New Book - to be released in 2025
Historical Autobiography of Baul
The Rasa Lila Mystics
Reclaiming the Indigenous Ancestral Heritage of the
Vaishnava Sahajiya Tantric Bauls of Birbhum
BAUL TANTRA- MANTRA- GOPI YANTRA
The path of the Avadhuta, Krishna Sahaja and Dattatreya Sahaja
by Trishula S Das as told by Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das (Chand Gosia) Das Baul
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Copyright, no poaching, which appears does not matter, however, it does matter and will be called out loudly.
The truth will be told.
Baul is not Buddhist Sahaja?
No one ever said, Krishna Sahaja or Dattatreya Sahaja before, lets see how they will steal this too, much of this one and only lineage (parampara has been safeguarded from poaching) yet it continues and has become viral, Baul has been kept secret for exactly this reason.
This lineage learned long ago, that their indigenous intellectual property is being poached for commercial purposes in the Fake Baul industry. We have given out secrets over the years all have been copied and poached, enough is enough.
Baul is for everybody, it is for humanity, what it is not for is fake Baba and Ma commercial industry. The only people that can self-determine who is Baul is the indigenous Bauls, the people who preserved Baul through time in a very long line.
The reductionism and watering down as Baul used as a commercial fundraising jackpot donation, expansionists by fake Bauls, call them what you like, actors, performers who make up parampara's and fake Baul Guru's, while poaching the history of the indigenous Baul, all their firsts and lasts in Baul history remade and bragged about on social media as if they are the first. KD Babu Kishan calls them hawker Bauls.
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'Babu Kishan aka Krishendu Das Baul in 1986 Los Angeles California, USA George Harrison held a a book release party for Babu Kishan's 3th book on Baul, edited by Lila Roy who was Rabindranath Tagore's translator and editor. George Harrison was a good friend of Babu Kishan's along with the sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar. '
We have careful coded terms never mentioned before, the copying of this Guru shishy parampara sampradaya aka parampara has gone too far, and how would you know, you would not know, that is why this book is being released to set the record straight and clean up the false narratives. We have asked nicely stating copyrighted and no poaching please, but you think you are so smart?
Note: watch every Baul will become an Avadhuta Baul, there is a story behind this, and nobody should self-title themselves as such, or as Khyapa Baba or Khyapa Baul the name the villagers of Birbhum gave Nabani Das Khyapa Baul?
Whatever Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul writes, talks about as the eldest Baul of his generation as a born in Birbhum indigenous Baul has been copied.
For example: teaching at Universities, he has been teaching at universities around the world for decades, preserving Baul for over 60 years because he is qualified as a guest lecturer, why would anybody re-make his history as an advertisement, teaching false narratives?
Re-recording Baul kirtans and Baul songs even his own poetry for youtube display, never credit given just brazen intellectual property theftm they do not even know they are using KD Babu Kishan tunes.
The use of Baul Akhara ( never used by any fake Bauls before), the Baul dumi (fire pit disgusted on this blog) because of the misuse of the Akhara as a hang out for collecting devotee's, this is not Baul? They read it here and used it. Same with Baul kirtan never ever even mentioned, before KD Babu Kishan started to talk about Baul Kirtan, Baul Tantra, now all advertised? Daily new random parroting from this blog re-worked with their random name dropping as if they are the ones, you can not even make this up anymore. What is written in this blog, name dropped, re-worked as if they fake (nakal), shilpi (actor) Bauls are the ones?
'Baul and Tantra' Tarapith and Kankali Tala and Baul Avadhuta are only in relation to Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and this parampara or lineage it does not matter what name you use, this is the only one. The stage acting of dancing with Ektara, Baya (drum tied around the waist) and Nuppor (ankle bells encased in metal) are all Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, this will come out, you can not "fake it til you make it" using the indigenous intellectual property of this lineage one and only parampara and lie to people that you have a Baul Guru and are from a made up Baul lineage, truth will be told loudly.
'Baul and Gaudiya Vaishnavism', (this is only this lineages history, it is not related to your fake self-titled Das Baul Guru, this is their ancestral history as ancestors of Nityananda (Chandra Gosia) of Ekachakra Birbhum W Bengal. This lineage used to fundraise for Gaudiya Math, and now the fake Bauls talking on youtube are pretending they are related, they are not Baul in the first place, they are using Baul. This will all be qualified, this is just the start of speaking out. We are not ready yet, however, very soon.
