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Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Kepa, Khepa and then Khyepa. It was only Babu Kishan who spelled Kepa (KHYAPA) he told me to spell it that way for a reason!

 Vultures waiting to pick the bones off of this already lived and completed Baul history and her-story has increased over the past 30 years at least to an intellectual property theft issue.

Indigenous Fraud, Indigenous Identity Theft!

https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2025/02/indigenous-identity-theft-indigenous.html

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There is no such thing as a Baul Master? This is a made up term by Pretendian Bauls who are using Baul with fake Baul Guru's, while using the songs of this lineage, and their style, following them around the world and everything they have already completed?

 This lineage pioneered Baul from the villages of Birbhum to all of Bengal, to all of India, and globally in all ways. This lineage (indigenous ancestral) Sampradaya is the first of anything Baul, you can not rework history and take the names of this lineage off, making them random and generic and then claim you did everything they had already completed as history decades ago? There is no other, it is all made up, there is no such thing as a Baul Master, these types of lies have led to cultural genocide of Baul. Pretendian Bauls hand out false narratives daily. 

 Babu Kishan has already preserved Baul over a 60 years period, it is complete, it has been done. Do not donate to those who are asking for donations to preserve Baul they can not preserve Baul, first they are not indigenous to Baul, 2nd Baul has already been preserved. 

Babu Kishan's book is done, it will be released within months and you can be sure he does not hide anything. It is time to stop the fakery, chaos, confusion and the astronomical appropriation, and cultural intellectual property theft, that fake pretendian Bauls have manifested. A major reason why authentic Baul is extinct and this is called cultural genocide, when a culture of the ground of the soil and soul is replaced by outsiders posing as Baul, handing out false narratives of course it disappears, the marginalized Bauls names are deleted and replaced by fake Baul Gurus and fake lineages. This can and will be proved and qualified one by one. First there has never been a thing called Baul Master, there is no such thing?

"No poaching by pretendian Bauls or people who using this indigenous ancestral lineages, songs, stories, style, where they go and what they have already accomplished. Thank you, however, Baul is complete it was preserved over a 60 period by Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul. Note: Das Baul and Dasi and Khyapa (kepa, Khepa Baul or Baba) only originate from this lineage. (Ektara, Baya (duggi) drum tied around the waist, and Nuppor ankle bells encased in metal only originate from Nabani Das Khyapa Baul? Baul is not one or two generations based on a poet or random Guru's, it is a long ancestral sampradaya. The copy and paste and the' intellectual theft' of this lineage, and Babu Kishan's songs is astronomical and all will be qualified and reclaimed one by one, those who are Masters at appropriated be for-warned all will be revealed, you can fool some of the people some of the time but not all the people all of time."

Baul is not a Baul artist or Baul master? Baul is not an acting career where you construct a whole Baul lineage using everything from this lineage, their songs and style, where they go and what they have already completed? That is not the way an oral Sanskrit, ancient lineage works, that is not how an Sampradaya works. 

Baul is not a 'fake it til you make it' career or 'riding on the coattails' of everything this lineage has already completed. 

Baul history is complete it is impossible rework Baul and take credit through unverified stories coming if you are from a middle class life, just because you became interested in Baul and decided you liked Baul, so you would sing some Bauls songs and start to travel in the footsteps of this lineage? 

Baul is indigenous to the soul and soil of Birbhum West Bengal India, to a particular soil meaning indigenous after a long period of time in an ancestral lineage of people who lived it, preserved. However, this does not mean you can not follow Baul, many have for generations, but they have not ridden on the coattails of everything this lineage has done so completely that it is obvious what the game is

Only the indigenous people of that land who are Baul have a right to self-determine who they are, not you just because you decided to make up a new lineage based on a one generation poet, that is not how it works. This lineage only introduced Baul to all of Bengal (it can be proven) then all of India and then pioneered Baul worldwide, they did all the work, while others have taken their names off and replace their already lived and documented Baul history, but yet some pretendian Baul called Baul Masters and Baul artists which never existed only Baul Guru existed, they will morph and change their stories for self-promotion. 

I have noticed an obvious poaching and false teachings regarding Baul, and documented all the changes over the past 18 years, it is beyond belief the fakery going on? Babu Kishan always encourages others, what he didn't expect was a complete cultural appropriation and actor Bauls who have twisted and reworked Baul? 

