevent the people who are not prepared. Today everybody wants everything right here and now that is not the path of Baul because it is a super advanced path a way to easily reach God/dess but as we know nothing is really easy. It is not a beginners path, however, one can feel the energy and awaken quickly if the person calling themselves a Baul is actually a Baul.
Baul is the path of everything in the universe as above, so below, the path of poetry, all Bauls produce some kind of poetry, they are poetic storytellers, this is how they distill their teachings in simple poetic songs that hit the heart of everything the universe, there is nothing that is excluded.
Bauls play a one stringed trance inducing instrument called an ‘ektara’ also called the ‘Gopi Chand’ or ‘Gopi Yantra’ which is the Bauls symbol of peace and unity for all. A Baul plays a variety of instruments including a rare one or two stringed instrument called a ‘Gubgubi’ which Nabnai himself named the Ananada Lahari meaning ‘waves of bliss’. Baul is a Guru Shishya Parampara Sampradaya, they are sadhu's and belong to sadhu sangha which are called Akaras. There used to be 22 such sanghas, now there are only 2, they are almost extinct.
There is a lot of misinformation about the Bauls today, misrepresentations abound among a new generation of Baul singers, scholars, writers, documentary film makers, information found on wikipedia, Gurus from other sects including Osho who wrote many books on the Bauls and was deeply inspired by Nabani Das Khyappa Baul. All of them have completely missed the point of who these sweet devotional people are. They repeat the same thing over and over and it is not accurate. Many fakes are changing this beautiful tradition, they dress the part, singing out of tune trying to copy what can not be copied. Baul is only achieved through sadhana. The fake Bauls say they are sadhakas to attract students, some say they are sexual tantrics as sex always sells. This has gone on for a long time. Unaware foreigners attracted by sexual tantra of the west, and Indians attracted by the dream of sexual freedom, flock to Shantineketan. Yet the real Bauls are now almost extinct, and those that still remain, live marginalized.
Bauls have been described as mad, Sai, Shah, Fakir, Dervish, Aula, Muslim, afflicted by the wind, illiterate, beggars and folk singers, yet they are none of the above. First of all Bauls were never beggars for anything but God/dess. A Baul would received Dakshina from the villagers for their wisdom and teachings. Bauls were farmers. They have survived for thousands and thousands of years, it is amazing that they survived through the British imposed famines in Bengal. which is a story These stories have started to be told regarding the 1940 second world war time of mass starvation's that occurred during the British imposed diversion of food crops to Europe where millions of Bengal's perished.
Guru Shishya Parampara Sampradaya Ancient Mystical Lineage. Bauls are Tantrics, Indian musicians who know the Tantra of Sound, Mystical Bards, Guru's, Pandits, Acharya's who are simply called Baul. There are some Bauls who are not from this lineage or a lineage period and it is very interesting how they are changing the face of an ancient living lineage that they do not even understand. Real Bauls are mysterious you will never figure them out all one can do is taste their rasa it is impossible to catch a Baul they are here one minute and gone the next, they do not want to be seen and certainly do not want to collect devotee's but there is something to learn from them if one is patient. It is a contradictory path of opposites that are meant to confuse as you must be a sincere student it is not meant for the spiritual materialist. One must have one foot in the heavens and one foot firmly on the earth.
Sri Nityananda of Ekachakra Birbhum Bengal - Bhakti Yoga
Vaishnava Bauls the original indigenous Hare Krishna Hari Ram singers and dancers.
Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, was wise enough to know what the scholar Sri Chaitanya had figured out 500 years before, that Bauls were able to draw people together through their energetic shakti and ecstatic charismatic chanting, singing and dancing. Dry scholarship and talking doesn't necessarily awaken people to a new movement. Sri Nitanyanda of Ekchakra Birbhum was a Vaishnava Baul and the ancestor of this lineage, he was elder to Sri Chaitanya. It was Nitanyanada who taught his Baul tradtion of kirtan, singing and dancing to Sri Chaitanya.
Sri Chaityana started his Hari Krishna movement based on the ecstatic 'Hari Krishna Hari Ram' singing and dancing of the Vaishnava Baul of Birbhum. The Bauls would start with the Hari Krishna chant early in the mornings as a wakeup call announcing their presence to the villagers of Bengal, inviting them to listen and learn about spiritual life.
