Pioneers of Bauls, the first Bauls to go oversea's, and the last Great original Baul of Bengal Sri Nabani Das Khappa Baul.. Reclaiming The Bauls of Bengal!..

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 Reclaiming the Bauls of Bengal ! The title of this lineage only, it wasy the name of Purna Das Bauls group when they first came to the West in 1967, travelled across USA and stayed at Bob Dylan and The Bands hom in Woodstock NY jamming with them for over a month. You can read the whole story on a recent blogpost called Bauls in New York 

https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2026/09/baul-and-new-york-city-al-aronowitz-and.html

 

This was written way back in 2011 and now is 2022, re-editing is taking place. 

There is a lot of repeat in this article.

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Only a Baul, a true lineage Baul knows who or what a Baul is? Only a Baul knows where they come from. The code is stored in the Baul songs. the songs are seeds of higher philosophy. What appears or is told is Baul today is not Baul, they are cosplayer Bauls who have cultural mis-appropriated indigenous Baul. They are social media influencers who are not Baul, however, are using Baul to attain international travel, awards, and fincial fundraising they are decpetive and they know that most people in India and the West do not know nor can understand what they sing. 

 

They are usually singing something else or the songs stolen from this lineage, the dance and instruments all come from this lineage, they shadow footprint this lineage around the world in a desparate effort in remaking to replace. Openly claiming they are the new or next Purna Das Baul who is in his 90s and can never be replaced, he is one of the most highly awarded singers and a Baul singer at that, the first Baul singer and the last Baul singer. Baul is extinct, people ask me all the time is that a real Baul, no absolutely Not they are fakes. No their Guru is not a Baul Guru and they are 100% not for any lineage, they are not even from Birbhum W Bengal, you might ask how can they be, well they are cheaters and collect people and donations they are dishonest.

Scholars can only speculate, writers can only speculate.. and new Baul singers can only speculate Baul is from an oral living lineage and these Bauls know who they are!

The Bauls (Vayu Tula) Vaishnava Sahajiya Bauls of Birbhum are oral Sanskrit-ists, vernacular Birbhum Bengali speaking, and Braja Bhasha, Vaishnava poets, philosophers, based on Indian Philosophy with the Rasa Lila Dancers, they are not wandering minstrels or nomads.. They are not Buddhist or Muslim, Auls, Sai, Fakir or dervish. The do not speak Urdu or Pali when the Buddhists were in trouble the Bauls protected them, when the  Sufi  flowed into Bengal and the Islamist attacked them the Bauls protected and disguised them. Bauls can not be Buddhist because they believe in the atma which one of their main tattva's Atma Tattva and they believe in the Param- Atma in that they are Krishna and Dattatreya Sahaja.

Only an indigenous Baul can self-dtermine who is Baul as per the United Nations rights of indigenous people. Not a fake Baul, not an academic.

 

 Not Buddhist Sahaja. Dattatreya Sahaja Samadhi is the olders Sahaja way before Buddhism. Bauls do not follow other, others may follow them but they do not follow Buddha or Islam. Baul roots are in Birbhum West Bengal India, not in Bangaldesh or East Bengal or East Pakistan, not in Turkey as a cosplayer Baul has said? Not in Uzbekistan as another cosplayer has speculated and not in Persia as the Bangladeshi official used to scam the United Nation of over 9 million dollars?

The British did not like indigenous Indian people, or Indian people for that matter and saw them as the lowest life forms. they thought all Indian people were uneducated and low, many Bengali's took on the same attitude, it was either survive and become like the British or be treated as one of these uneducated degraded beggars. They labelled Bauls and other sects as illiterate, the Baul are Gosia, the Vaishnava reformer of Gaudiya Math in the last 1800s were even nastier. They burned their manuscipts, this is a long story and part of the Baul reclamation written into the 3 book Baul historical autobiography of Baul to be release in 2027.

Bauls most certainly were not beggars, they were like spiritual teacher and Gurus, healer and social workers. Bauls were the newspaper before there was a newspaper, their songs are how to be a yogi, how to live an enlightened lifestyle.. how to learn from nature, they were given Dakshina for their songs. Then they would feed everybody with the food offered to them, their job was always working for the villagers in Seva and as teachers Baul Gurus never Preachers.

These seed songs of higher Indian Philosophy were passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years in sanskrit and they sang in Bengali to the people of the village in the same way Tulsi Das translated the Hanuman Chalisa in the language people could understand. Babu Kishan's first recorded Hanuman Chalisa in the early 1980s singing by Hari Om Sharan is the most listened to deveotional song in the history of India, played at all temples with over 3 billion or more listens.

Some are creating archives trying to preserve Baul in the British mode in the model of the Western Scholar or interviewing new Baul singers who are randoms, they are not Baul. This frustrated Krishnendu Das who have preserved Baul for over 60 years, now Sally Grossman has passed away and someone wants Babu Kishan to buy the archive, no way he never agreed with it and told Sally that, he knew her longer than anybody he talked to her all the time both in India and in USA. May she rest in peace, all the Bauls thought they could gain something from her, while she said to Babu - why do you delete me from your facebook while all these other people I don't know are climbing all over me?