This one and only lineage of Baul aka Guru Shisya parampara Sampradaya is based on (ancestry the ancestors who preserved, held and lived Baul for at least 13 generation documented ancestry to the 11 the 12 century. 

They lived Baul and introduced Baul to all of Bengal in a big way through Nityananda of Ekachakra's best friend Sri Chaitanya. Then to all of India through Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and pioneered Baul worldwide through Purna Das Baul and Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul. 

Today their names are taken off and others are insinuating they did everything, no they did not they copied and used this lineage, their songs, style and where they went and what they already accomplished.

 Names such as Rabindranath Tagore, Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Pranab Mukerjee, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Ramakrishna, Vivekanda, the Ramakrishna Mission, Gaudiya Math, and Osho are only associated with this lineage, not and never with any fake pretendian Bauls oroutsiders who are ' so called know it alls' who do not know the actual story of OSHO and how he only relates to Nabani and Babu Kishan. These stories were lived by this family not by the name dropping fake Bauls, who tell and use the above names as their story when they did not live the stories. Bauls have names, use their names. The cult of personality in Baul is rampant and they are competitive and tricky actors.

This lineage were major fundraisers for these the Ramakrishna mission worldwide only because of this lineages part in the Ramakrishna Mission. Why, because Babu Kishan was a monk for 12 years in the Ramakrishna mission. Babu Kishan is only Baul who taught at Universities around the world as a paid lecturer on not just Baul but Indian Philosphy, Sanskrit and Indian Music, no other Baul is even qualified to teach at a University? Ask yourself, why is it advertised that they are teaching at Univeristy, but never did the work and are not qualifed because they are teaching false teachings, again we have all the proof. Why are the fake Bauls tryint to pretend they are part of Indian Cinema (Bollywood) when it is only Babu Kishan who had a career in Bollywood for 40 years, it makes no sense? Did they attend the Ramakrishna Mission, no it is just another attempt to mark territory to claim awards. They tell stories like, oh my mommy, this is garbage bull shit to piss all over the cultural property that belongs to this lineages Baul history already completed. Nope, it will all be exposed and all is documented. 

One by one they are trying to cover everything Babu Kishan has already accomplished, the question is Why? I will tell you, to enter the lucrative Baba and Ma business, to collect donations, to fundraise for a jackpot, to start another cult of personality, to touch their feet. Baul has been used enough, it is time to clear the air.

What has already been accomplished is Baul history, but why act and pretend you are the one, tracking and redoing everything this lineage has completed, presenting it as if you are the one and the first and the only legendary, when in fact you are not even a Baul, you may be inspired by Baul, however, to take their names off and replace their names by someone who is not Baul but copied everything this lineage did, a lineage is a long line not one or 2 generations based on a poet or a random?

The truth of how this lineage has been used and abused, the lying of fake lineages and fake Baul Guru's who were mere copiers of everything this lineage has completed has pushed me to now tell stories of how this so called fake Baul Guru was jealous and tried to poison Babu Kishan's father and almost succeeded at the Joy Dev Mela, making it so that it was too dangerous for this lineage to attend anymore. This will be in the book, I have given away too much already, everything must be copyrighted because of how many steal the intellectual property of this lineage, take their names off and rework it as if they know, this is they have poached the history of this lineage? 

We have proof, right down to the advertising they do and trying to align themselves with everything this lineage has already completed even trying to be associated with Babu Kishan's 40 years career in Indian Cinema, Ramakrishna, just everything without giving credit poaching, watching waiting for new information so they can morph to be a Baba or Maa, next they will add Maa to their names and wear Vaishnava tilika and proclaim their love for Krishna?? Baul is not learn it as you go and morph as you go? One minute Baul is from Turkey the next it is from Persia, one minuet Baul is Buddhist now your are Radha or Krishna the constant spreading of false narratives and inconsistencies, trying to be inclusive and include everything others have said is not Baul?

