THE ONLY OFFICIAL 'BAUL ARCHIVE' of INDIGENOUS ANCESTRAL BAUL

THE ONLY OFFICIAL 'BAUL ARCHIVE' of INDIGENOUS ANCESTRAL BAUL
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Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Roots of any Baul Sahaja is only Vaishnava Baul Sahaja (Sahajiya) are Dattatreya and Krishna/Radha ATMA Lila - NOT 'Buddhist Vajrayana Sahaja

 Buddhist Vajrayana Sahaja or Charyapadas songs have no ROOTS in Baul. KD Babu Kishan (the eldest of  his singular lineage of parampara of Vaishnava Sahajiya Baul) who has preseved, pioneered, researched, documented, debated Baul, as an actual music composer, linguist, indigenous Baul and acedmic, authtic lineage holder for over 60 years his Baul Guru was the last Baul Avadhut Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, he spent 12 years as a Ramakrishna Monk BA MA Calcutta Univeristy. He fundraised for the Ramakrishna Mission for decades. No one can replace Purna Das Baul or claim to be the now Baul Ambassador the arrogance is astonunding, Bauls Samrat Purna Das Baul (Padma Shri) and Baul Ambassador only relates to the history of this lineage which is complete.

There 100% is no Baul Ashram or a Baul Mela in British Columbia, Canada, what a joke. to have a Baul Ashram or Bel Mela you need an actual Baul? I have lived here my whole life. Do not lie or make me laugh, those Western Bauls are not Baul, they have tried for years to steal the intellectula property of this lineage. Be inspired by Baul but don't make people stupid. KD Babu Kishan rejected them decades ago and they hooke with a cosplaying Baul LOL, seriously you can't make this up anymore. If there is a first western Baul a name given by Purna Das Baul personaly to Bob Dylan who obviously could care less, the of course Babu Kishan told Mark Gerhart and Rondha Gerhart they were western Bauls, that is another story. 

I think but can't recall if Purna Das Baul in passing told Jai Uttal and Mark Gerhart in the 1970s they were western Bauls but he did that in passing to many people usually astonished anybody in the West would be interested in Baul. All of these musicians including Krishna Das and many of the Neem Karoli Baba devotees of the 1970s used to come to see Purna Das Baul, Manju Das and KD Babu Kishan wanting to play on their stage when they came to New York for cultural performances, teachings ect... Babu Kishan has known them since then, we dropped into a Krishna Das performance in Vancouver in 2010? I can't remember and Babu Kishan after the chanting took me up to meet Krishna Das, who said, Om my God Babu what are you doing here, you should have told me and we could have jammed, he then said to KD Babu Kishan - you are the real Krishna Das amoung other things, he was puzzled when Babu Kishan introduced me as his wife.. LOL 

The new cosplaying Bauls track this lineage down, right to meeting their friend and associated, then remaking everything Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Baul Samrat Purna Das Baul and KD Babu Kishan lives, seriously you can not make this up. 

The Vaishnava Sahajiya Bauls of Birbhum W Bengal India do not need any saviours, they have self-determining right of their own pioneering first and last history regarding Baul. They do not need any new reworking, remaking or replacing of Baul by cosplayers or social media influencers who are trying to be the next Amma or Sadguru. 


 Jai Uttal and Babu Kishan at JaitUttals home in California 2008 - I took the picture.

Babu Kishan and Krishna Das both were performing at Bhakti Fest in 2010 - Photo by Trishula Sandra Das wife of Babu Kishan - Babu Kishan knew Krishna Das from New York in the 1970s 1980s when they came to do cultrual programs, these were the day Babu Kishan challenged the academic scholars of American Universities.


  
1986 photo taken by Babu Kishan of his friends and Usha Harding of the Kali Mandir Laguna Beach. Not many know this story, they met in the mid 1980s at the Ramakrishna Mission in Hollywood while Babu Kishan and his parents Purna Das Baul, Manju Dasi were visiting as Babu Kishan knew them after 12 years as a monk in Calcutta, always special guests and they would fundraise for the Ramakrishna Missions worldwide when they traveling to each country. It was Babu Kishan who introduced Usha Elizabeth Harding to the Baul in Birbhum, and at the Joy Dev Mela. It was Babu Kishan who introduced her to the Dakinishswar Temple in Calcutta, using his privilege as a monk to take her in the back door where she was allowed because of Babu Kishan to take that photo for the cover of her book KALI. 

