Vaishnava Baul Oral Lineage (oral in Sanskrit and they sang in vernacular Birbhum Bengali to the Villagers). Lineage of Baul song and Baul Kirtan, Nada Yoga Nada Bramha) Tantra, Bhakti but so much more.

https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com

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Lineage of Radha and the MahaVidya's.

Prakriti Sadhana, Vayu Dharma and many other Tantric Practices. The picture of Nabani Das Baul is why Tagore gave him the name Khyapa (Khepa) he was a Mystic, Siddha and one of his initiations and blessings was by Bama Khepa of Tarapith. He was the last of the authentic Baul Avadhuta a Baul Guru to many including Allen Ginsberg and Rabindranath Tagore. 
Photo of Nabani by Rabindranath Tagore. 

The path of Radha - The Vaishnava Bauls of Birbhum Bengal. Believe it or not there is only ONE Lineage of Baul and this can be proved and will unfold in Babu Kishan's 4th book on his lineage. 

All Bauls follow this Lineage, they sing their songs, they dress as they dress and they follow where ever they go right to a tee!

Baul is Extinct, Baul History and Her-story was complete decades ago. Baul has been PRESERVED & ARCHIVED decades ago!! It has been done all of it. 

Baul has been preserved and archived decades ago by 'Babu Kishan' and his family long ago. There is no need for any outsider to archive Baul we have seen this be done by outsiders and they have made a huge mess, interviewing people who are not even Baul? What Baul needs are translators from Bengali to English of the material already archived. We have seen the songs of this lineage stolen and other poets names put on, this proves one is not a Baul and only trying to copy Baul when one does this. It can be proved and that is the sad part of this and because of this all the stories will come out (period). Babu has been the biggest supporter of New Baul singers but now that Baul is extinct, the truth must come out.

What people are doing today is a cultural mis-appropriation. There is only One lineage of Baul the (Das Baul and Dasi Lineage) and that is this lineage. 

All Bauls follow this lineage from Ekachakra Birbhum W Bengal. They sing the songs of this lineage, they dress like this lineage, they go where they go and follow them now around the world to exactly the same places they have gone in the past??

The official Largest ever Baul Archive and preservation of Baul was complete decades ago, and it has already been preserved by Nabani Das Bauls Grandson 'Babu Kishan' as per Nabani and Brajabala wishes when Babu was very young. He has worked with a dogged determination and with a strong intent to do as his Baul Guru's from Birth have directed him to do. While he archived Baul and because of his musical Genius as an accomplished Music Composer he has also, categorized the Folk Music of India for all the biggest Record Companies in Bombay back in the 1980's.'  

http://BabuKishan.org  

Babu Kishan was one of first people who as an expert consultant to all the all India's Top Music companies in Bombay who categorized all of 'India's Folk Music' and much more in the history of Indian music in India.  He has a Masters Degree in Indian Folk Music from Calcutta University and has been an Award Winning Music Composer since he was 11 years old in Bengal, awarded the youngest Music Composer in the 1970's in India. 

https://indiafolkheritageofbengal.weebly.com

Babu Kishan's life journey was to Archive and Preserve Baul, this was a mission that was given to him at a very young age by Nabani Das Baul and Brajabala Dasi. 

Get ready here comes Babu Kishan with his 4th book on his ONE and ONLY LINEAGE Of Baul and it is a tell all, right down to the nitty gritty to be released in 2018/early 2019. 

www.babukishan.org

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Lila Roy she was an English Translator of Rabindranath Tagore's work and the Editor of my first English Book on Baul by Krishnendu Das.

Remembering: Lila Roy

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Lila Roy was an adept translator of Rabindranath Tagore's works from Bengali to English. She was the English Editor of the English book 'The Bauls of Bengal' which I wrote in the 1980's. 

Lila Roy was a very special person a Western women who was a real Master of Bengali who had a deep understanding of the 'Soul and Soil of Bengal'.Lila was a Legend and I do not want the world to forget her. Many people go on about the Western Scholars of Bengali, those who wrote books explaining Baul for Western Academia. I knew and met them all and not one of them compared to Lila Roy including Charles Capwell and Edward Dimock.