There is no such thing as Baul Master or Baul Artist, never ever, with Baul extinct it is wrong to change the unchangeable. Baul is not changeable at this point all the indigenous Baul can do is preserve their history accurately without speculations by outsiders. Baul history is complete and has been unchangeable for decades. Yet these fakes and colonized academics completely create false narratives, no other indigenous people on the planet would allow this, the United Nations has determined that no one has a right to self determine any indigenous people except the indigenous people, indigenous people are the people of the land, Bauls are only indigenous and synergistic to Hindu Sanatan Dharma. Sorry Bauls are not Muslim, aul, sai, dervish, or Fakir and if you knew anything you would know this is true, the problem is nobody has understand and then they speculate creating chaos and confusion. I have written a whole chapter on this in Babu Kishan biographical history book on Baul explaining with proof.

 I know this may sound crazy to many of you, but this is exactly what is happening and has happened, to this one and only ancestral indigenous LINEAGE or Sampradaya. Everything has been documented by myself over an 18 year period and over 60 years regarding Babu Kishan, all with proof, will be revealed, enough is enough.

The Vaishnava Sahajiya Tantric Bauls of Birbhum became famous by this lineage and Baul became known only through the hard work of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Purna Das Baul and Babu Kishan. If not for their pioneering work regarding the songs of this lineage of which 80% of Purna Das Baul songs were produced by Babu Kishan including alot of his own poetry that has been poached and the poetry of this lineage? 

This lineages style, dress, dance, stories and instruments and it should be known Nabani Das Khyapa Baul is the first Baul in the history of Baul to sing on stages then Purna Das Baul. Nabani's style Ektara (Gopi Yantra), Baya (duggi) the drum tied around his waist, and his own style of ankle bells (nupoor) enclosed in metal were appropriated, their songs, style and what they have already completed as history as a documented lived history. You can not remake and act as them or compete with Purna Das Baul that history is complete. This lineage has been been over appropriated. This is intellectual property theft, the first tenant of Baul is tell the truth, Bauls are truth talkers. Interesting, when new fake lineages and Baul Gurus have been made up and acted out. Babu Kishan knows, because he knew everybody, he tried to help many, he didn't expect his work and what he himself have accomplished would be tracked and used by other who have not done the education at the University level to teach at Universities, who have not put in 12 years living in the Ramakrishna Mission to teach at the Ramakrishna Mission, he fundraised at the Ramakrishna  for decades for them around the world, he taught Baul to them because he was a monk in the RamaKrishna Mission for 12 years, he is the only Baul and his Grandfather Nabani Das Khyapa Baul knew Vivekananda.

 Babu Kishan never advertised this, he never bragged about this, I am the one who started to talk about RamaKrishna and his association because he had not and I was shocked how others are using all to promote themselves, when he is the only Baul who put in the time and lived it. 

No one would even know, it is just that I have watched over an 18 years period and disgusted at how now that I am writing about some social media pretendian Bauls are peeing and marking their territory over ever single area of Babu Kishan's already lived Baul history?

Now with the book coming out, be prepared because if he doesn't speak about it I will, I am very protective of my husband and know and have seen all the "fake it til you make it' and the non-indigenous Bauls who have only presented themselves as if they are the ones while,'riding on the coattails of the lineage', stealing his intellectual lived property and songs?

Babu Kishan told me to spell Khepa (KHYAPA) as a way to trace who is copying us, now it is spelled that way all over.. LOL Everything Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul and his lineage have pioneered has been copied and reworked as if others are the ones, their songs, style, dress, instruments, where they go and what is already their lived Baul history, you can not even make this up anymore? If you were indigenous to something and it is copied would you not call this intellectual property theft, especially when you songs are stolen and re-recorded for personal fame, with no credit being given. Babu always encouraged all to follow Baul, what he did not expect was more than 80% of his Baul music he recorded to be lifted, the game is to call this lineages songs anonymous, or to say, Bauls don't care who the poets are? Think about if you did all the work for generations, if everything you did was used, reworked and taken credit by outsiders pretendian Bauls posing and using Baul? Think before you react and say, what I am saying is ridiculous, think is someone took all credit for what you ancestors gave their lives for, how would you feel?

 Nabani Das Khyapa Baul was the only Khyapa Baul or Khyapa BABA as the villagers called him, he was never self-titled.

The Vaishnava Sahajiya Tantric Bauls of Birbhum are from (indigneous) the soul and soil (the land) of  Birbhum based on ancestry, their bones are in Birbhum. There is no other lineage and lineage is always based on ancestry, google lineage. This lineage is the only Guru Shisya Prampara Sampradaya regarding Baul, yet somehow they have been made generic and random replaced by others, while this family are the only Bauls who pioneered Baul, they did all the work. They are the only people who pioneered Baul as servants of the villagers for 13 generations and many more before this 13 generations.