Don't worry we will be letting people know, talking and qualifying Purva Paksha of who you really are, you are even trying to make associations with KD Babu Kishans 40 years career in Indian Cinema? That is a one off, Indian Cinema was his job because indigenous Baul could not survive the modern world, they also, were so appropriated by fakes who took their new template away that was created by KD Babu Kishan for the indigenous Bauls, however, it was usurped by fake pretendian Baul. The indigenous Bauls have had to survive and Babu Kishan created a new template for their livelihoods because their way of life was no more, not unlike all indigenous people of the planet. It is not a joke, the people who came to Baul used Baul to sell tantric sex in Shantiniketan (long story). The tricker fake Bauls copied the songs, style, dress, where they went and what they did and sold themselves as Baul to people who do not have a clue, that continues to this day, however, it is more insidious, you do not speak the langue, nor know what they are singing, it is an act. Just as many people follow fake Guru's today, they are trying their hand at this type of fakery and how would you know. Are you an expert at Baul, there is no way.
Livelihood is a way of life, means securing basic necessities (food, water, shelter, an clothing) how can the indigenous Bauls survive if others are faking them, imitating them, people from middle class families out of the blue are following everything they do and reworking their Baul history? Please think about this.
Every aspect of this lineage that has already been lived as part of Baul history, all the fists and lasts, have been copied, re-made through inauthentic associations? Including KD Babu Kishan's 12 years as a monk at the Ramakrishna Mission, this is a very specific part of Baul history and Babu Kishan is the first and last to live this history, it is his to tell not to be faked and claimed by the fake and bragged about, did you fundraise for the Ramakrishna as Babu Kishan did for decades worldwide. No just pictures, it was only Babu Kishan who told about Baul Tattva's otherwise no outsiders knew about Baul tattva's, they were written in Purna Das Bauls book Baul Philosphy copied from Babu Kishan's notes left in the Calcutta home
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This lineage specifically is only associated with 'Gaudiya Vaishnavism' through there ancestry and they have been major fundraisers for decades for both the Ramakrishna Mission and Gaudiya Vaishnavism.
Authentic Baul Sadhana's are only known by this lineage of parampara if the fake is teaching them, they are copied out of Purna Das Baul book or gathered from other books as they can only be taught by an authentic indigenous Baul, outsiders do not know them, so them again a bunch of mumble jumble of fakery acted out on youtube.
This is only this lineages history and her-story and they do not need you to take their names off, making Baul generic, random or a no name brand type of Baul so you can claim it was you. This is done purposely to create false associations, yet up pick the bones of this lineage for social media fake fame.
Taking every aspect of this paramparas already lived lives and history picked dry to the bone, remade into youtube video's with one liners, adding carefully curated marketing pictures to act as if they are the one.
You are not from Baul, you are not indigenous to Birbhum, you come from completely different states, with completely different ancestors, Baul is based on indigenous ancestry a very specific ancestry. You and your fake Baul Guru are not from Bribhum and certainly not from Baul. There is no lineage or parampara it is made up.
These fakes are using Baul to fundraise for jackpots, to collect people, travel the world, while riding on the coattails of this lineage of indigenous ancestral Baul of 13 generations and many more generations before.
The story of this lineage is one of a systemic intellectual indigenous property theft, that has transpired since the 1970s copied or appropriated by Pretendain Fake Bauls, the shilpi Bauls who had the gaul to call a over 90 year old Baul Samrat (Padma Shree) Purna Das Baul a shilpi Baul?
"The reclamation of indigenous ancestral Baul aka Vayu Tula, V is B in vernacular Birbhum Bengali.
Baul is 2 Sanskrit works not one, distinctions matter and the self-determination of any indigenous people is that of the indigenous people.
Vayu Tula = Bayu Tula = Batula = Baula = Baul using only a Baul technique (tantra) from this one and only Vaishnava Sahajiya parampara called Rasa Tattva (copy right, please do not poach as told by KD Babu Kishan) for this lineage only.'
Baul is not afflicted by the wind, now scholars are calling Baul vatula which is a one word Ayurvedic term for Vata derrangement, a medical condition, this is not Baul.
Distinctions matter, and that is why the correct preservation of Baul is must. No one should be fundraising to preserve Baul, when Baul has been preserved by KD Babu Kishan over the past more than 60 years.
Nobody should be going around playing pretend anymore, riding on the coattails of this lineage.
Cultural Mis-Appropriation = Indigenous Genocide, leads to the deletion of Indigenous ancestral Bauls and is replaced by the pretendian Bauls.
Pretendian Bauls:
Fraud and identity theft are erasing indigenous Baul, by replacing indigenous Baul?