Lineage of KIRTAN
Authentic Baul is a rare, esctatic, super charged high speed internet super duper highway to ecstatic union, direct blissful Yoga and sweet heart-opening devotional singing and Baul Kirtan is full of ecstatic energy that turns even the hardest of hearts to honey, bringing the rasa of ananda (bliss) alive. There is layer upon layer of the heart Bauls awakens layers that one never thought existed, it is magical. Baul awakens a memory deep within the heart you do not have to understand but you must feel.
Baul is a secret mystical Tantric esoteric super charged path.
Baul is a secret esoteric path a Baul will never tell you anything directly you must will learn through the practice of listening deeply. If you are fortunate to be with Baul over a lifetime if one is lucky you may grasp a drop, all the rest is just mere speculation. You will be tested every step of the way on this magical journey, the path is not straight it is crooked to prevent the people who are not prepared. Today everybody wants everything right here and now that is not the path of Baul because it is a super advanced path a way to easily reach God/dess but as we know nothing is really easy. It is not a beginners path, however, one can feel the energy and awaken quickly if the person calling themselves a Baul is actually a Baul.
- The path of Love
- The path of poetry, deep soul music, trance dance and sadhana
- The path of ecstatic union
- The path of everything as above so below
- The path of humanity
- The mysterious mystical inner path
- The path of GRACE and Divine Love
- The path of the Avadhut
- The Mystic Tantric Path
- The path of higher deep Yoga. The path beyond the Path
- The bliss permeated Path
- The path of Soul mates
- The path of the Divine Feminine
- The path of Shakti Sadhana
Baul is the path of everything in the universe as above, so below, the path of poetry, all Bauls produce some kind of poetry, they are poetic storytellers, this is how they distill their teachings in simple poetic songs that hit the heart of everything the universe, there is nothing that is excluded.
Bauls play a one stringed trance inducing instrument called an ‘ektara’ also called the ‘Gopi Chand’ or ‘Gopi Yantra’ which is the Bauls symbol of peace and unity for all. A Baul plays a variety of instruments including a rare one or two stringed instrument called a ‘Gubgubi’ which Nabnai himself named the Ananada Lahari meaning ‘waves of bliss’. Baul is a Guru Shishya Parampara Sampradaya, they are sadhu's and belong to sadhu sangha which are called Akaras. There used to be 22 such sanghas, now there are only 2, they are almost extinct.
There is a lot of misinformation about the Bauls today, misrepresentations abound among a new generation of Baul singers, scholars, writers, documentary film makers, information found on wikipedia, Gurus from other sects including Osho who wrote many books on the Bauls and was deeply inspired by Nabani Das Khyappa Baul. All of them have completely missed the point of who these sweet devotional people are. They repeat the same thing over and over and it is not accurate. Many fakes are changing this beautiful tradition, they dress the part, singing out of tune trying to copy what can not be copied. Baul is only achieved through sadhana. The fake Bauls say they are sadhakas to attract students, some say they are sexual tantrics as sex always sells. This has gone on for a long time. Unaware foreigners attracted by sexual tantra of the west, and Indians attracted by the dream of sexual freedom, flock to Shantineketan. Yet the real Bauls are now almost extinct, and those that still remain, live marginalized.
Bauls have been described as mad, Sai, Shah, Fakir, Dervish, Aula, Muslim, afflicted by the wind, illiterate, beggars and folk singers, yet they are none of the above. First of all Bauls were never beggars for anything but God/dess. A Baul would received Dakshina from the villagers for their wisdom and teachings. Bauls were farmers. They have survived for thousands and thousands of years, it is amazing that they survived through the British imposed famines in Bengal. which is a story These stories have started to be told regarding the 1940 second world war time of mass starvation's that occurred during the British imposed diversion of food crops to Europe where millions of Bengal's perished.
All the below Albums -
Baul albums are Babu Kishan Music, all Composed, Recorded, Arranged, and Promoted him. Some are his Lyrics too.
by Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul .
Babu Kishan - is a born Music Composer and a qualified by Indian Cinema Music Producer.
He was awarded the youngest Music Composer for his Music Composition in 1971 at the tender age of 9 almost 10.
Baul albums are Babu Kishan Music, all Composed, Recorded, Arranged, and Promoted him. Some are his Lyrics too.
by Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul .
Babu Kishan - is a born Music Composer and a qualified by Indian Cinema Music Producer.
He was awarded the youngest Music Composer for his Music Composition in 1971 at the tender age of 9 almost 10.
Ablum's Babu Kishan's as Krishnendu Das Produced, Composed Music, Arranged and Marketed.
He was the youngest Music Composer of in Bengali in the 1970's and 1980's.
Some were composed when he was in his teen years.