This pioneering lineage has pioneered Baul from the villages to Birbhum, to all of India, Nepal and Tibet, then to the world. This is their brain, starting with Nabani Das Khyapa Baul who is the first Baul to ever sing on a stage, then Purna Das Baul in the 1950 when he went to Russia, it is insane what is going on today, how every corner of what this lineage has accomplished is tracked, copied and peed on like an animal marking their territory. 

From everything, their music, to all of Babu Kishan's first for Baul, teaching at Universities, producing music for all the temples of India, to being the only and first Baul to spend 12 years at the Ramakrishna mission as a monk, educating them about Baul and fundraising for the Ramakrishna mission worldwide over 5 decades? Every story taken and make generic from all of this lineages and Babu Kishan's association including a 40 year career in Indian Cinema aka Bollywood, only this lineage had anything to do with Indian Cinema? 

To Babu Kishan's personal stories about Osho, no other Baul ever had anything to do with OSHO only Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and Babu Kishan, however their names are taken off and so-called experts on documentaries are acting like they know?

To stories poached right off this page about Nabani that only Babu Kishan knew, thus they are only stories he can tell.

Here is the lastest a huge insult to Nabani Das Khyapa Baul the only Baul to be called Khyapa Baul and mostly Khyapa Baba. Here is the latest perhaps it has been going on a while, but only I have spelled Kepa - Khyapa on Babu Kishan's suggestion?

If you pay attention long enough, and note the changes people make over time you will understand what I am about to say: 

LineageBaul.blogspot.com - The spelling of kepa / Khepa, was first spelled Khyapa by Babu Kishan, why are others using it this way now, he told me to spell it this way to keep the others who were using it different from Nabani who the villagers of Bengal and Rabindranath Tagore names Khyapa Baul or Bhyapa Baba, now others are picking the bones of this lineage like vultures?

First of all Nabani Das Khyapa Baul is the only Khyapa Baul or Khyapa BABA, Babu Kishan is the first to spell (kepa) Khyapa this way as an experiment to see who is copying us, there is a reason. Never before was Khyapa spelled this way!

His whole website was copied in the 1990 through to 2006, now what we write on lineagebaul.blogspot.com is copied and poached, his songs and songs of this lineage all taken without giving credit.

This is beyond bizarre, his stories and lived association all poached by pretend Bauls and others, stories of his lived experiences about Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, and Osho? No other Bauls or other 'know it alls' had anything to do with these people and no outisders knew the actual stories until I wrote it here first on these blogs? Yet the 'Know it all are name dropping these names and stories of Nabani that could only be known from this blog? Making false associations or suggestions that they know the actual story? All can and will be qualified. Babu Kishan and he is the only Baul in the history of Baul to have been a monk in the Ramakrishna mission for 12 years, now others are using Ramakrishna his hard work and his associations and peeing on every corner of Babu Kishan's lived life to show they too were associated with the Ramakrishna Mission through bizarre stories, did they do the sadhana NO, did they go to University to teach as Universities NO, Did they work in Indian Cinema NO, yet they pee on every corner of Babu Kishan's life, pee on every corner of Purna Das Bauls already lived life, and they pee on everything trying to look like Nabani Das Khyapa Baul using their style, songs and already lived history, they are vultures. you can not even make this up anymore, like animals marking their territory with already lived and peserved stories of this one and only lineage, yet making up fake Baul Guru's and lineages, how can this be and how can people be so ignorant?

Khyapa Baul and Khyapa Baba is only Nabani that is history in that it was Rabindranath Tagore and other personalities including all the villagers of Birbhum who called Nabani that KHYAPA BABA<he is not self-titled.  The spelling Khyapa was suggested to me by Baby Kishan to see who is copying him as all his work, songs and what he is the first in, that has been has been copied, name taken off, and social media fame gained by people who are not even indigenous to Baul?