It was Babu Kishan who encouraged Elizabeth Harding to write that book. It was Babu Kishan then he used his legal name Krishnendu Das Baul to open the Kali Mandir in Laguna Beach as each year he traveled to California for decades. It was Babu Kishan's Indian community who Babu Kishan encouraged to donate to the Kali Mandir. No attribution, no name except Babu. 

The other cosplaying Bauls came later again, retracing, remaking are cosplaying Bauls. Every person Babu Kishan has met has been retraced, remade and cosplayed, even the language he uses as Baul ambassador because they actuall were through the ICCR. Including his 40 years in India Cinema, they open us IMBD accounts shaving done no actual work in Indian Cinema so they too, can claim Babu Kishan work history, Purna Das Baul and Nabani Das Khyapa Baul's lives in a remake so now as they are doing claiming they are the new Purna Das Baul who is in his 90s. Think discern, use your intellect, do your own research rather than follow - that if it looks exotic it must be exotic. Ask do they speak oral Sanskrit? Where they born in Birbhum, are they indigenous to the land?

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 I can see it coming another fundraiser for a jackpot or attention, a hero or heroin self-created way into acting as an authority with absolutely no adhikara in Baul. Another new scheme already debunked creating a image of  false expertise while all the 'first or last' regarding Baul are complete? You will be debated very soon - enough is enough of the indigenous fraud and intellectual indigenous property theft of this lineage by social media influencers.

The entirty of Baul was preserved over 60 years by Krishnendu Das Baul aka Babukishan.org  By creating a new sub-section or lets say a reawaking of a American academic scholars past spectualation that have already been proved wrong by KD Babu Kishan in the 1980s, remaking Baul into something it was not, is indigenous fraud. According to the UN right of indigenous people, only indigenous people have the right to self-determination.

 Baul is complete, its history can not be re-written. How can someone (a cosplaying Baul who uses Baul to travel the world) even know what the roots of Baul are, it can be proved their Baul Guru is in fact not a Baul Guru but a 'fake it til you make it' Baul? 


 


Baul is only Vaishnava Sahaja (Sahajiya) that of Krishna/Radha and Dattatreya the first Sahajiya that of Sahaja Samadhi. 

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 “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 by cosplaying Baul to attain donations, financial jackpots, international travel representing Baul when you are not even indigenous to Birbhum W Bengal. 

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 seen this in academia, and in the western audiences who do not have a clue. They think if one calls themselves a Baul that they are Baul when they actually have no way of knowing, this is the oldest trick in India, self-titling onself a sadhu, tantric, yogic, swami when one is not even close. They put on the costume, throw a few terms around, build an akhara or ashram then a website and travel the world scamming people. 

The west and now in India thinks if it looks exotic and is armed with a list of Gurus, and if it sweetly smiles, no absolutely NOT, whether their lineage is fake, their style and songs are appropriated, unless you are an expert on Baul there is no way you can know. Before the computer and modern times one would be tested in the Indian traditional systems as to their authority through debate, questions, however, today no one knows the questions to even ask. 

Well Babu Kishan knows the questions, he has extensive experience throughout India testing, debating the spiritual heirarchy on their knowledge and wisdom he was trained in Mimansa Philsophy which means reflection or critical investigation,  Purna Paksha literally means the former position or the oppenents view.  Western style is called exegesis, the critical explanation, analysis, or interpretation of a written text to discover its original and intended meaning. Exegesis says very little about speculating what you think it is about what is the truth. Babu Kishan has been trained in both systems and one of his life mentors was a historical Supreme Court of Calcutta and Bombay Judge, it was their play to travel around testing all these so called Gurus as to hope much they actually knew, so not only has the eductation in both the Indian and the Western systems, he has major experience even learning the legal system.

There was a time he knew most of the major Guru's and composed music for many of them and many temples all over India, his music was heard in temples all over India. He knows and has adhikara authority regarding Baul (Vaishnava Sahajiya Baul). Some used to think of him as a snob, but there were no shishya's worth taking on as students, nobody even knows the questions to ask, he has very little patience for stupidity, you have to do the work first, not come and out of the blue ask him if he can be your Guru, the answer will always be no. 

