Not your regular Baul, a mystical and last authentic Baul to walk on earth. His songs are not for sale, they should not be stolen off Babu Kishan's youtube channel and acted out without permission and then to make up a fake lineage this is indigenous fraud at its worst and will be qualified very soon.
Indigenous Baul fraud and indigenous Baul identity theft is real, the first tenant of Baul is to tell the truth.
This includes Nabani's songs, style of dance Ektara Baya and his style of ankle bells called Nupoor. This is Nabani's style along with the 2 stringed Gubgubi or Khamak that he named and only he named 'Ananda Lahari' this style does not belong to any random Bauls who are not from lineage Bauls but are fishing for social media fame, awards and especially when they made up a fake Baul Guru based on a one generation poet, fundraising to preserve Baul is insidious especially when Baul has already been preserved over 60 decades by Babu Kishan.
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2025/02/indigenous-identity-theft-indigenous.html
Nabani Das Baul was a Wild Kheppa Baul, a Sadhaka, A wandering sadhu, yogi, siddha Baul.
A well known sadhaka @ Tarapith, initiated by Bhama Khepa
Yes, also Vaishnava but each and everyone has our own path and in Baul this is allowed.
Bauls are not pedantic, they are lovers of Love, pure Bhakti Yoga and lovers of all the Divine..
"MEMOIRS OF THE LEGENDARY NABANI KHYAPA. LITTLE KNOWN TO THE WORLD AS THE MAJOR SPIRITUAL GUIDE TO TAGORE."
Nabani Khepa sat in his asana and began his daily ritual: he packed his panchamukhi chillum with a fine mixture of tobacco and hashish. When it was ready, he dabbed it with snake venom, which he kept in a tiny mother of pearl casket. Silence reigned supreme.
Suddenly a morol, an elder with a voice in the village's affairs, burst in on Nabani: "Father, get ready to leave for Bakreswar immediately!" ... "There has been a death in the village. It is our custom that when someone dies on the day of Nabanya, all of us must accompany the body to the cremation in Bakreswar, and then bathe in the Jivanakund to be prified.
So saying, the man left. Nabani turned to his wife, Brajabala : "We are leaving this village this instant".
His tone made the children realise the gravity of his statement. As they left, Nabani lit his five-headed pipe and sucked on it, crying "Jai guru!"
After a long time, Brajabala turned to Nabani: "Why did we leave the village?"
The response was simple. "How can a Baul live among people who expect him to run after a corpse?"
https://indiafolkheritageofbengal.weebly.com/cultural-misappropriation.html