All Below Produced and Music &
some Lyrics
by Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das
He was the youngest Music Composer of in Bengali in the 1970's and 1980's.
Some were composed when he was in his teen years.
All Below Produced and Music &
some Lyrics
by Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das
Remembering Lila Roy, Rabindranath Tagore's English Translator and my English Editor of the English book I wrote on My Lineage, The Bauls of Bengal and the only Western person who was a real Master of Bengali and understood the Soul and Soil of Bengal, she was a Legend and I do not want the world to forget her.
At #VigyanBhavan, #NewDelhi, attending #International #Symposium of #WorldPhilosopy 80’s: #KrishnenduDas aka #MusicLegend #BabuKishan with #RabindranathTagore’s #English #Translator #legenday #LilaRoy. aka #AliceVirginia Orndorff in El Paso, #Texas, in 1910, a daughter of #Americanpioneers, descending from German immigrants in the 18th century and from English immigrants a century earlier.
Her teen years in Los Angeles, where she attended school and college, and then went to New York to study piano. While on a tour of Europe, she became interested in Indian music and was encouraged to explore it for herself by a friend in London.
She arrived in Calcutta in the summer of 1930 and met Annada Sankar for the first time in the provincial town of Berhampore where he had just begun his career. Lila and Annada Sankar were married in October of that year in Ranchi, and Alice Virginia began life in India as “Lila” (at that time, Annada Sankar sometimes wrote under the pen name of “Lilamoy”). Of interest to Santiniketan buffs, the writer Pramatha Chaudhuri and his wife Indira Devi Chaudhurani were present at the wedding.
She had seen and experienced the real and original #Baulessenses from #BaulSaint #NabaniDasKhyapaBaul the only #RabindranathTagore’s inspiration and little young #PurnaDasBaul and very end #Experienced with the #ModernBaulLeader , #Academicpersonality, #author #MuiscLegend and #filmmaker #young #BabuKishan aka #KrishnenduDas... great historical #BaulHistory with 3 generations all together in one life.
She used to say on and on, that meeting with Nabani Das Khyapa Baul was a #mysticalexperiene which never found from anyone ever, and why he was #RabindranathTagore’s most precious buddy and #Baulinspiration. She also said #Guru Baul Saint Nabani Das Khyapa Baul did not compare with any one she had ever met, he was just the one and only symbol of #BaulsofBengal!!
She was the first who bought 100 copies of my first book to make me feel great👍 I was the first person from the lineage to actual write a book about my oldest Baul Lineage, she was my editor. She was my well wisher.
At #VigyanBhavan, #NewDelhi, attending #International #Symposium of #WorldPhilosopy 80’s: #KrishnenduDas aka #MusicLegend #BabuKishan with #RabindranathTagore’s #English #Translator #legenday #LilaRoy. aka #AliceVirginia Orndorff in El Paso, #Texas, in 1910, a daughter of #Americanpioneers, descending from German immigrants in the 18th century and from English immigrants a century earlier.
Her teen years in Los Angeles, where she attended school and college, and then went to New York to study piano. While on a tour of Europe, she became interested in Indian music and was encouraged to explore it for herself by a friend in London.
She arrived in Calcutta in the summer of 1930 and met Annada Sankar for the first time in the provincial town of Berhampore where he had just begun his career. Lila and Annada Sankar were married in October of that year in Ranchi, and Alice Virginia began life in India as “Lila” (at that time, Annada Sankar sometimes wrote under the pen name of “Lilamoy”). Of interest to Santiniketan buffs, the writer Pramatha Chaudhuri and his wife Indira Devi Chaudhurani were present at the wedding.
She had seen and experienced the real and original #Baulessenses from #BaulSaint #NabaniDasKhyapaBaul the only #RabindranathTagore’s inspiration and little young #PurnaDasBaul and very end #Experienced with the #ModernBaulLeader , #Academicpersonality, #author #MuiscLegend and #filmmaker #young #BabuKishan aka #KrishnenduDas... great historical #BaulHistory with 3 generations all together in one life.
She used to say on and on, that meeting with Nabani Das Khyapa Baul was a #mysticalexperiene which never found from anyone ever, and why he was #RabindranathTagore’s most precious buddy and #Baulinspiration. She also said #Guru Baul Saint Nabani Das Khyapa Baul did not compare with any one she had ever met, he was just the one and only symbol of #BaulsofBengal!!
She was the first who bought 100 copies of my first book to make me feel great👍 I was the first person from the lineage to actual write a book about my oldest Baul Lineage, she was my editor. She was my well wisher.
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