KD Babu Kishan can see who you are, he is not what you see as Guru out there today and he certainly is not what you see as Baul today, he says they are all fake even more about the popular ones bragging what they are going to preserve and how many countries they have traveled to by using Baul as their ticket to ride duping people as they go? Duping the India government for awards... Trying to replace Purna Das Baul by using all of his historical significance in a remake, no way.

When a sacred song, medicine, or teaching is taken out of its traditional lineage, it loses its spirit or in this case Baul its 'essence' the (Shakti that has been passed down for hundreds of years). In India Ancestral Puja is one of the most important worships to be done, their ancestors are important. 

Regarding Baul ancestry is important, the new wave of cosplaying Bauls has no ancestry in Baul as has been seen all they know how to do is poach from this lineage or guru shishya parampara sampradaya of at the very least 13 generations. Vaishnava Sahajiya Tantric Baul the path of the Avadhut is hundreds of years older and way before the preachers of Gaudiya Vaishnavism. Baul does not preach they are Baul Gurus who teach, pandits Gosia Chandra Das Baul and Dasi. Make no mistake no one would know about Baul or be interested in Baul without the pioneering work and historical significance of this lineage or parampara.

"Reading academic papers on the Charyapadas does not make someone a Baul. Real Baul is not an extinct Buddhist experiment pieced together by modern researchers; it is a living Vaishnava Sahajiya lineage rooted in the soil of Birbhum since at least the 12th century with Poet Jayadeva of Kenduli. Those who try to strip the Radha-Krishna Tattva and Nityananda-paramparā out of the tradition to call it 'Vajrayana' are simply trying to invent an exotic persona to bypass authentic initiation and family lineage." 

Sahajiya Roots, this one and only lineage is the Sahajiya Roots of Baul whether that be Krishna, Dattatreya or Vajrana Budhhism where it is said Nityananda in Vaishnava of Bengal 1486 -1900 by Ramakanta Chakravarti stated that Nitai converted many Buddhists into Vaishnava Sahajiya. It must be stated that Bauls do not convert people and secondly they did not speak Pali. Thirdly, Babu Kishan has already preserved every type of Sahaja that the Bauls were in the Baul tradition whether that be Vaishnava, Shakti or Buddhist Sahaja. Regarding the ailing on the Sea of Love: The Music of the Bauls of Bengal Babu Kishan knew Charles well in Bengal and in America. He disagrees with him regarding his book.

"Why Baul Sahaja is not Buddhist Sahaja and Baul is not related to the - Charyapadas, that has already been debunked and is in the triology series on historical Baul. 

The only root of Sahaja (Sahajiya) regarding Baul is that of Krishna/Sahaja and Dattatreya Sahaja as in Sahaja Samdhi - Dattatreya comes thousands of years before Buddha.

Baul has not roots in Buddhist Sahaja or Charyapadas, Baul did not speak Pali 

Bauls do not follow Carapadas as stated by Charles Capwell, how did he draw these conclusions as he has no self-determinion rights to draw such a conclusion or adhikara as an outsider to draw these conclusions or self-determine of who indigenous Baul is? 


Krishnendu Das aka Babu Kishan gives a strong no to Baul in relation to Bengali Charyapadas and Buddhist Sahaja, he say people especially the cosplaying Bauls you see today have no clue, they just throw out there and hope it stick, one more fundrasing for a financial jackpot scheme? Babu Kishan does not care what a academic scholar or a fake cosplaying Bauls new angle is.

 

Bauls do not follow Carryapada philosophy, one have to see if the person now saying they are going to preserve this regarding Baul actually has any adhikara (authority) is their Guru a Baul Guru - 100% NO, they are myth makers to collect international travle and students donations? This is completely a false narrative consisting of personal speculation. Babu Kishan had already strongly opposed Charles Capwell's speculations regarding Baul in the 1980s. Charles thought Baul would never speak or read English or read his academic book on Baul. KD Babu Kishan could and he strongly rejected what Charles wrote about Baul. Babu Kishan has read all what scholars wrote, journalists and strongly reject your self-determination on who Baul is, and who his lineage is. When you think that an indigenous people are illiterate you can write and denigrate them, but when they become educated in your system you no longer can get away with gross mischaracterizations and speculations?"