It was the billagers in Birbhum who caleled Nabani Khyapa Baba not us, not him.Absolutely no one ever spelled it the way that Babu Kishan does, so now why are some using this name spelled the same way? Nabani Das Khyapa Baul is called that because he is the only Baul ever to be initiated by Bhama Kepa of Tarapith and that goes to show the way Khyapa is spelling Birbhum is Kepa or Khepa, so why would anybody copy the odd way Babu Kishan told me to spell it??? Many to see who actually would copy his spelling after having his stories and intellectual property stolen over decades.

The one and only Khyapa Baba or Khyapa Baul Nabani Das Khyapa Baba

Saturday, December 30, 2023

Critique: of the book Sri Aniravan, Letter from a Baul life within life.

SRI ANIRVAN

LETTERS FROM A BAUL LIFE WITHIN LIFE

Compiled by Lizelle Reymond


Indigenous Fraud, Indigenous Identity Theft.

https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2025/02/indigenous-identity-theft-indigenous.html


BabuKishan.org

I have to wonder, did anybody ever read this book and do any sort of exegesis or purva paksha before accepting Sri Anirvan was a Baul? He was a great classically University trained English speaker.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anirvan


Baul is not ever Marxist. Baul is very specific, a Baul is never self-titled.  Narendra Chandra Dhar is not a sur-name for a Baul. The Bengali surname Dhar probably has its origin from “Dhar,” a word which, in Bengali, means “credit.” People with the “Dhar” surname were mostly zamindars or landowners. Bauls were never landowners in this sense or zamindars. 


This is an absolute necessity as there are hundreds of self-titled Bauls today, there are hundreds of documentaries that are vague, hundreds of academic scholars all with a different opinion and many speculations, many many new books, papers, articles and PhDs none of them are accurate. They may have a seed of truth, but when you comb through they are so far off base with mere speculations. 


It is no wonder Baul is extinct, why have Bauls fallen into a cultural genocide and people still keep making it up daily. One day Baul is Buddhist, the next day Baul is Radha. 


The pretendian Bauls have not got a clue, they make it as they usually see what others are doing or writing, making random connections that are not accurate. This has left the door open to constant pretendian experts who are trying to attain fundraising jackpots to preserve Baul, when Baul has already been preserved over 6 decades period by Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das. 


Baul does not collect people? Baul touched other peoples feet, it was a no no for Bauls men or women to enter the villages and have others touch their feet, that is not the Baul tradition and those that are displaying that merely are displaying their arrogance and acting all innocent, what they really want it to be a famous Maa or Baba and to fundraise? These people are using Baul.


There is no such thing as a Baul Master, this is a new construct to include some people who are not Baul, but are using Baul while making up fake lineages?


BabuKishan.org


Copyright all rights reserved, do not copy, poach, or tell these stories on your youtube channel, by name dropping as if you are the expert. 


Stop the cultural theft of Baul songs and stop telling Babu Kishan's stories, they are not yours to tell. Stop lying saying there are 20,000 Baul in Bengal. Baul is extinct and no pretendian Baul can do anything other than copy and create their own personal fame, either trying to be Nabani Das Khyapa Baul stealing his style or trying to be Purna Das Baul (that was a one off) these 2 are history, Baul is complete. Copying Babu Kishan by triying to be a music composer, poet and scholar or trying to be in Indian Cinema?


Do not donate to anybody who is fundraising collecting donations in the name of Baul to preserve Baul. We have already documented other pretendian Bauls false teachings, intellectual property theft, theft of Baul songs from this one and only lineage.


Baul did not sing on stages until Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, as he did for Nehru during the quit Indian movement to draw people to come together to listen to Nehru give his speeches all over India, and this was continued by Purna Das Baul, his wife and eldest song Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul who is the first indigenous Baul to be trained in the indigenous way and the classical way of a University education, he knows the difference. Babu Kishan is the first Baul to preserve Baul for over 60 years in modern times.


It is important to know that no one had an interest or knew about Baul until this family pioneered Baul around India and then worldwide, they were the first and Purna Das Baul songs were all recorded, this is how Bauls have songs to copy, they copied them from the radio.

Lineage ( is always based on a long line of ancestors) google lineage, know your own lineage, your own family, do not go around speculating making up fake lineages based on someone else's lineage? 


Lineage is not one or two generations? It is something you make up based on people who are not from Baul? Regarding Sampradaya there is only one Baul sampradaya it is Gosia Chand Das Baul and Dasi of Ekachakra Birbhum.