The new Baul singers  fake Baul who are shortening songs or singing folk songs, Baul songs are not folk songs. Just because Babu Kishan is a Music Composer for the best folk singer in India does not mean Baul has anything to do with Folk Music, Babu Kishan categorized all the Folk Music of India, he knows what is a Baul song because he recorded all the Baul songs for his father Purna Das Baul and for many top Folk Singers that is what he is an expert at and was his career, it has nothing to do with Baul it is a first and last in Baul history. There is a huge lack of basic understanding of the basics of what a Baul is or who the real Bauls are and who are Fake Bauls basically what you see today even if they have huge social media likes they are fake using everything and everywhere this lineage has gone as a first and last regarding Baul.

It is through my extensive research I have come to understand who the real psuedo Vaishnava Asampradaya's are and it most certainly is not the Bauls, the Bauls have been an innocent pawn of this group since day one. It is this group who has become very degraded over the past 30 years using the Baul names such as  Das and Dasi

Ambitous preachers who called the Bauls degraded and other names due to their misunderstanding on who the Bauls are and on the say so of a few men. 

Baul is used by everybody, I do not really understand why but all these groups and people think it is ok to make Baul what they want or say nobody really knows what Baul is??

Sri Nabani Das Khyappa Baul, Babukishan's Grandfather was a Lineage Vaishnava Sahajiya Tantric Baul of Birbhum WBengal Indian where Nabani Das Khyapa Baul is the last Baul Guru and the last Baul Avadhut he passed in 1969, Babu Kishan knows he was with him, he lived it. Nabani Das Khyapa Baul is the only Baul initiated by Bama Kepa at Tarapith and others there. There are no more Baul Avadhuts only fake Bauls playing pretend using Nabani Das Khyapa Baul lived life his first and lasts, same with Purna Das Baul he is a first and last Baul singer, a legendary highly awarded Baul singer. Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan) is a first and last regarding Baul and the Ramakrishna Mission where he was a monk for 12 years he is the only Baul. He is the only Baul to officaily be a Music Composer for 40 years in Indian Cinema with a huge body of work, all the first of last of Baul have been created and lived by KD Babu Kishan, I want the fakes to cease and dessist on stealing his life in a remake of his life in a fake cosplay or shadow footprinting of his work, his life.

Nabani Das Baul was a  Baul Avadhuta the last Baul Avadhut, he walked in the footpath of his ancient ancestors. The lineage is that of the Great Vaishnava Saint, Sri Nityananda of Ekkchaka West Bengal who was Sri Chaitanya's best friend.  

Nityananda  of Ekachakra Birbhum West Bengal was a Vaishnava Baul Avadhut, he was the elder Baul Guru to Sri Chaitanya was a scholar. Nityananda taught Sri Chaitanya the Baul way of Life the Hare Krishna Mahamantra chanting in the early morning as the Bauls entered the villages as a wake up call we are here, we are here, they did not go door to door as the fake Bauls have been teaching. The fake Bauls only became Vaishnava Baul when they read the writing here, they became full face painted, first they were Buddhist Bauls, then Vaishnava Baul now they are Shakti Bauls it is obsence and insane that no one can discern who these free-loaders are. The elder Nityananda the Baul Guru to Sri Chaitantya was his Guru on many fronts including in the Madhavacharya lineage as Nitai's Guru was the elder Guru of Sri Chaitanya's Guru, if people knew the system they would know that makes Nitai a Guru of Sri Chanitanya. Anyhow, more proof and more on this topic in the Reclamation in Volume 1 of Historical Autobiography of Baul. I say copyright but to the nasty fake Bauls it does not matter, they copy everything anyhow, that is why we are holding bakc on all details.

These Bauls are from an oral living lineage ancestral paramapara of more than 13 years Why is there so much distortion, again it is the new age reformers with big printing presses who chose to write against the Bauls perpetuating the British othodox view against Bengali people.

Perhaps it is because India had been conquered many times, he is the one who coined the term afflicted by the wind, Bauls are not afflicted by the wind and they are not a wind disease from Ayurveda called Vatula, they are Vayu Tula. Do you know who the wind Deva is Vayu the father of Hanuman and do you know what Tula mean. It is insane how people who represent Baul have not got a clue.

Baul has nothing to do with the hodge podge the PHD's wrote about,  they recieved their Phd's taking all the bits and pieces of what they thought was Baul.giving a few rupees to the poor Bauls. Do you really think Bauls will give away easily their whole lineage sadhana. 

You can not buy Baul most of these phd's thought they could but they never gave anything back, just lecturing around the world as if they are the authority. They perhaps thought they were doing the right thing but this has led to so much distortion by ignorance and the destruction of a indegenous people of India.

Nabani Das Khyapa Baul was the only Baul Guru of Rabindranath Tagore.

They were great friends, Rabindranath built Nabani a place to do his sadhana on his land, he made a statue of Nabani Das, he took pictures of him that you can see at the Royal British Museum in London. There was a long history between the two, and many stories to be told. Rabindranath Tagore knew a little bit about Bauls, and developed an interest learning more and more to finally be inititated into Baul by Babu's grandfather Nabani Das Baul. One may ask why is Nabani Das Baul's name not writen more about in Rabindranaths writings, it is because Nabani being a real Baul never wanted to be known. Rabindranath used names like khappa or  Mirror of the Sky.

Tagore used code names for Nabani Das Baul. 

There were also some other famous Bengal writers who were so connected and very close friends of Nabani Das Baul. English translations outside of Bengali are not accurate the writers made fairy sexual tales to attract people and now they are the one who are now acting as authority on Baul. 