 

The dilemma is, we now have an 'opportunistic Baul claimant' who is a cosplayer Baul, once again trying to preserve Baul, however, this time claiming the roots of Baul Sahaja is Buddhist Sahajiya. Others have stated this previously not knowing that this is completely wrong.

 

The Historical Trilogy of Baul books explain ,why. It is a big long historical story as to why Baul is not Buddhist Sahaja. The cosplaying Baul have tried in every direction to fundraise or fishing for a finacial jackpots to preserve Baul, when they are not Baul they are self-title Baul cosplayer Artists and self-titled Baul Masters, there is no such thing in Baul as a Baul Master there never ever has been. One scheme after another?

 

They have made up a fake Guru and fake lineage that has culturally mis-appropriated -songs, style, dance, where this history has gone, traveled to even tracking their friends and accomplishments and repeating them, and now calling themselves the next Purna Das Baul which is an isult to the hightly awarded famous Baul that millions of people used to come out and see, these fake Bauls sing the songs of this lineage, they have approrpriated Nabani Das Khyapa Baul style of dance and they are social media influencers, people today travel to every country world wide. Regarding Baul only this lineage pioneered Baul worldwide, that is an old history a one and only copied by fake Bauls? They are not from a lineage and not indigenous to Bengal, not indigenous to Baul but from a middle class family with a Balderdash – Hogwash – .Claptrap – pretentious, empty talk meant to catch attention without having real substance. Bunkum (or Bunk) – Short, sharp, and directly calls out fabricated claims.

 

Collecting donations, awards, making short youtube videos touching on every aspect of the already 'first and lasts' that have been completely by this lineage over decades if not over hundreds of years. Claiming awards in the name of Baul when you are not Baul, good for you, you traveled only by using this lineage, other than that there is no substance. Remaking us by replacing us and taking our names off. 

 

Why "Pretendians" Push the "Buddhist Vajrayana" Narrative

Modern, academic-sounding poseurs often try to trace Baul tradition strictly back to the Charyapadas and Buddhist Vajrayana for a few specific reasons:

Exotic Appeal: Framing it as "extinct Buddhist Tantra" sounds esoteric and ancient to Western seekers or casual audiences, making it easier to sell workshops, books, and retreats.

Bypassing Lineage (Paramparā): If they claim Baul is an ancient, unstructured Buddhist-Tantric relic, they can bypass real Hindu kul (family) lineages, Guru-Shishya paramparā, and Sanskrit Agamic roots. It allows them to claim they "researched" or "discovered" the path in books rather than being initiated into an unbroken lineage.

Stripping the Bhakti (Devotional) Core: Reducing the path to pure Vajrayana energy mechanics while (kaya-sadhana) strips away the devotional core—Radha-Krishna Tattva, Prema, and Rasa—which requires genuine surrender and practice. The core of Baul is ATMA tattva, Atma Lila where is the ATMA in Buddhism? Think about it. Baul (Batula) Vayu Tula means atma, sat chit ananda plus vigraha (form, rupa).

2. The Historical Lineage: Jayadeva of Kenduli (12th Century Birbhum)

To debunk their claims, point to the historical and geographic heartland of Birbhum, West Bengal:

Jayadeva Gosai (12th Century): Long before the late medieval period, Jayadeva of Kenduli (Birbhum) composed the Gita Govinda. This text is the foundational bedrock of Vaishnava Sahajiya. Jayadeva introduced the explicit worship of Radha and Krishna through Parakiya Rasa (divine, unconditioned love outside social convention), which became the core metaphysical framework of the Bauls.

The Soil of Kenduli: The annual Kenduli Mela in Birbhum—held on the banks of the Ajay River at Jayadeva's birthplace—is historically recognized as the central gathering place for genuine Vaishnava Bauls. The tradition's root is explicitly tied to Jayadeva's Radha-Madhav devotional realization, not a Buddhist monastery.

Pre-Chaitanya Vaishnava Sahajiya Poets: 

Before Chaitanya Mahāprabhu, poets like Chandidas (from Nanoor, Birbhum) and Vidyapati were already writing Vaishnava Sahajiya poetry focused on Rasa, Deha-tattva, and the divine lover (Moner Mānuṣh). Chandidas’s famous declaration—Sabar upar manush satya, tahar upar nai ("Above all is humanity, higher than that is nothing")—is a purely Vaishnava Sahajiya realization.