The Pretendians is a documentary made in Canada that gives a clear picture of the seriousness of the subject of pretendian you are something that you are not. “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.” This has happened to Baul, they have been erased by fake Bauls who have distorted Baul which is an indigenous tradition, lineage based on ancestry.
https://www.knowledge.ca/program/pretendians
https://globalnews.ca/news/9450313/pretendians-canada-indigenous-ancestry/
https://brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/analysis-bourassa-pretendian-metis-scholars-redefined-indigenous-identity-policy/
The wokism of the world has allowed people to self-identify as cats, and dogs? People self identify as yogis, music composers which is the PHD of music, and every indigenous group in the world. The problem with self-identification with indigenous Baul or perhaps any indigenous group has taken away the self-determination and opportunities of these marginalized groups. When the indigenous people are not the representatives of their ancient ancestry and they are replaced by outsiders who merely copy their dress, style, songs and narratives, the survival of these groups is extinguished because the essence is not present.
Moving beyond self-identification
"While the revelation of Bourassa’s identity fraud brought tremendous hurt and feelings of betrayal to the Métis and broader Indigenous community, we did not anticipate our complaint would transform identity politics.”
In Canada, universities, governments and other agencies are now implementing ancestry-verification policies. Individuals are required to show proof of membership, connection or citizenship to an Indigenous community when applying for opportunities reserved for Indigenous Peoples.’
Those opportunities reserved for indigenous people include grants, funding, awards, prestige and opportunities specifically set aside to help marginalized communities who are indigenous.
“There are two kinds of fraudsters, according to Teillet: fabricators who invent Indigenous identities whole cloth and embellishers who exaggerate some perceived connection.
Some embellishers bolster their claims using the results of DNA tests showing small percentages of Indigenous heritage. Others exploit unverified family stories about a distant Indigenous relative. Whatever kind of identity fraud they’re engaging in, they generally lie to get ahead professionally.
Maybe they want an Indigenous award or grant or acceptance into networks that are closed to them.
Such fraudsters exploit affirmative action initiatives or diversity, equity and inclusion protections,” says Teillet.
As an Indigenous applicant, the person could be accepted into law or medical school when they’d otherwise be rejected. And sometimes, the motivation is even simpler: “They want something that makes them unique and different, and this gives them a chance to say they’re special,” Teillet says.
https://torontolife.com/deep-dives/gill-sisters-pretendian-fraud/
“Their adoption of Indigenous identities allows them access to jobs, money, and opportunities that are set aside for Indigenous people. Pretendians raise issues with respect to employment/labour law, charter, and privacy issues. It also calls into question recent Supreme Court of Canada case law. These identity issues – whether it is an individual right to identify as Indigenous, whether the Indigenous nation has any say, whether there are any necessary requirements to claim an Indigenous identity – are very much in the spotlight as writers, filmmakers, lawyers, and academics are exposed in the press for having little or no right to the Indigenous identities they have been claiming. Some have made these dubious claims for decades and have built fame, prestige, and careers on them.”
“What a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive — that’s what happens. They get tangled up in their own stories,” said Teillet, who is the great-grandniece of famed Metis leader Louis Riel. Teillet’s report examined the harm caused by Indigenous identity fraud, outlined red flags for spotting potential deceit and suggested measures to prevent it. It came in the wake of a series of controversies over claims of Indigenous identity by prominent members of Canadian academic, literary and entertainment circles in recent years.” Canadian Lawyer Jean Teillet LLP
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/indigenous-identity-theft-is-more-widespread-than-people-think-says-metis-lawyer-jean-teillet/
Seriously and it may sound petty but there is pretendian Baul and their social media minions who have been telling Babu Kishan's personal lived stories about Nabani and name dropping Bob Dylans name as if they actually know, they don't, telling stories from this blog that have only he has ever been told here. This is identity theft and intellectual property theft, copying his life, where he goes, what he has lived bit by bit, copying Purna Das Baul and Nabani Das Baul and making up fake Baul Guru's and Fake Baul lineages (all can be proved and is documented). Just because it looks exotic does not mean it is, the more exotic a person looks the more fake they usually are, it is costume, if you are interested in Baul you have to be smarter than social media charm.
Unfortunately this is a real thing regarding the new phenomenon
of social media faked famed pretendian Baul actors,
sometimes called Baul artists or Baul Masters?
Appreciation and Appropriation
are 2 completely different things.