Here we are at Vigyan Bhavan, in New Delhi, attending the International Symposium of World Philosopy in the early 1980’s: 

Krishnendu Das aka Music Legend #BabuKishan with Lila Roy a major #RabindranathTagore English translator the legendary #LilaRoy aka AliceVirginia Orndorff of El Paso, Texas, she was born in 1910, the daughter of American pioneers, descending from German immigrants in the 18th century and from English immigrants a century earlier.

Lila Roy 'far right standing up' at a wedding that looks like Rabindranath Tagore is acting as a marriage Pujari.

Her teen years in Los Angeles, where she attended school and college, and then went to New York to study piano. While on a tour of Europe, she became interested in Indian music and was encouraged to explore it for herself by a friend in London. 

She arrived in Calcutta in the summer of 1930 and met the Legendary Poet and Author 'Annada Sankar Roy' for the first time in the provincial town of Berhampore where he had just begun his career. 

Lila and AnnadaSankar Roy were married in October 1930 in Ranchi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annada_Shankar_Ray aka Roy

Alice Virginia began life in India as “Lila” (at that time, Annada Sankar sometimes wrote under the pen name of “Lilamoy”). Of interest to Santiniketan buffs, the writer Pramatha Chaudhuri and his wife Indira Devi Chaudhurani were present at the wedding.

She had seen and experienced the real and original Baul senses from Baul Saint Nabani Das Khyapa Baul my Grandfather and Guru who initiated Rabindranath Tagore into Baul. Nabani Das Khyapa Baul was the Baul who inspired and initiated Tagore into Baul giving him the name Robi Baul. She had not only seen and knew my Grandfather she knew my Dad Purna Das Baul from a very young age. 

Lila Roy was a great friend of mine too, she had an Academic personality, and we related well because I have always been archiving and preserving Baul from a young age and I loved language as I was born into oral Sanskrit, Indian Philosophy, Baul Philosophy. I was a great student from a young age of my Grandfather Nabani Das Khyapa Baula and Brajabala Dasi both oral Sanskritists. 

Brajabala my Grandmother who raised me from birth was a descendent of Narottama Das the great Vaishnava poet, I was lucky because I received the best teachers of my tradition and lineage all the way around. When I was born Nabani had stopped his Sadhu wandering ways and I benefited from having his attention full time.

Then of course I was the first Baul to be educated in an English Classical way with a BA of Indian Philosophy, Indian Music with a MA of Indian Music from Calcutta University.  

I was trained in both Oral and Classical of Indian Spirituality, Sanskrit and Indian Music, Folk, Classical, Indian Cinema and I am the only 'Baul Music Composer' who actually is a Music Composer with a huge body of work of over 60 albums, 150 Indian Cinema Musical Scores, I have released 300 films and 500 private, and Indian Cinema albums. 

Lila Roy knew Lineage Baul and was an expert on Bengali translations into English she was not a light weight she knew Baul History with 3 generations all together in one life. I do not believe there is anyone else who outside of our lineage who was as steeped in Vaishnava Baul as she was.

She used to say on and on, that meeting with Nabani Das Khyapa Baul was a mystical experience which she never found from anyone ever.

Lila Roy knew why he was Rabindranath Tagore’s most precious buddy and Baul inspiration. She also said Guru Baul Saint Nabani Das Khyapa Baul did not compare with any one she had ever met, he was just the one and only symbol of Bauls of Bengal!

Lila was a big supporter of mine. Lila Roy bought 100 copies of my first book to make me feel great, I was the first person from my family and One and Only lineage to write 3 books about my oldest Baul Lineage, she was my editor. 

She was my well wisher and I will never forget her.

Krishnendu Das aka Babu Kishan @ 22 years of age.
https://www.parabaas.com/translation/database/translations/essays/pAnandarup_LilaRay.html

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