https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2026/08/formal-notice-of-intellectual-property.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2026/08/roots-of-vaishnava-baul-sahaja-sahajiya.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2026/08/academia-vaishnava-sahajiya-baul.html
The Trilogy of The HISTORICAL Autobiography of Vaishnava Baul will be released soon. This piece on Baul Music is a short version, the long version will be released in the trilogy on Baul (Vayu Tula) copyright.
Every post, every word in the Trilogy of Baul or in Purna Das Bauls book on Baul Philosophy, or that came from BabuKishan.com the first Baul website copied by over 1 million people from the 1990s to 2006 is copyrighted. The website has been defunct since 2006 however, to this day cosplaying Bauls are still repeating what they read off his website?
Copyright, no poaching, repeating on youtube or using in papers, articles without permission. contact: babukishanproductions@gmail.com
“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.
To protect the integrity of this Lineage (Pramapara) I am releasing some important parts of this lineage before they can be poached by pretendian as Babu Kishan calls Baul Hawkers. Here presented is a drop of the Ocean of this singular Lineage of Parampara of recorded 13 generations that go back to the origins of the story.
This lineage made Baul known, made Baul famous, that is why jackpot fundraisers, donation gathers, and cosplayer sold people that they were Baul for international travel and a business for cosplaying Bauls was created while they rode on the coattails of this lineage following them everywhere they went, even contacting their friends. I have documented all of this over 20 years, Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan) has lived this for over 60 years, he knows each and every Baul where they came from and if they are Baul or not. He has preserved Baul for over 60 years and has watched a total destruction left in the wake by fakery of Baul.
This lineage as indigenous people never protected their intellectual property until recently. The time of poaching Baul saying you are the next Purna Das Baul who is a famous one and only first and last Baul singer now in his 90s is insideous claim, claiming you are the new Baul ambassador, a name coined by Babu Kishan with a big story is outrageous.
Copyright: This is a reclamation and a Copyright notice, the owner of anything on this blog is serious in this matter, because all of his songs, and past writing have been poached. Names taken off, intellectual property stolen and used without any attribution. Fake lineages, fake Baul Guru created, fake initiation presented.
This lineage are not the cosplaying Baul Artists or self-titled Baul Masters, there is not a such thing as a Baul Master, they are like dogs marking their territory replacing us by remaking us. How - by copying everything this lineage has ever done as a first or last in Baul, but following them around the world, going to all areas that they have already completed as Baul history and re-enacting this lineages history, through their songs, kirtans, stories, the Baul tattva's that Babu Kishan categorized into English of which there are 108 thank the Goddess he never released them all. The book will release many secrets we are watching to see who takes part of it and claims it, the days are over of relentless poaching of the indigenous intellectual property of this singular lineage or parampara of Baul.
Do not superimpose anything in this blog onto any cosplaying self-titled Baul Artists or Baul Masters there is no such thing, Baul is indigenous and nobody in India or outside of India would know anything about Baul without this lineage. What is in this blog or this lineages songs are all under copy right now. Baul Masters are Cosplayer Bauls, This parampara of Baul are not what you see as social media influcener Baul of today, again if you are here to super impose this singular one and only Lineage of Baul overtop of any cosplayer Baul nothing here in this Blog relates to the cosplaying Baul Masters.
EKtara (Gopi Yantra) Baya drum tied around the waist, and Nupoor are only Nabani Das Khyapa Baul style of this singular lineage, the dance Bauls songs and Baul Kirtan and Bhakti Yoga have been taught worldwide by this lineage since the 1950s.
In this singular ancient ancestral indigenous traditional Baul-Kīrtan and Sahajiyā lineage, Deha-tattva (literally "body-truth" or the metaphysics of the physical vessel) is not a theoretical philosophy—it is an operational, somatic reality. It rests on the foundational axiom:
"Jā āche brahmāṇḍe, tā āche dehe"
(Whatever exists in the macrocosm/universe exists directly within the physical body.)
In traditional performance, the physical body of the Sādhaka-Kīrtanīyā is treated as the living stage (vrindāvana), the instrument, and the temple all at once. The macrocosm is mapped directly onto the human anatomy through several primary structural layers:
The Body as Sacred Geography (Pīṭha and Bhūmi)
The physical anatomy is understood as an internal geography where cosmic realms and divine pastimes (līlā) are continuously occurring:
The Lower Centers (Material / Earth Realm): Associated with the physical functions, physical birth, and the unrefined, instinctual drive (kāma).
The Heart Center (Hṛdaya-padma): The threshold where gross emotion transforms into refined devotional mood (bhāva).
The Crown / Upper Center (Sahasrāra / Goloka / Vrindāvana): The highest internal realm where the non-dual union of the divine masculine and feminine principles (Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa or Puruṣa-Prakṛti) resides in eternal repose.
During a sacred dance, the singer’s internal focus moves through these centers. The music is designed to pull energy upward from the base to the crown, turning the performance space into a physical manifestation of internal cosmic geography. The dance is an earth dance which is similar to many other indigenous traditions. The dance is not a mosh pit dance of the modern Vaishnavism originating from the west. The Baul dance is an indigenous dance not what you see today in cosplayer Baul or new age Vaishnavism. There is a deep method to this singular parampara's dance which was part of Baul before the Gaudiya Vaishnava movement.
