Baul Tantra, 'Tantra Mantra Gopi Yantra'

                               

Mystic Baul Tantra, Tantra Mantra Gopi Yantra

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Babu Kishan's 4th book on Baul to be released soon.

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Copyright, no poaching. All rights reserved by Babu Kishan, no copying and taking the names of the stories off, no using by any pretendian Bauls. There is a huge problem of fake Bauls, with fake Baul Guru's and made up fake lineages stealing the intellectual property of this indigenous lineage. What do they steal, the songs, dress, style of dance and instruments, what this lineage has already accomplished by taking their names off and pretendian they are the ones? No integrity, no truth NO BAUL, Satya (truth) is the first tenant of Baul. Seriously what more can we do except mentioning names. Once again, repeat, repeat, it appears to make no difference, some fake Bauls have no integrity or morals, they are actors?

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.

A tribute: 'The Bauls of Bengal' since the 1920's when Nabani Das Khyapa became a part of the free Indian Movement, where Nehru asked him to sing on stages around Bengal and India as an opener for his speaches. Nabani sang at the inauguration of India in 1947. His son Purna Das Baul being the first to do Baul Cultural Programs as a famed Indian singer first in Russia in the 1950's. Then in the USA starting in 1967 with his brother Laxshman Das Baul and his group called, 'The Bauls of Bengal' pioneering historical living lineage for over 70 years now, in the 1970's Babu Kishan composed the music, recorded and released over 80% of his fathers most famous music, the music all Bauls sing today. 

All (pretendian) Baul have followed this one and only lineage, through their songs, style, history and through everything Babu Kishan has written since the 1970's even copying his teaching at Universities around the world,  his music recording, his 40 year career in Indian Cinema, and his 12 years of being a monk in the Ramakrishna order, whatever he has completed, what his father has complete and what Nabani has completed has been copied. Baul history is complete, you can not remake the wheel of Baul history and herstory, and that includes Babu Kishan's mother Manju Das whose name has been deleted along with Brajabala Dasi and Radharani Das as the only legendary Baul women, whose story was complete decades ago. Trying to remake the wheel of Baul history at this point is cultrual appropriationg and riding on the coattails of this lineage, deleting this history and replacing it for personal fame is wrong, especially when we are talking about an already marginalized indigenous ancestral people. 

This at least documented 13 generations introduced Baul to India and the world without them, no one in this world would know about Baul.                         

by Trishula Sandra Das and Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul 

Nabani Das Khyappa Baul, photo by RabindraNath Tagore

The Bengali Tantric Saint Sri Ramakrishna Parmahamsa saw Baul as the ultimate. It is said that Ramakrishna told his wife Sri Sarada Devi  that in his next life he would be reborn as a Baul as his ultimate desire. 

Babukishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul born into this ancient  lineage of Tantric Vaishnava Baul is a rare Baul because he is the only Baul to be a monk in Ramakrishna order in Calcutta for 12 years. Babu is the first Baul to be educated at the Calcutta University with a Masters in Indian Music. A Master of Indian Music folk, classical, Bollywood, bhajan, kirtan and Baul he has composed over 150 scores for Indian Cinema. 

While he was at the Ramakrishna Order the older monks knew Babu Kishan's grandfather Nabani Das Khyappa Baul they knew he was huge well respected mystical source and delighted in telling him stories that only an insider could know about Ramakrishna. Ramakrishna thought Baul was a complete university, that Baul was the most advanced path of tantric sadhana. Lineage Baul's know the tantra to easily connect to the supreme power to pull this power into every moment as if they have their finger on the light switch.  

"I tell you, O friend! What is in my heart? I cannot live without a sympathetic heart. The man of the heart is recognized by his look. He is rare; he swims in bliss and is steeped in love. The man of the heart trades in love. Where can we find the man of the heart, Who carries only a tattered rag under his arm" He does not say a word; he travels the high road.  by Ramakrishna regarding Baul 

"The siddha (perfect individual) of the Shakta Cult is called a kaul. According to Vedanta, he is called a paramahamsa. According to Baul Vaishnavas, he is a Sain. There is none beyond the Sain. A Baul becomes a Sain when he is a siddha. For him, there are no differences in the world. One half of his necklace is made of cow bones and the other of the tulsi plant."  Ramakrishna Kathamrita

Bauls are storyteller, mystic spiritual bards, philosophers, poets, tantrics, singers, dancers the path of the Avadhut. Baul is both dual and nondual.