The Distinction Between Sahaja Concept vs. Vaishnava Sahajiya Lineage

While it is true that the word Sahaja ("innate" or "spontaneous") was used by Buddhist Siddhacharyas in the Charyapada, using the same Sanskrit word does not make the traditions identical:

DimensionBuddhist Vajrayana / CharyapadaVaishnava Sahajiya / Authentic Baul
Ultimate RealityŚūnyatā (Emptiness / Void) and Karunā.Rasa, Prema, and the living embodiment of Radha-Krishna Svarūpa.
Central ObjectDissolution of self into non-duality (Nirvana). No atma.   Experiencing the divine Līlā within the living human body (Deha-tattva) Atma tattva.
Theological RootTantric Buddhist Lineages.Jayadeva, Chandidas, Nityananda Prabhu, and Virabhadra Gosvāmī.
Geographic CoreBroad Pala Empire monastic centers. Birbhum, West Bengal (Kenduli, Ekachakra, Nanoor). They never spoke Pali or English.

How Nityananda Vaishnava Sahajiya Baul Avadhut - Avadhut is always Dattatreya Sahaja, he was the first Sahaja - Anchored the Lineage

When Nityananda the Vaishnava Baul Avadhut  (born in Ekachakra, Birbhum) and his son Virabhadra Gosai organized the tradition in the 16th century, they did not "convert to Buddhism." They absorbed wandering ascetics into the protection the Vaishnava Baul lineage as Seva always did, they fed, helped, and loved people who were persucuted, they did not become those people. Love, Serve and Feed people.

Nityananda’s movement established that;

The human body is the temple of the divine (Deha-tattva): Divine love (Prema) transcends caste and ritualistic orthodoxy. The ultimate goal is discovering the Māner Mānuṣ (the Person of the Heart) through Rasa—which is entirely rooted in Vaishnava cosmology.

 Baul has been preserved for over 60 years by Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan) and his lineage for 13 generations at the very least. No outsider can preserve Baul, that is a fact , it has been proven over and over. Adhikara lies within the lineage, not by outside made up lineages either of one generation based on a poet.

 When the dominant society spreads that distorted version, the original community is erased and marginalized because their true practice is no longer recognized—even by their own youth who grow up seeing only the mainstream caricature. 

Krishna/Radha and Dattatreya Sahaja regarding Baul are copyrighted, only to preserve the integrity. 

Jayadeva of Kenduli (12th-century Birbhum, West Bengal) composed the Gītā Govinda, establishing the core philosophical, aesthetic, and energetic bedrock of the Vaishnava Sahajiya path centuries before the formalization of Gaudiya orthodoxy.

While academic scholars often analyze the Gītā Govinda strictly as classical Sanskrit court poetry, the living paramparā of Birbhum recognizes it as an esoteric manual of Deha-tattva (bodily truth), Rasa-sādhana (refinement of divine emotion), and Parakīyā-bhāva (unconditioned love).

Key Pillars: How the Gītā Govinda Founds Vaishnava Sahajiya

The Elevation of Rādhā over Kṛṣṇa (Prādhānya) - Birbhum is Radhadesh and Baul is the path of Radha from the land called Rarh (red soil). 

In classical Vedic literature, the masculine deity is treated as the primary source. Jayadeva reversed this hierarchy. In the Gītā Govinda, Kṛṣṇa actively seeks out Rādhā, surrenders to her emotional state, and begs to place her feet upon his head to cool the fire of separation (Dehi padapallavamudāram).

Sahajiya Reality: This established the fundamental Sahajiya principle that the feminine energy (Śakti / Rādhā-tattva) is the ultimate container of Rasa (divine essence), and the masculine (Puruṣa / Kṛṣṇa-tattva) must become a devotee of that internal feminine power to attain the innate (Sahaja) state.

 The Metaphysics of Parakīyā-bhāva (Unconditioned Love)

The central narrative of the Gītā Govinda revolves around love that exists outside the bounds of conventional marriage, social duty (Svadharma), and societal sanction.

Sahajiya Reality: Sahajiyas do not view Parakīyā as social transgression or mere lust (Kāma). Rather, it represents love freed from societal conditioning, self-interest, and institutional ownership. It is the earthly mirror of the soul's relationship with the divine—spontaneous, uncalculating, and total.