Through this association, and over time Rabindranath became Baul. Nabani gave Rabindranath the name Ravi (Robi) Baul, and gave him a guduri (dress).

At Tagore University outside the prayer room there is a tree where Nabani Das used to sit, it it preserved there to this day. There has always been some jealousy between Purna Das Baul and his family this has been a major cause of the Baul lineage being degraded and distorted. It is too bad that a son can not preserve the history of his father... they are just now talking about Nabani Das Baul and showing his picture.. Babu has tried to preserve his lineage but has found it difficult to fight against storm of jealousy. 

Nabani Das are you a mad maker machine, you have completely changed me with your song, dance, and your smile.

Rabindranath gave Nabani the name "Kyappa Baul" before Nabani no Bauls or sadhu's used the name Khappa, Babu will say there a few Bauls today that use the name but perhaps they knew Nabani Das. Rabindranath wrote about Nabani Das.  

Rabindranath Tagore used the tune from a Nabani Das Baul song for Rabindranath's song about Nabani Das Baul.

"Amare paraye paraye khepia berai".... Rabindranath Tagore wrote this song and dedicated to Nabani Das (Khappa Baul) " 

Baul is a mystical SACRED ancient practice and there is such a lack of integrity from writers writing books, it is cut and paste writing books to make money, some can justify well I am a Phd doing research trying to preserve the ancient knowledge of Indian but at this point it is intellectual, spiritual, artistic liquidation of a culture that belongs to these people.

Babukishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul.

Sri Nabani Das Khyappa Baul, Babukishan's Grandfather was a Lineage Vaishnava Baul of Bengal. Nabani Das Baul was an Avadhuta, he walked in the footpath of his ancestors. The lineage is that of the Great Vaishnava Saint, Nityananda Mahaprabu.  Nityanada from Ekchakra West Bengal was a Baul.. These Bauls are from an oral living lineage thousands of years old.

Nityananda Baul Avadut,
Jai Nitai
 Jai Guru Nityananda was a Baul!
The Narrative of who this lineages Ancestors are has been stolen by the orthodox.

                              

Sri Nabani Das Khyappa Baul

Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan )has been preserving his oral living lineage for 60 years, he has written 3 books on Baul the last one being published by Ravi Shankar and George Harrison in 1985 now out of print but to be re-released soon.

As an authority by sadhana and scholarship Babu is a living lineage holder,  he finds it absurd when he reads writer, writing and spreading all sorts of mis- information on Baul. 

Bauls have been distorted, used and maligned for centuries. 

George Harrison (Beatles), and Allen Ginsberg (The American Beat Poet), were some of the first famous foreigners to arrive in Santinekitan, they started to learn about the Vaishnava Bauls. Both becoming great friends, and supporters of this lineage.

Allen Ginsberg went back to America, and told Albert B Grossman about Nabani Das Baul and his ecstatic, blissful, magical, mystical song, and dance from Bengal. Albert B Grossman, (Bob Dylan’s manager at the time) was searching for different kinds ethnic musicians, as The Woodstock Committee had appointed him in charge of the ledgendary first Woodstock's ethnic department. Babu learned all this from the legendary father of Rock Journalism

Al Aronowitz... (Rolling Stones, Village Voice, Washington Post and New York Times.) 

Al Aronowitz was the man who introduced Bob Dylan to the Beattles and Allen Ginsberg... 

When Alen Ginsberg shared his recording of Nabani Das Baul aslo showing his pictures to Albert Grossman, Grossman was impressed, and intrigued, he said it would be great to present have Nabani Das at Woodstock.

Ravi Shankar, was slected as Indian’s first insturmentalist to come, and Nabani Das Baul was selected a Indian vocalist. Albert B Grossman with his wife came to Kolkata in 1967 this is when they met the Bauls and Nabani Das Baul the Baul who Allen Ginsberg had been talking about for years. 

This is how the Bauls arrived in America through Albert and his wife because of Allen Ginsbergs talking about Nabani Das Baul.. The Bauls arrived first in San Francisco then after some concerts went on to Woodstock staying for months jamming with Bod Dylan and The Band. This was a shock to Purna Das Baul and contingent because it was cold and food was not what they were used to.. They were in the wilderness of Woodstock and did not speak english.

Bob Dylan had never heard of Baul before, for him this was a new kind of music.

Purna Das Baul, and Laxman Das Baul jammed with Bob Dylan and The Band, jamming for some months in Woodstock New York. 

 

Dylan respected Purna Das, but was more friendly with the younger fun loving Laxman Das Baul (Bob Marley of Baul), perhaps because they were closer in age, and Purna Das being the older more serious one.

Years later in 1985 Babukishan would travel and perform with Bob Dylan on his cross the country US tour, and became really good friends, and exchanging music. No other Bauls ever met Bob Dylan or any or the Band members. It is only Babu Kishan who had a long many decades relationship with them, after the 1967 first initial meeting with Babu's father, it was Babu who kept the relationship going. I don't know why people (journalists) and writers on Baul just say 'Baul even knew Bob Dylan', that is a complete generic watering down and appropriation of Babu Kishan's life and story?

No other Bauls ever had any association, so they can stop using Babu Kishan's story.

Years later in the early 80's after Babu was sending letters back and forth to Al Aronowitz the father of rock journalism, Babukishan the ever dutifull son made his way to New York by himself to meet with Al Aronowitz at the Rockerfeller Centre.