The dangers of untruths already perpetuated by fake hawker pretendian Bauls, is reductionism, watering down, abusing the intellectual property of this one and only lineage of Baul. Twisting there make up story to claim supremacy over Baul, they start with poaching one thing, get a little bolder, thinking no one is watching, no one cares, no one knows, the next thing they rework history, drop one liners about drops of history and wella they are the authority, they change their names to Sri Sri and are now experpts in Baul, it can be very subtle, it is no different from what has happened in the west with Yoga, Tantra ect, they take some courses and are now expert Yogi's while the indigenous part of Yoga is dropped with the essence gone they now are Yogi's, Tantrics, Bhakti Yogis and slowly the nuances disappear and it is not like the authentic ever was. It is now a product to be marketed and they are now the experts, however, the essence is gone, the nuances have disappeared and they are the ones who invented and brought Baul to the west.
It is a scam, a lie, an untruth, inauthentic acting game of using this lineage? So if you read it here and think the other is this, they are riding on the coattails of this lineage, they are not Baul, they are using Baul and have been doing so for decades?
Our mission to archive Baul accurately and authentically from a first hand indigenous source for the ancestors and future generation interested in indigenous Baul Sanatan Dharma aka Hinduism and the authentic correctly nuanced Baul source.
The practices and the stories of this lineage only 'oldest and only' lineage of Baul who pioneered Baul and preserved Baul (Vayu Tula) for thousands of years. Therefore, if you are reading this, thinking this pertains to the fake Bauls, it has nothing to do with them, this is the only lineage are the only Bauls who are Bhakti Yogi's and are the only lineage of Baul Kirtan. As far as I can see and I have watched, researched, documented and listened to Babu Kishan 24/7 during this time is that hawker Baul only water down and reduce Baul and are devoid in the essence of Baul. Rodham and Parvthy are in the Baba and Maa business a game to claim and take the authority of Baul over to collect people and fundraise for financial jackpots. They morph constantly, they will twist and try, but the fact remains, she has appropriated the songs from this lineage, she dances Nabani Das style of Ektara, Baya, and wears his style only of ankle bells everything is copied from this lineage. Explain that one and if Babu Kishan did not speak out, who would know? The copying, appropriating does not fit the reality they speak.
This is a rough draft, it still needs to be edited. It is long with a few articles hooked together, I am working on it, but wanted to put it out there, because if I don't say now, the fake Bauls will have made youtube videos where they poach Baul from the writings on this blog, all documented in my files and it will be made public, this has gone on for too long, this is what happens when fake people have no shame or sense of truth.
Copyright, no poaching and plagiarizing for youtube videos? This unfortunately must be brought to the attention of the public, because of Jackpot fundraising, donation collecting when you are not indigenous to Baul is indigenous fraud. Fundraising to preserve Baul when Baul has been preserved by this lineage and over 60 years by Babu Kishan is indigenous fraud and indigeous intellectual property theft, so think next time you steal a Baul song from this lineage or right off Babu Kishan's youtube channel and feel entitled to re-record it? We will openly call all this out now, it has gone on for too long. What is real appears as false, and what is false appears as real, this is Kali Yuga the time we live in. Stop indigenous fraud.
“Their adoption of Indigenous identities allows them access to jobs, money, and opportunities that are set aside for Indigenous people.
Pretendians raise issues with respect to employment/labour law, charter, and privacy issues. It also calls into question recent Supreme Court of Canada case law.
These identity issues – whether it is an individual right to identify as Indigenous, whether the Indigenous nation has any say, whether there are any necessary requirements to claim an Indigenous identity – are very much in the spotlight as writers, filmmakers, lawyers, and academics are exposed in the press for having little or no right to the Indigenous identities they have been claiming. Some have made these dubious claims for decades and have built fame, prestige, and careers on them."
This one and only lineage does not follow others, others follow them.
These pretendian Baul actors make up stories, teach false narratives while 'riding on the coattails' of this lineage, this has been proven and I have hundreds of documented examples and proof.
Babu Kishan says, these type of people or the pretendian Bauls are HAWKERS. I didn't understand, then he explained those that change their story all the time are hawkers, they do what brings attention, if what they do doesn't work they move on to the next thing at all costs. This is not new, this has been going on for decades and probably started with their self-titled, so called Baul Gurus.
Baul Hawkers are random wandering people who have no roots in Baul, they watched us closely, learned our songs, then followed where we traveled in India and worldwide, they copied our style Nabani Das Khyapa Baul style in every way including dance 'Ektara' (Gopi Chand or Gopi Yantra only this lineage) Baya the drum tied around the waist, and his and Purna Das Baul (only) style of ankle bells called Nupoor 'ankle bells encased in metal', our dress, songs, Baul Kirtans and our style of Baul Vaishnava Sahajiya Bhakti Yoga that only comes from this lineage.