Because of the intellectual property theft of dress-up pretendian Bauls and nobody ever speaks out, with made up Baul Guru's, there are absolute distinctions that must be made. First of all Baul is indigenous to Birbhum to the soul and soil of Birbhum. 


 Baul looks simple but it not, it is based on powerful ancestors, it is based on specific qualifying questions that must be answered, it is not a performance of actors and singers or people acting like a Baba or Ma singing the songs of this lineage, that were lifted either from Babu Kishan's youtube channel or from past recordings of Purna Das Baul of which Babu Kishan composed over 80% of his fathers most famed music, this can all be proven and will have to be answered for. 


There is no doubt Anirvan was an intellect, well educated at the best ashrams and Universities, at that time no Baul was educated at a University or even spoke English. The first sign he was not a Baul but perhaps appreciated Baul and added it to his name.


 Do people actually accept that Osho was a Baul, he was not a Baul, he was inspired by Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and mistranslated what and who Baul is in his 3 books, Babu Kishan knew him and qualified, questioned, debated him. Osho told Babu Kishan that he would rewrite his books but he passed before he could, what he created had nothing to do with Baul. The only Bauls that ever knew Osho were Nabani Das Khyapa Baul who only met him and Babu Kishan composed an album and put his lectures on tap when he worked for CBS India, Osho was just another client of Babu Kishan's.


 There are too many acceptances of what and who is Baul, with no actual qualifications going on by anybody who actually knows and has preserved Baul over 60 years, speculation and false narratives by neophyte experts on Baul, it has become a joke, now everybody is getting in on this interview expert bandwagon acting as if they are experts and know who the Bauls are, using Babu Kishan's life stories?


 During the time that Anirvan lived he may have been inspired by Baul many people are but they do not self-title themselves as Baul. Of Course at the time Rabindranath Tagore was initiated into Baul by Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and Tagore added to the popularization of Baul because he was popular at the time.


Anirvan which is not a Baul name must of been inspired by Baul and self-titled himself a Baul showing no actual Baul Guru? 


Authentic Baul in the day never went on vacation, this is coming from a English speaker as I am assuming Arivan was because to go to University in those days, one had to learn English. No indigenous Bauls spoke English back in the day at this time.


Questions to ask: how did a English women speak to Anirvan? She would not know how to speak Birbhum Bengali or oral Sanskrit? Of course she communicated in English, thus, Anirvan spoke English. 


"Madam Lizelle Reymond (1899-1994), a renowned European philosopher, first came to India with her husband Jean Herbert in 1937 in order to deeply explore the Indian culture and heritage. After few years they returned to Europe and planned to translate all the collated materials on Indian Philosophy and religion.


Reymond again came to India in 1947 after Independence and had a lot of experiences (1947-1953), which she admirably described in her two books— ̳My Life with a Brahmin Family‘ (1958) and  ̳To Live Within‘ (1969).


After many years Reymond herself compiled the book  ̳Letters from a Baul‘ from the Part II of the book  ̳To Live Within‘—mostly based on the letters of Sri Anirvan, a poet, philosopher and yogi and the recorded conversations that took place during her staying in the  ̳Haimavati Ashram‘ of Sri Anirvan in Almora;

 also the meetings with Sri Anirvan held in Assam and Bengal. 

She added here two new chapters— ̳Facing Reality‘ and  ̳Rambling Thoughts‘—two essays of Sri Anirvan. There are four more chapters in that book— ̳To Live Within‘, which were excluded by Reymond herself."


"His return to the Saraswat Sangha was a festive day for all the disciples. During each vacation that he spent at the Ashram, he had been for them all ―the beloved poet‖ illuminating the talks of the Guru, and making the work on themselves seen like labouring on the land to bring forth a garden of fruits and flowers."

In those days Baul had never been educated in University, he spoke English no Baul spoke English back them, as they were indigenous. He may have been inspired by Baul as Rabindranath Tagore was inspired by Nabani Das Khyapa Baul. Baul is indigenous, they only served the villages of Bengal as Seva, they would not have been on a vacation, it is not even a word they knew.