 Al told Babu to meet him at the Rockerfeller Centre they hit it off and became close friends...Al set up meeting with Allen Ginsberg, this is when Babu also became good friends with Allen Ginsberg, all arranged everything.

Then on November 14th in New York Babu brought his parents all the way from Indian as he had arranged a surprise meeting for his father to reconnect with Bob Dylan. 

Babu brought him all the way to the USA and met with Garth Hudson to also re-record a new recording of the Bauls and The Band fusion music, in which Babu composed all the music for 8 songs. 

Babu organised the recording with "The Band" the Baul of Bengal fusion album, it was Babu's composition, he arranged the album but the album disappeared....hmm, .. 

Babu remembers he also brought 3 guys from New York to Wookstock for this recording  a local New York Indian Tabla player named Badal Roy, Badal was the  local Raga restaurant Tabla player, and he brought  2 other guys from the Brooklyn Iskcon Temple, Lakshmi Das and Vaiyasaki Das they worked in the Hare Krishna kitchen department.. 

Babu brought them to particapate in the album and they really wanted to meet, "The Band." Vaiyasaki played the kartals as did Lakshmi Das. Al Aronowitz said to Babu, "oh Babu why did you bring those Hare Krishna guys?' Al Aronowitz thought they were just too much, he wasn't into their trip.

A year later Babu got a letter from Garth saying he was releasing an album called "Sea to the North" Babu was so surprised his compositions from the year earlier recording in Woodstock with Garth had Babukishan listed as a percussionist, he was surprised that he was not listed as a composer of the track. To this very day 2022 Babu talks to Garth Hudson who is not in good health, they have remained friends and he talked to Levon Helm until his passing too. 

It was not easy to bring his parents and himself to USA and again with no value for their music Sea to the North is not Babu's composition but what he is saying they used Babu's composition on the album without giving him proper credit or letting Babu know that they are using his tracks Garth Hudson knows the truth, Babu had brought this to his attention.

Babu took Purna Das inside Bob Dylans concert at Madison Square Gardens as a surprise to meet Bob Dylan after all those years with the help of Garth Hudson and Al Aronowitz and he was very thankful and all Bob Dylan said to Purna Das Baul was how was Laxshman Das Baul, everybody loved the carefree younger brother of Purna Das Baul. In 1985 Babukishan would travel and perform with Bob Dylan on his cross the country East West US Tour.

Babu is grateful to Al Aronowitz because he made it all happen. It had been almost 18 years since there was contact between the Bauls, and Bob Dylan The Band, or the Grossmans, and Ginsberg. Babu had listened to his parents for years talk about what they had lost out on that first trip because those people in America never paid any royalties or not a single ruppee to the Bauls music but they were selling records and when they would go to Europe they would hear their music being played, Babu thought if he could meet them they could re-record.. 

There were many people that Babu set up meetings and reconnections with the help of Al Aronowitz to reclaim some of there royalties but the music producers disappeared. Babu's Dad told him to contact Peter K Siegel and others Peter was the music producer for these albums, "Indian street Music" from Nonesuch.. 

"The Bauls of Bengal" from Electra, and "The Bauls at Big Pink" Buddha Records. None of them would meet with Babu they were selling music recorded by the Bauls and not just any Bauls but his family making money, they probably never  thought a Baul would come to America educated and speaking english and wanting to know why his family is not profiting of any of these albums? People use the lyrics of the Bauls, the music of the Bauls but for some reason do not feel they owe them anything?

 Babu contacted all the record companies as Babu at the time was Asia's (India's), CBS music label manager and consultant, he had been releasing all the top music of the world in India for Bob Dylan, Micheal Jackson ect... all these American artists were receiving royalties from oversea's so why not the Bauls of Bengal's, where were their royalties.. 

Babu found out the royalities were going to the individual Producers account. These people know, who they are, they know what they took from the Bauls and we will be writing about this in our book with more details, so stayed tuned to the Bauls unplugged. Who would have thought a Baul would ever figure it all out? Who would have thought India would rise again and want to reclaim their spiritual, intellectual, property that had been liquidated by foreigners? 

Babu developed a very strong friendship with Al Aronowtiz until Al passed away in 2005 .It was Babu who reconnected to all these people and continued to  make a trip every year to keep everybody inspired about the Bauls of Bengal.

Any meeting with any of these people in the 1980's and onward was all due to Babukishan and his effort to help his parents reconnect. Babu as a one man show has continued to keep Bauls in the limelight with much effort and time. He worked tirelessly spending his own money arranging and making a trip every year to America.

Baul songs are not Folk songs..many today are singing Bangladeshi and Bengali folk songs, or they are singing only the very simple songs, and shortening down the songs to make them simplier. Baul is more than dressing like one, holding an ektara in one hand, and singing folk songs. It certainly has nothing to do with smoking ganga in a regular sense, some Bauls smoked ganja for certain sadhana's, most Bauls did not and it certainly is not attracting people with all this talk of tantric sex.

Baul women never ever had jata or dread locks, this is something new. It all sounds like a paradox Sri Nabani Das Baul was an avadhuta Baul, these types of Bauls are rare, yes he did smoke ganja like any other wandering sadhu, or shiva baba's, the ganja did not smoke him.. He did constant sadhana... The regular villiage Bauls did not smoke ganja.