The Four States and Four Vessels (Cāri-Chānd)
To understand how the macrocosm operates inside the body, the tradition divides human existence into four distinct internal levels or "moons" (Cāri-chānd):
In Baul-Kīrtan, sound is not merely acoustic vibration designed for an audience's entertainment or a type of congregational chanting; it is a physical catalyst designed to alter internal physiology: It is a Tantric transmission a serious sadhana where one needs initiation to lead a Vaishnava Sahajiya Kirtan or any Kirtan for that matter, Kirtan is not merely group chanting.
Kirtan is the roots of Kirtan which originates on the soil of Birbhum W Bengal.
Vaishnava Sahajiya Kirtan is not what you see today in the West which is now imported to India. Vaishnava Baul Kirtan roots only lie in the singular lineage origniation from Birbhum W Bengal the soul and soil of Rarh (red soil) and the land of Radha, Rarh-desh and Radha-desha.
It is astounding that a cosplayer Baul would tell you, they are coming to West to teach Baul Bhakti Yoga and Baul Kirtan because no other Bauls ever have, a complete lie. While Babu Kishan and his family have been doing that since the 1950s, this is their legacy and their indigenous ancestral history.
The cosplayers did not even know anything about Baul Kirtan, until hey read it here or copied the intellectual property of Babu Kishan's youtube and we have analytics proof and his families writings. The twisting Baul history, laying claim what does not belong to them will be called out and debated publically soon. No more sitting on the sidelines watchint the systemic intellectual property theft.
The Breath (Prāṇa): The voice is fueled by controlled abdominal breathing centered in the lower Dan Tiān or Mūlādhāra/Svādhiṣṭhāna area. By controlling the breath rate through rhythmic singing, the singer calms the internal subtle winds (vāyu).
Vibration and the Nerves (Nāḍī-śuddhi): The resonance of specific rāgas and sustained vocal tones vibrates the spine and brain, clearing energetic channels (nāḍīs).
Transforming Kāma into Prema: The core goal of Deha-tattva performance is internal alchemy—using the heat (tāpa) generated by intense musical rhythm and devotion to distill raw desire (kāma) into unselfish, divine love (prema).
The Performance Space as Living Ritual
When a Baul steps onto the stage with an Ektārā or Khōl (drum), every physical action mirrors internal anatomy: the first Baul to sing on a stage was Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and the first Baul to use Ektara (Gopi Yantra) Baya drum ties around the waist, with Nupoor style ankle bells was Nabani Das Khyapa Baul. What you see is a cosplay of this lineages instruments and songs today. Babu Kishan made the Khol (drum) famous regarding Baul in India and Internationally.
The Instruments as Body Extensions: The Ektārā (one-stringed instrument) represents the central spinal column (Suṣumnā nāḍī) and the singular focus on the non-dual truth. The two heads of the Khōl drum represent the dual forces of nature (Puruṣa and Prakṛti / sound and rhythm). The drone of the Ektara or Gopi Yantra is usually OM, their feet hitting the ground in dance are a prayer to Prakriti of Bhumi Ma.
Movement and Dance: The rhythmic stepping and spinning (nṛtya) during high-energy Saṅkīrtan are designed to open the physical joints, release physical tension (song), and allow the subtle energy to circulate without blockage so that the Baul Essence or live wire Shakti can flow as a Baul Darshan to the people who are partaking in this sadhana. They do not spin to show off their dread locks, Bauls do not have dread locks except for the Baul Avadhut and Nabani Das Khyapa Baul was the last Baul Avadhut, there are no more Baul Avadhuts only people who are trying to cosplay Nabani Das Khyapa Baul. Today, this is a gimick to attract people, thinking oh wow how exotic. I remember Bhagavan Das telling me, it is spiritual materialism because in todays world as Nabani used to say to, when you are deep in sadhana traveling in the mountains they did not have showers back them. Bauls always had long hair that they kept clean and gathered in a top not on top of their heads.
Kritans go on for days and days, if you ever lied down on the floor which I have seen in western kirtans or were not present, Nabani Das Khyapa Baul would kick you out, you are doing a deep sadhana not having a sleep.
Baul Kirtan is a serious Sadhana (practice) not for the uninitiated. Today, it can be modified for the uninitiated but what I have seen in the west is not kirtan, it is more like Christian congregation singing and chanting.
Ultimately, in traditional Baul-Kīrtan, the singer does not sing about God in a distant heaven. Through Deha-tattva, the singer uses the body as a micro-cosmic laboratory to bring the divine reality down into the flesh and bone of the present moment. They sing the the stories of Krishna and Radha, the stories of Ram and Sita with chanting. Kirtan is not church congregational low energy singing and chanting, it is a high energetic fire sadhana.
Very rare in the west and now in India.
Nabani Das Khyapa Baul is the first Baul ever to sing or dance singularly on stage, then Padma Shree Baul Samrat Purna Das Baul and then Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan) they are the first and last of everything that is modern Baul over more than a hundred years.
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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 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.
(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
"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
"Baul Sahaja is Krishna & Dattatreya Sahaja". Copyright and only mentioned by KD Babu Kishan
The Windcatchers (Vayu Tula). #BaulVayuTula. #baulwindcatchers
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