Deha-tattva: The Body as the Sacred Microcosm

Jayadeva explicitly grounds spiritual realization within the sensory, physical embodiment of the lovers—describing breath, bodily temperature, ornamentations, secret meeting places (Kuñja), and physical union.

Sahajiya Reality: Long before later commentators tried to spiritualize or allegorize the text away into abstract metaphysics, the Sahajiya line held that the human body (Deha) is the exact microcosm of the cosmic realm (Brahmāṇḍa). The physical interactions described by Jayadeva are understood as internal energetic alignment (Kāya-sādhana), where the human body becomes the vessel for experiencing eternal Līlā.

 The Transformation of Kāma (Lust) into Prema (Pure Love)

The Gītā Govinda does not deny sensory experience; it refines it. Through the intense heat of separation (Viraha) and union (Milana), dense physical desire (Kāma) is burned away, leaving only pure, unselfish devotional essence (Prema). This is exactly the Vaishnava Sahajiya of this singular lineage of Baul (Vayu Tula).

Sahajiya Reality: This is the precise definition of Sahaja—not the suppression or destruction of natural human senses, but their transmutation into divine realization right inside the physical vessel.

Comparative Framework: Textual Layer vs. Esoteric Sahajiya Realization

Element in Gītā GovindaExoteric / Literary InterpretationInternal Vaishnava Sahajiya Realization
Rādhā & Kṛṣṇa  Mythological figures or allegories of the soul and God.   The living, internal polarity within every human body (Śhakti and Puruṣa).
The Kuñja (Arbor/Grove)A physical forest location in Vrindavan. The internal lotus centers (Chakras) and the secret          space of the heart (Hṛdaya).
Viraha (Separation)Dramatic emotional distress in poetry.  The intense internal heat (Tapas) that purifies the channels (Nāḍīs) for energy movement.
Jayadeva & PadmāvatīA court poet and his temple dancer wife.The foundational dual-practitioners (Sādhaka/Sādhikā) who embodied the path in Kenduli, Birbhum and The Vaishnava Sahaja Bauls.

The Unbroken Continuity to Birbhum

For the Vaishnava Bauls of Birbhum, Jayadeva is not a historical relic of the 12th century; he is the root ancestor who anchored the Gītā Govinda into the very soil of Kenduli. Subsequent figures like Chandidas, Nityananda Prabhu, and Virabhadra Gosvāmī did not invent a new doctrine—they inherited, protected, and expanded the exact Rasa-sādhana that Jayadeva poured into his songs.

 Notice: The historical documentation, biographical details, and lineage archives presented here are the direct intellectual property of KD Babu Kishan. Any reproduction, citation, or adaptation without explicit attribution and authorization is strictly prohibited. babukishanproductions@gmail.com 

Only Babu Kishan had a lasting relationship with Allen Ginsberg over 2 decades, and a friendship (working relationship) with Bob Dylan as he is the person who released all of Bob Dylans music in India and Asia in the 1980s. He used to talk to Bob Dylan on the phone and performed in his USA tour in 1985 singing the one and only Baul song that Allen Ginsberg wrote about Baul as a gift to Babu Kishan. Allen Gisberg was traveling with tour at the time Babu Kishan was there, Babu already knew The Band and they jammed every night.
 
Rhonda Gerhart, KD Babu Kishan, Mark Gerhart Das Baul early 2000s- the only Western Bauls who learned a drop about Baul from KD Babu Kishan, Babu Kishan is not in hiding, he is recalibrating getting ready for the release of his Triology on Historical Mystic Baul. Babu Kishan is not easy going, he may appear easy going from time to time, however, he is intense and more serious by the day, he is a mystic and can see what is going on behind him. He is like his Guru Nabani in so many ways very serious and intense about his sadhana and historical parampara.

The last  Baul Avadhut Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, there are no Baul Avadhuta running around Birbhum, there are only fake cosplaying unitiated Bauls or villagers who sing this lineages songs, the songs were created to teach the villagers, they were not made for non-inidgenous cosplaying Bauls to collect people, remake and retrace this lineage, take their names off and steal the intellectual property in a cosplay as a social media influencer making new claims everyday. Debates will be open and happen soon.