The lineage is not about ganja or tantric sex as stated by many writers in which many imposters, or Baul singers have aligned themselves with. Perhaps Neo Tantri Sex has been the quest of many people who have wanted to learn about Baul or who used to hang around with the Bauls, you can usually tell by what they write. The writers who mention Baul is about some sort of neo tantric sex you can be assured they do not know what they are talking about or they have been mislead by some Bauls who were trying to attract people??

Bauls keep their knowledge inside. They keep there sadhana inside. They are lovers of Hari, if there is no love... Hari is not there. They are the mystics, they lived in a different world than ordinary people.

This is the short real true story of how Baul is known in the modern world outside of India. It is this family, this lineage that has travelled all over the world since 1966 trying to preserve this ancient oral tradition of Vaishnava Baul…otherwise who would know what Baul is???

Actually Purna Das Baul went to Russia in the 1950's. He has been traveling for more than 70 years, and Babukishan has been traveling for more that 40 years, preserving, educating about the Baul of Bengal.

This is the beginning of the story of the first Bauls to travel to North America. Purna Das Baul had already been to Russia, and won a Gold medal in IPTI musical youth festival for his singing.

Bob Dylan, and Purna Das Baul

George Harrison (Beatles), and Allen Ginsberg (The American Beat Poet), were some of the first famous foreigners to arrive in Santinekitan, they started to learn about the Vaishnava Bauls. Both becoming great friends, and supporters of this lineage.

Babukishan, his mother Manju Das, father Purna Das Baul and 2 brothers.

Years later in 1985 Babukishan would travel and perform with Bob Dylan on his cross the country US tour, and became really good friends, and exchanging music.

Young Krishnendu Baul playing Sri Khol 

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For hundreds of years, and with escalating intensity over the past several decades, the historical achievements, "firsts and lasts," and sacred lineage (paramparā) of our family have been systematically poached, misattributed, and erased.

The pioneering, legendary work that brought the authentic Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyā Baul heritage out of the villages of Birbhum—built on selfless sevā, fundraising, and lifelong dedication—has been reduced by outsiders to a commercialized performance, a "guru business," and a circus of fabrication.

 Long before modern pretenders attempted to retrace, cosplay, or claim ownership of Baul an inner  indigenous Birbhuma Bengali science, the true global footprint of the 13-generation Birbhum Baul lineage was already permanently written into history. 

 

When Baul Samrat Purna Das Baul and Manju Das—the first Baul woman to travel the world—pioneered authentic Baul in America beginning in 1967, and when their eldest son KD Babu Kishan (Krishnendu Das Baul) created a legendary decades-long bridge between Calcutta, New York City, and California from 1980 to 2005 to meet the friendships he had made with Al Aronowitz, Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan and The Band, it was not a publicity stunt; it was a cultural revolution. 

 

Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan)  deep, personal alliance with Al Aronowitz—the legendary "Godfather of Rock Journalism" whose iconic Blacklisted Journalist archives are now permanently preserved at Stanford University—stands as an unshakable, archival record of authentic Baul history. No social media performance, fabricated biography, or digital shadow-footprinting can erase or absorb this primary lineage: you cannot cosplay a legacy forged in the soil of Birbhum for 13 generations, preserved in the world's greatest university archives, and written by the very pioneers who brought Baul to the West.

 

This is the only authentic History with New York and Baul. The Cosplayer Bauls have shadow footprinted each step they have made, gone everywhere they have gone, in an act as if they were the fist it is obvious they actually are even know calling themselves the new Purna Das Baul? No you can never replace or displace indigneous Baul history, this history is a first and last, one and only in Baul history. A cosplayer, Baul Artist or self-titled Baul Master is not a Baul. 

 

Cosplayer follow this lineage shadow footprinting what is indigenous to this lineage, making up lineages, and fake Baul Gurus and have for a few decades been erasing us by trying to replace us. They have been taking, everything, that is a history first and last regarding indigenous Baul. This lineage has travelled extensivly for many decades of 'lived lives' then erasing the actual history by tracking and remaking our already lived historical Baul. 

 

No they are not Baul, they have constructed stories and costumes people in the west and India think are exotic cosplaying (not Baul) copy Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Purna Das Baul and whatever Babu Kishan earned through hard work, songs, style, instruments, dance and even the words that Babu Kishan has specifically used never used outside of this lineage. All of Babu Kishan hard work he did pioneering Baul worldwide, he was a monk for 12 years in Ramakrishna order that is Baul history the first and last, they have even tried to cosplay that too, his teaching at Univerisities and his 40 year career in Indian Cinema (Bollywood) from A to Z. 

 

His work as an actual Music Composer where he had to be qualified, write exams, and be certified with the credentials as a Music Composer he was awarded the youngest Music Composer of Bengal at age 11. Baul did not do these things, Babu Kishan as an indigenous born into the lap of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul. There is a huge history that went into Babu Kishan (Krishnendu Das Baul) and how this new history of Baul took place. I will not let anyone who steals his legacy, or that of Purna Das Baul and Nabani Das Khyapa Baul to get away with it through a calculated cosplay of shadow footprinting their lives, remaking their lives including all the indigenous intellecual theft of this stories. Everybody knows Baul is extinct, for too long non-indigenous people to Birbhum have been using Baul.

 

He actually worked in Indian Cinema, he did the work, he is the only Baul associated in Indian Cinema? 