This is not Baul, especially at the time Anirvan lived, Baul is based on ancestry and oral Sanskrit, which is indigenous to Birbhum Bengal. Bauls did not live in ashrams they lived in akhara's. Bauls did not have a University education, they were not classically trained .
As a Baul, he took the name of Anirvan. (one does not take a name), you are born with a Baul name, Baul is based on ancestry) and who was his Baul Guru, you have to have a Baul Guru, his learning was classical. Baul is outside of grammer a Baul learns Sahaja outside of grammer in an Akhara not an ashram.

"It is no doubt Nirvacanīya becoming, with an ―a‖ privative, a-nir-vac-anīya, which corresponds syllable by syllable to in-ex-plic-able in English, the root meaning being clear in the former and figurative in the latter. In general, people called him ―Mahārāj,‖ and those who knew him: ―servant of the Rishis.‖
Although he never spoke of his past, through his letters we learn of some striking incidents in his life. 
As a Baul he simply disappeared, becoming a traditional wanderer through the Himalayas. He lived for some years in a cave at the foot of the Kamakhya Hill in Assam.
Later he was discovered apparently as an anonymous ―man walking through the market place.‖ This was in Delhi where, while working as a tutor, he was translating the books of Rama Tirtha because he thought that the Bengali needed to listen to his voice. 
He was reputed to have become a consultant on many difficult philosophical problems posed by scriptures ranging from the Bhagavad Gita to the Gathas of old Iranian Prophets.
Still later, some people from Ranchi called on him for help. 
They wanted to have a few chapters of The Life Divine of Sri Aurobindo translated into Bengali. This huge work had been written originally in English. 
Fascinated as he was by the text, Sri Anirvan accepted on condition that their Guru, Sri Aurobindo, would agree. 
The result was that Sri Anirvan retired for four years to Almora in order to give his whole time to translating the entire work.
Against his will, many people, including refugees, knocked at his door. They harassed him so much that a very simple kind of life was organized around him to protect him; it was devoid of encouragements to stay!
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When, in due course, Sri Anirvan came to translate the ―Third Mandala of the Vedas,‖ his work became even more intense. He needed more helpers as well as complete isolation. It was at this point that I, Lizelle Reymond, among a few others, came into his circle."

Although I must say that this book is a good book, and many of these writing letters are accurate without the nuances of the way a Baul would describe things, many things are on track and Anirvan was a great intellect trained classically. He was inspired by Baul and but not indigenous to Baul. One thing I can say is that he understood the intellect it take to be a Baul so sorely lost by the cultural genocide that academic scholars, writers, journalists have created by their speculations of calling Baul degraded, illiterate, and interviewing all the wrong people for their thesis? And by academic scholars perpetuating this false narrative of Muslim Baul and Fakir Baul. Bauls are based on the Vedas and Tantra.


"Shrimat Anirvan (8 July 1896—31 May 1978) had mastered the Astādhyayi of Pānini at a very early age. 


After completing his formal education he renounced the world and joined the Kapilamukh Ashram at Jorhat (in Assam) founded by his Guru Swami Nigamananda Paramahamsa where he was given Sannyasa and he became Nirvanananda Saraswati. But after a few years he dropped the ochre robes and changed his name to Anirvan by which he became known to the world at large. 


He spent a number of years in Lohaghat (Almora) where Madame Lizelle Reymond, a Swiss spiritual seeker, joined him and literally took him to the West through her books My Life with a Brahmin Family and To Live Within. He later shifted to Shillong in Assam and finally to Kolkata where he spent his last years. His first book was a Bengali translation of Sri Aurobindo‘s The Life Divine which was described as a ―living translation‖ by Sri Aurobindo himself and was published in two volumes between 1948 and 1951. 


Another sister- publication, Yoga-Samanvaya-Prasanga, based on Sri Aurobindo‘s The Synthesis of Yoga, was published in 1961. According to Ram Swarup: ―In translating Sri Aurobindo‘s works, he was paying his debt to an elder brother and old friend from another life, as Shri Anirvan once said.‖ 


But the centre of his studies was the Vedas on which he acquired a rare mastery over the years. 


His other published works include his magnum opus, Veda Mimāmsā, (published in three volumes), Upanisad-Prasanga (three volumes on Īsa, Aitareya and the Kena), Gitānuvacana (three volumes), Vedānta Jijñāsā and Pravacana (four volumes) to name a few."


Anirvan was a great classically trained scholar, but he was not a Baul, Baul is very specific with specific sadhana's originating in Birbhum Bengal.