Baul tantra even coming out of the woodwork with woodwork, our lineage of Baul no other fake Bauls ever talked about kirtan?
Our songs taken and re-recorded with no permission right off youtube and the radio or past albums recorded only by this lineage. Boldly feeling entitled to take whatever they want, listening to and re-recording, acting out the songs in our style while attributing the whole lot to a fake Baul Guru? Copied right off Babu Kishan's aka Krishnendu Das Bauls youtube channel and off the radio. Without permission they re-recorded our songs, without giving credit, and taking our names off.
They used our stories making them random by random we mean talking the names of the stories off of the Bauls who lived the stories as an example: Even Baul associated with Rabindranath Tagore, Vivekananda, Ramakrishna Mission, Anandamayi Ma, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, the Rolling Stones. When these fake random Bauls had nothing to do with these people, only very specific Bauls with names, their names are Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Purna Das Baul, and Babu Kishan these are their stories to tell, random Bauls did not have anything to do with this Baul history.
If not for Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Purna Das Baul and Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul no random pretendian Baul would have anything to appropriated or reason to steal the intellectual property of this lineage. Don't be fooled, stay away from the cult mentality. Hawkers are hawkers and this is what the hawkers do, they sell Baul as a commodity to gain recording contracts, free press, and trips around the world displaying their wares to anybody who will be sucked in.
This lineage has many firsts and lasts regarding Baul, just watch how they copy and try to present themselves as if they are the ones, while they copy every corner of the indigenous Bauls, this lineages already lived lives, it is not a joke, it is puzzle that I have put together, documented and have proof of, there is a difference between appreciation of indigenous Baul and serious appropriation.
These hawkers take every aspect of the lineage Bauls lives and re-display acting as if they were the one reworking the already lived history of this lineage? They tell you, they are masters and they are going to teach you, and act like they know Baul, they do not, they copied it right from this lineage, Babu Kishan's lifes work. Always waiting for a new song, a new word, a new chapter from a book to teach. I documented on fake Baul listing all the chapters in Babu Kishan's fathers book "Baul Philosophy' advertising the titles of the chapters as to what they will be teaching in workshops? You can not even make this up?
First it is about tone and music, even Indian Cinema, Bauls are monks, Bauls are from Turkey, then Buddhism, then Lalon, then Ramakrishna, Anandamayi Ma when they have not done the work, they are copying Babu Kishan's life, they use any idea of the lived history of this lineage, rework it for social media pictures and claim they are legendary Bauls? I have documented everything on the internet presented by these fake pretendian Baul over 20 years, Babu Kishan has documented all the fakery over 60 years.
If Babu Kishan had not written anything over decades about Baul, they would not know anything about Baul, they would not have a story to claim, because their fake Guru copied everything from this lineage and they feel entitled to do the same without the indigenous or ancestral adhikara, (authentic lineage of Baul, entitlements, competence, or authority) to do so, make no mistake the authority of a lineage or sampradaya only lies within the lineage of Baul. There is no other lineage of Baul, Babu Kishan is the first to ever talk about lineage regarding Baul and then every random wandering fake Baul all of sudden has a fake lineage with a fake Baul Guru. Babu Kishan knew these so-called self-titled Baul Guru's he documented who they are and knows their stories of where they came from, their lineage is a fake lineage and it can be proven.
Hawkers have big smiles, trying to recruit others while saying come and join them? When Baul does not collect people, that should tell you enough? Are they fundraising, or asking for donations, those are the Hawkers, they have made foundations copied word for word from our original first Baul foundation?? Hawkers are idea thieves, they are hunters ready to poach whatever they can, trying to sew it all together a new product to sell?
Hawkers change their methods of acting when one idea does not work they change their directions, maybe they will be tantrics promoting Tara Ma one time, the next they are Bhakti Yogis or associated with Ramakrishna or Anandamayi Ma, when only this lineage has lived this history?
Hawker Bauls call themselves Baul Artists one minute and Baul Masters the next and really how would you know, you would not. Hawker Bauls have a new scheme when the last one didn't work, they keep churning out schemes. Fake Bauls are not the only hawkers today, today throughout Indian spirituality there are hawkers with stories that would blow your mind, yet they have nothing to ground their stories in, just a game.
They give flippant advertising stories and one liners bragging about how much they travel? This is not Baul, and not based on any Baul reality, but in social media pictures and the accumulation of like on social media.
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