 

Shadow footprinting is pretending you did the work, you are the Baul, you are the next Purna Das Baul through a series of acted out fake Baul social media pictures. Basically lies. I have screenshot, documented all the lies in my files over 20 years. 

 

When recently I saw Historical Baul the title of our trilogy Books also, incorporated into the title of Babu Kishans 3 books, I realized this was sick, and they would go to all lengths if they were not called out. I have decided no more, done, Babu Kishan has asked me never to mention their names until books are published. I won't he does not want their names on or near any of his work or actually anything to do with Baul. He will speak on this probably sooner that later, through the media and all will be revealed. 

 

Do NOT copy, All rights reserved 2010 -2040 No Shadow Footprinting or poaching, these are not fake Bauls stories, this blog is a first hand Baul Archive, excuse my typing errors. Read the copyright statements on this blog, which are presented because of the sheer faking of Baul, while riding on the coattails of this lineage, poaching and shadow footprinting every step this lineage has already completed as a 'first and last' decades before.

 

  “When people steal from our culture they end up distorting our culture, they turn it into something we do not even recognize, erasing us by replacing us.”  

They re-package a watered-down or romanticized version. The mainstream world then accepts the fake/distorted version as authentic, effectively erasing the original living caretakers and replacing them in the public consciousness. I have see this in academia, and in the western audiences who do not have a clue, if it sweetly smiles and looks exotic it must be, whether their lineage is fake, their style and songs are appropriated, they have not got a clue.

When a sacred song, medicine, or teaching is taken out of its traditional lineage, it loses its spirit or in this case Baul essence (the Shakti that has been passed down for hundreds of years). When the dominant society spreads that distorted version, the original community is erased because their true practice is no longer recognized—even by their own youth who grow up seeing only the mainstream caricature. 

 Krishnendu Das Baul went to New York every years and has a huge history in NY city and Woodstock since the late 1970s though to 2005. After the he was in the tsunami in 2004 in Indonesia and stayed for weeks after doing Seva, he never ran home, this is not Baul, a Baul always stays and helps. Even when Babu Kishan got back to Mumbai he fundraised for the survivors of the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia where 240,000 people perished. This event completely changed the trajectory of his life. He has always traveled to California and has a huge history there.

https://bhavaproject.weebly.com/news-blog/archives/09-2018 

https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2018/09/babu-kishan-and-bob-dylan-untold-story.html 

https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2012/04/kd-babukishan-osho-bauls-of-bengal.html 

https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2022/07/kichhu-din-mone-mone-by-nabani-das.html 

 https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2021/08/bob-dylan-and-babukishan-why-do-people.html

https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-evening-concluded-with-presentation_3.html

 https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2011/10/allen-ginsberg-his-baul-guru-nabani-das.html

 https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2025/06/baul-fusion-creator-kd-babu-kishan-with.html 

BabuKishan.org

 

“Baul of Bengal, I sing for all,  Blue Danube is my Jamuna,  Hudson my Vrindavan, see me in Calcutta, Toronto and London,  Hear my call Baul of Bengal,  Same man many names,  same player,  many games,  Love is magic to win at life,  Hear my call O Baul of Bengal.” 

By Allen Ginsberg, 

given to Babu Kishan in honour of Nabani Das Khaypa Baul

 

Sung by Babu Kishan, presented on the stage with Bob Dylan & The Band during the 1985 tour of USA 

 

Babu Kishan listed on "The Bands, 'page Related Artists. For those that do not know The Band is Bob Dylan's original Band, it included Robbie Robertson, Garth Hudson, Levon Helm and others. Babu used to jam with them all the time and he performed about 40 concerts around America with 'Bob Dylan and The Band' in the mid 1980's where he sang the poetry Allen Ginsberg wrote for Babu Kishan in honour of Babu's grandfather, Nabani Das Khyapa Baul who Allen Ginsberg first met in 1962 in Birbhum.

http://theband.hiof.no/related/index.html
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Baul already has been 'archived and preserved', it was preserved decades ago by Babu Kishan. This lineage of Baul is the only Lineage of Baul, all Bauls follow this lineage, they sing their songs, dress like them and follow them around the world.


 The Black Listed Journalist, the God Father of Rock Journalism, Al ARONOWITZ, his black listed journals have just been sold to Stanford Univerisity. He is a huge icon in Rock Journalism and he was a really unlikely good friend of Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan) for almost 2 decades in New York City. 

 This is a blog post from BabuKishan.org  where he has another blog

Babu Kishan is the first young person from India to associate with all the American and British Musicians. He was best friends with George Harrison and all too, he met the Rolling Stones when he was only 9 years old in the UK and he remained good friend with many through the decades.

Babu Kishan was only in his early 20's 1984/1985 and he was well entrenched in Western Music, he had a very good friend named Al Aronowitz in New York, USA. Al Aronowitz was the creator and God father of Rock Journalism, he was later called the Black Listed Journalist. Al was a good friend of the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan and he knew everyone in the music scene. Aronowitz was the USA PR person for the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and he introduced Bob Dylan to the Beatles and The Rolling Stones.

Somehow, the unlikely 2 met and the much older Al Aronowitz came to love Babu like a son, even introduced Babu to his own children. Over the decades he introduced Babu Kishan to many people and one of those was Quincy Jones. 