Nityananda of Ekacharkar Birbhum Nityananda Gosia Das Baul Avadhut, the speculating is over, he was a Shaiva Avadhut, a Vaishnava Avadhut and a Brahma Avadhut as Baul is (Vayu Tula) not vatula or any of the other wierdly constructed translations, such as afflicted by the wind or a Ayuvedic wind disease. How about you call yourself those thing, how woud you like it if Baul self-determined who you are. I bet you could not take it, well then you haven't met Babu Kishan or heard what he really thinks, time is ticking you will soon. And I don't want to hear you cry mommy, he hurt my feelings. Baul is the opposite of woke, it is radical truth.

This comes from BabuKishan.com 1990's - 2006 the first Baul website now defunct, everybody copied everything looting his site including the things in it that were wrong, repeated again and again by cosplayer Bauls as in Baul is of 4 or 5 types aul sai dervish fakir (basically all Muslim) terms wrongly copied to BabuKishan.com by Mary Johnson - who was the web designer web master who ran that website. Babu Kishan was busy in bollywood to check and now a cosplayer Baul repeats that. It was also, copied by the compiler of Babu Kishan's fathers book from Babu Kishan's notes left in Calcutta without permission? The truth is coming out. I have kept notes on everything for 20 years, it is all in my files. So when Fake cosplayers try to be Babu Kishan displaying themselves as authentic copying his style of teaching at Univeristies when you are not a Baul but repeat - Baul is of 4 or 5 types at Berkley and on social media, you left a trail of fakery.

 



 The first and Lasts, can never be copied and remade in any effort to replace this lineage.

The first Baul to speak English, the first Baul to attain a BA and MA from Calcutta Univeristy, the fist Baul to creat a template for indigneous Bauls to travel the world, the first Baul to be a monk in the Ramakrishna order for 12 years and teach at Universities throughout India and worwide. The Baul who invented Baul Fusion 2 decades before others are claiming. The first Baul to work in Indian Cinema on all levels including as a Music Composer. The list is long including the first and only Baul to preserve this lineage, record it, document it both indigenously and academically.

 

Key Baul Figures & Lineage

#NabaniDasKhyapaBaul #PurnaDasBaul #BabuKishan #KrishnenduDasBaul #lineagebaul #baullineage #NabaniDasBaul #dasbaul #NityanandaofEkachakra #ChandiDas #Joydev #GosaiVaishnavaDasBaul ##NeemKaroliBaba #baulparampara


Core Baul Concepts & Philosophy

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


Geographic & Cultural Context

#BirbhumBaul #Birbhum #EkachakraBirbhum #Tarapith #TarapithandBaul #TaraMa&Baul #Kolkata #Shantiniketan #shantiniketanbirbum #Bengal #baulofbengal #baulofbirbhum #India #IncredibleIndia #indianmusic #sangeetnatakakademi


Critique & Preservation

#Baultruth #Baulculturalappropriation #Baulrealhistory #EndangeredBaullineage #Baulendangeredlineageparampara #Baulhistory #baularchive #archivedbaul


Baul Music

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


Related Figures & Movements

#RabindranathTagore #BaulTagore #osho #VaishnavaBaul #TantricBaul #vaishnavaaghori #Ramakrishna #BaulandRamakrishna


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" 
  • #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

  • #India #lineagebaul #baultantra #baullineage #baulofbengal #babukishan  #baulwomen #baulavadhuta #baulsaint #legendarybaul  #nabanidasbaul  #mirrorofthesky  #rabindranathtagor  #osho  #vaishnavabaul  #vaishnavaaghori #baul #baulmusic  #tantra  #babukishan  #baulgaan  #nabanidasbaul  #purnadasbaul  #bengal  #india  #indianmusic #shantiniketan  #baullineage #bengalibaul  #baularchive  #archivedbaulbn#Baulhistory #BaulofBengal  #BaulofBirbhum #dasbau#Kolkata  #Bauldocumentary  #baulkirtan  #Baulsadhana  #ektara  #EkachakraBirbhum  #gopiyantra   #baultantra #NabonidasKhyapabaul  #bauldocumentary  #baulsangeet   #RabindranathTagore  #BaulTagore  #shantiniketanbirbum #jainitai  #jaiguru  #NityanandaofEkachakra  #BaulAvadhut  #Birbhum  #Tarapith  #Kolkata  #IncredibleIndia  #India #VaishnavaBaul  #TantricBaul   #sangeetnatakakademi 


    Va

  • "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&Tantra 

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

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