​Babu Kishan has always been a 'Master Collector', he has a huge record album, stamp, coin, instrument, book, manuscripts, videos of the world, pictures and a 'sun glass collection' he collected camera's both movie and still camera's and he left at his Calcutta Dhakuria home. It better still all be there because it is still his home and he never authorized anybody to touch his 'life work' of collecting or his extensive collections.

Babu was born to collect and preserve music, categorize the music of India, he has worked for the biggest record companies in Bombay doing just that categorizing the Folk Music of India as he is an expert and Babu was born to preserve his Baul lineage. He has a Masters Degree in Indian Music from Calcutta University.

Krishnendu KD aka Babu preserved all of his Baul tradition decades ago and it is safely archived, this has already been done yet there are still new Bauls who are tricking people to donate money to preserve Baul. These 'nakal' fake Bauls are not to be trusted, they are cheating people, they are not from Baul they are not even from Birbhum.

Babu's extensive record collection were personally signed by many of the Greatest Rock Musicians on the planet.

In 1984 Al Aronowitz took Babu Kishan to Tower Records where Babu had chosen Albums by Micheal Jackson, Bob Dylan, Elvis, Ray Charles, Disco Hits, Quincy Jones, just as he was going to pay for them Quincy Jones appeared and Al Aronowitz introduced Babu to Quincy Jones. Al was going on and on telling Quincy about Babu Kishan and his music career in India. Quincy thanked, Babu for coming to Tower Records and said, all the records were a gift from Quincy. Very thankful and please at meeting Quincy Jones to Babu's delight all the albums were free. Babu said, "Quincy was such a down to earth person and great soul."

The Recording of "We are the World" Babu Kishan was there in the background watching the recording.

The second time Babu Kishan met Quincy Jones again was with Al Aronowitz at the Recording of "We are the World" in New York 1985, it was a honour to be there and watch the whole production. I was lucky to sit and watch Quincy Jones at work with all the Greats of America. They were all so busy but I was there! Babu said, I am so lucky and I went on to release these 'Greats of American music' in India when I worked for CBS India (now Sony Music) From 1986- 1994 I personally met many of them during this time period.

We are the World Recording attendee's:
  Lionel Richie
 •  Stevie Wonder
 •  Paul Simon
 •  Kenny Rogers
 •  James Ingram
 •  Tina Turner
 •  Billy Joel
 •  Michael Jackson
 •  Diana Ross
 •  Dionne Warwick
 •  Willie Nelson
 •  Al Jarreau
 •  Bruce Springsteen
 •  Kenny Loggins
 •  Steve Perry
 •  Daryl Hall
 •  Huey Lewis
 •  Cyndi Lauper
 •  Kim Carnes
 •  Bob Dylan
 •  Ray Charles
Chorus (alphabetically)
 •  Dan Aykroyd
 •  Harry Belafonte
 •  Lindsey Buckingham
 •  Mario Cipollina
 •  Johnny Colla
 •  Sheila E.
 •  Bob Geldof
 •  Bill Gibson
 •  Chris Hayes
 •  Sean Hopper
 •  Jackie Jackson
 •  La Toya Jackson
 •  Marlon Jackson
 •  Randy Jackson
 •  Tito Jackson
 •  Waylon Jennings
 •  Bette Midler
 •  John Oates
 •  Jeffrey Osborne
 •  The Pointer Sisters
 •  Smokey Robinson

Special thanks always to my Good Friend Al Aronowitz it was through him that I reconnected The Band & Bob Dylan & Albert B Grossman to my father for the first time since 1967 where I arranged a 40 city tour of America with Bob Dylan.

All the contacts after 1967 came through me and my friendship with Al Aronowitz. He was an unlikely friend but such a great friend for decades along with Allen Ginsberg. 

 “When people steal from our culture they end up distorting our culture, they turn it into something we do not even recognize, erasing us by replacing us.”  

They re-package a watered-down or romanticized version. The mainstream world then accepts the fake/distorted version as authentic, effectively erasing the original living caretakers and replacing them in the public consciousness. I have see this in academia, and in the western audiences who do not have a clue, if it sweetly smiles and looks exotic it must be, whether their lineage is fake, their style and songs are appropriated, they have not got a clue.

When a sacred song, medicine, or teaching is taken out of its traditional lineage, it loses its spirit or in this case Baul essence (the Shakti that has been passed down for hundreds of years). When the dominant society spreads that distorted version, the original community is erased because their true practice is no longer recognized—even by their own youth who grow up seeing only the mainstream caricature. 

Lineage Historical Anchor  Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan) BabuKishan,org Baul Samrat Purna Das Baul - award winning Indian singer and Baul singer who is the Baul who introduced the world to Baul and Indian culture, singing, kritan as an indigneous Baul. His father Nabani Das Khyapa Baul was the first Baul to sing on stages he introduced India to who the Bauls of Birbhum West Bengal were. They are the only Roots of Vaishnava Sahajiya Baul and Baul for that Matter. Nabani Das Khyapa was the last Baul Guru and Baul Avadhut, the only Baul who was initiated by Bama Kepa at Tarapith.  Their first and last historical significanace, all the firsts and lasts regarding Baul have been Shadow Footprinted tracked, retraced and erased.

 

Key Baul Figures & Lineage

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Core Baul Concepts & Philosophy

#Baultantra #GaudiyaVaishnavaandBaul #Baulphilosophy #VaishnavaSahajiya #VaishnavaSahajiyaTantricBauls #KrishnaKaliunity #Krishnakali #RaaiRajaLila #Baulsadhana #BaulAvadhut #BaulAvadhuta #BaulthepathoftheAvadhuta #BaulsahajaKrishnaDattatreyasahahaja #Baultantramantragopiyantra #BaulKirtan #BaultheRasaLilaMystics #BaulVayuTula #Baulwindcatchers #mirrorofthesky

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Geographic & Cultural Context

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Critique & Preservation

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Baul Music

#baulmusic #baulgaan #Bauldocumentary #baulsangeet #baulkirtan #ektara #gopiyantra

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Related Figures & Movements

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General & Other

#baul #historicalBaul #pioneeringBaul #baulwomen #baulsaint #legendarybaul #baulartist #BaulGuruShishyaParampara #Baulparampara

"Authentic Baul" #AuthenticBaul

"Vaishnava Sahajiya Tantric Bauls" #VaishnavaSahajiyaTantricBauls

"Birbhum Baul" #BirbhumBaul

"Nabani Das Khyapa Baul" #NabaniDasKhyapaBaul 

"Babu Kishan Baul" / "Krishnendu Das Baul" #KrishnenduDasBaul

"Baul Guru Shishya Parampara" #BaulGuruShishyaParampara #Baulparampara

"Baul philosophy" #Baulphilosophy

"Krishna Kali unity" #Krishnakali

"Raai Raja lila" #RaaiRajaLila

"Real Baul history" #Baulrealhistory

"Baul cultural appropriation" #baulculturalappropriation

"Endangered Baul lineage" #Baulendangeredlineageparampara

#BaulandRamakrishna

Baul and Ramakrishna is only associated with KD Babu Kishan as he is the only Baul to be a monk in the Ramakrishna Mission for 12 years, this is a first and last in Baul. 

#Baul&Tantra 

Baul and Tantra is only associated with Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and KD Babu Kishan, Baul and Tarapith is only associated with them both too. Those others are not Baul as Baul Artist of an non-indigenous Baul is not a Baul but a users, poser, actor trying to remake the already lived lives of this parampara, do you speak the language, do you know what they are singing or who is the owner of the songs, or even if the songs are Baul songs, no you do not, so don't make emotional promotional comments when you do not even understand. You are cheering for a fake Baul and have no clue.

• The practice of "Baul Kirtan-anga" Copyright, all songs will be reclaimed that belong to this lineages.  

  #BaulKirtan 

  (only this lineage, parampara, no one used Baul kirtan until they read it on this blog, this is downright appropriation and false advertising by fake opportunistic self-titled so-called Bauls for marketing purposes, they have appropriated this lineages intellectual property, it can be proven and must be brought to the attention of the public because they are asking for donations and fundraising for jackpots, awards, grants and are not Baul, their Guru is a fake Baul Guru.

  
  

• The "Rasa Lila Mystics" this is the only lineage parampara that is Vaishnava and Vaishnava Sahajiya Gosia Chandra Das Baul and Dasi, there is not another, never was. #BaultheRasaLilaMystics

  
  

• "Baul Tantra Mantra Gopi Yantra". Copyright, no poaching  

  #Baultantramantragopiyantra

• "The path of the Avadhuta". Copyright there are no other Baul Avadhuta's and that title only belongs to this lineage or singular parampara, there is not another. They make Baul a no name generic Baul while claiming the intellectual property and the already lived firsts and lasts of this lineage. I have documented thousands of misuse of Baul for over 20 years, if you would like to see my research contact KD Babu Kishan, his website is listed throughout this blog and website  

  #BaulthepathoftheAvadhuta

• "Baul Sahaja is Krishna & Dattatreya Sahaja". Copyright and only mentioned by KD Babu Kishan  

  #BaulsahajaKrishnaDattatreyasahahaja

The Windcatchers (Vayu Tula). #BaulVayuTula. #baulwindcatchers

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"Vaishnava Sahajiya Tantric Bauls" #VaishnavaSahajiyaTantricBauls

"Birbhum Baul" #BirbhumBaul

"Nabani Das Khyapa Baul" #NabaniDasKhyapaBaul 

"Babu Kishan Baul" / "Krishnendu Das Baul" #KrishnenduDasBaul

"Baul Guru Shishya Parampara" #BaulGuruShishyaParampara #Baulparampara

"Baul philosophy" #Baulphilosophy

"Krishna Kali unity" #Krishnakali

"Raai Raja lila" #RaaiRajaLila

"Real Baul history" #Baulrealhistory

"Baul cultural appropriation" #baulculturalappropriation

"Endangered Baul lineage" #Baulendangeredlineageparampara

#BaulandRamakrishna

#Baul&Tantra 

• The practice of "Baul Kirtan-anga"  

  #BaulKirtan

• The "Rasa Lila Mystics" Raasa leela Mystics, Raas Tattva (this lineage only)  

  #BaultheRasaLilaMystics

• "Baul Tantra Mantra Gopi Yantra".  

  #Baultantramantragopiyantra

• "The path of the Avadhuta".  

  #BaulthepathoftheAvadhuta

• "Baul Sahaja is Krishna & Dattatreya Sahaja". #BaulsahajaKrishnaDattatreyasahahaja

The Windcatchers (Vayu Tula). #BaulVayuTula. #baulwindcatchers

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