The Vaishnava Bhakti Tantric Baul's of Birbhum respect and worship 'puja' shakti the feminine divine first, they worship Radha first then Krishna, and simultaneously will worship Kali first then Shiva. Saraswati (Sarada Maa) is very important to the Bauls.

Bauls were sattvic with long hair pulled up into a top knot, women wore their hair long and pulled back. Nabani Das Khyappa Baul was a rare Baul he wore his hair in jata or dread locks because he truly was an Avadhut, and the one and only Tantric Baul who lived his life completely as a Mystic Baul.

There is a reason that a sadhu has jata or (dreadlocks) it is not just style, drawing attention or for show. Sadhu's have Jata because they are always in deep sadhana they don't have time to decorate or clean their hair they spend years in sadhana in the mountains or in caves far from people.

Nabani Das Khyappa Baul wandered in the mountains up to Nepal and Tibet, he wandered to Vrindavan and all over India that is why he had Jata (dreadlocks) not for style or to attract people. When he stopped his wandering ways later in life he shaved his head then he didn't need Jata he was already a Guru, a Baul Saint (Sain) an accomplished adept siddha to the highest degree. He was an extraordinary person that is why all the top intellects, poets, writers, creative people, politicians including Rabindranath Tagore were around him all the time.

Nabani Das Khyappa Baul photo by RabindraNath Tagore

To be a tantric Baul one must have experience in everything in life and have no fear, it is not a beginners path of scholarly trying to interpret and figure out what scriptures mean. On first is an oral sanskritist. 

There are two types of Baul and Sri Nabani Das Khyappa Baul is both. 

1) Ghrihi Baul is a Baul who lives in a family inside the house, with community and sadhu sanga in community or home. This lineage is Vaishnava so they would live a Vaishnava lifestyle very sweet and sattvic vegetarian, they would have cows and be farmers. 

2) Udasi Baul is mostly male because of the culture of India it is easier for a man and wander away from home not so easy for a women. Udasi is a  person without family without community a free bird, free spirit as in wandering sadhu and in sadhu sanga but a different sanga from the householder. A sanga around the dumi doing fire puja they are more open than family.  

Babu Kishan and Guru Grandfather Nabani Das Khyappa Baul 

                                            Rasa Tattva

"A Baul once came here. I said to him, “Are you finished with all the work of refining? Is the pot down from the fire?” The more you boil the syrup, the more refined it will be. First you have the juice of the sugar cane, next molasses, after which lumps, next sugar, then sugar candy, hard sugar balls, etc. It is being refined continuously." Ramakrishna Kathamrita

In the above Sri Ramakrishna is talking about the Baul Tantric technique called Rasa Tattva. 

Baul Tantra and more specifically the tantra of Rasa Tattva distills, grinds and churns everything inside into ecstatic intoxicating honey and juice then lets it flow. All experience, all shastra, all teachings are turned inside and the tantra is to create a beautiful rasa, creating a intoxicating juice that is distilled into a paradoxical sometimes maddeningly unambiguous or elusive song or poetry filled with riddle and allegory.

Through Rasa Tattva one song is a seed for a whole discourse, one song is the whole Bhagavad Gita. It all takes place through rhythm because as Babukishan says, "our life is based on rhythm". The Rasa Lila Mystics are the biggest trance music and dance, they believe in nature their instruments are made from nature, they take from nature and give to nature because there is a connection. 

Bauls were the spiritual newspaper and internet before modern technology, they never thought about copyright or protecting their lineage they just gave freely, they never foresaw that the world would change and the world of copy and paste would be a reality. They never for told of the watering down of their tradition, and that others would claim their lineage, dissect it and reduce it. Time has changed the Bauls must adapt also.

Tantra of Baul Music and sound

A Baul Yantra is not the same as the usual geometrical yantra's, you could say their tools for Tantra are different. A Baul Yantra is called a (Gopi Yantra) it is an ektara the one stringing instrument of peace and unity.They puja their tool the ektara infusing it through sadhana bringing spirit into it, much care and respect is given the ektara just as one would give a mala that has gone thousands of rounds. When a Baul plays any of their instruments they treat it how one would treat a Deity, they are playing the divine they are focusing on a inner divine formula or yantra.

Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul with his Gopi Yantra at Sivananda Ashram in Bahamas 2011

When Babu Kishan started his world travels in the early 1970's at a very young age he has visited Universities around the world teaching Baul first with his parents and then by himself . Babu always been a vocal adversary regarding all the wrong things that have been written about Baul, he is a Guru and scholar mystic of his tradition how can an outsider even claim to be an authority of his tradition because they have written a book or have a PHD on Baul. This is called cultural appropriation and a silencing of the tradition because more often than not it would require them to write a new book or update and they refuse to. 

Babu strongly feels that when a person is representing a community by teaching about Baul on any level, writing books the books should be accurate and truthful, you are representing a living tradition it is not meant to be chopped up dissected and put a box. They are not field work or monkey's in a cage. Books on Baul are not accurate.

Dear friends of Babu's and this lineage of Baul. George Harrison & Babukishan 1986. Ravi Shankar & Babu & Ravi's his son a friend of Babu's. In 1986  George Harrison and Ravi Shankar helped with the publishing of Babu aka Krishnendu's book on The Bauls of Bengal.

Someone recently asked me how can a Baul be Vaishnava Tantric or a tantric at the shamshan cremation ground as well as being Vaishnava? This is the Baul way it is called Sahaja spontaneous natural flowing they do not follow rules and regulations it varies for each and every Baul. Some Bauls lean more Vaishnava especially the householder, their practices are pure Vaishnava, they are poets, singers and dancers, living a simple sattvic life, they do simple right handed tantric techniques. Some are adept Bauls doing Tantric practices in cave and cremation grounds it can be a combination.

Babu Kishan his mother and father. Purna Das Baul, the late  (2010) Manju Dasi and Babu Kishan legendary Baul pioneers they traveled the world together constantly for 4 decades and played on the worlds biggest stages. Babukishan composed and recorded most of his father's music and was their manager.

Kirtan, yoga, tantra are indigenous to India we can gain a benefit but the feeling is different the bhava (emotion and mood) is different, respect is different. I never ever see someone in the west talking to a Deity, crying and pleading to a Deity, it is very rare to see someone speaking out loud to thin air or walking down the street singing out loud everyday. Some do but they are not advanced Yogi's or people who do Yoga in the west. This wild uncontrolled display of emotion is the Bhakti way not always nicey nice controled

How is a western mind to understand Baul Tantra? First one must take themselves out of a book, scholarly box or religious box, then one must take themselves out of a western mind box of thinking in a linear straight line. A Baul plays in the unseen world between the lines a shamanic world of mystery and all Baul Tantra is based on deep love and respect.

Hari is the lover of Love without Hari there is no Love. Babukishan

One must realize India and the Bauls are a paradox and meant to confuse so that the unauthentic or even the unprepared are kept far away. Baul does not reject intellect they have a razer sharp genius intellect at least they should.

Baul does not reject anything, except being tied to the corner of the room.  They are freedom seekers, free birds which I am sure does not mean the same thing as the western mind, when I say free bird here I am saying it in a mystical sense it does not mean anything goes as Bauls do have limits. 

"Bauls are the bird people we like to fly, we do not like to walk." Babu Kishan

Babu Kishan 2007 Fairfax California, this place is very special to us, as this is where we spent alot of time, Babu Kishan has had a long association with this place and all of California since the 1970's. Picture by Sandra Trishula Das

A small taste of Baul Tantra: a tiny synopsis and remember this only pretains to this lineage, there is no other lineage or sampradaya of Baul, random people have used Baul over the past decades, making up lineages and sampradaya's that do not even exist. This can all be proved.

Baul sadhana - one attains an inner vision, without inner vision one is blind to 95% of reality. You must be able to move freely outside of your body mystically, one needs a well developed GPS system or intuition and beyond. There are too many part of Baul sadhana to mention. One unique to Baul is  setting up the altar of your heart and being able to bring the Deities alive inside the human body. How to do Kali Sadhana and or Tara Sadhana, Shiva Sadhana, how to respect because without respect there is no Baul. Mantra, Music and sound healing. Learning all the stories of all Deity, they respect all as part of the whole in a natural spontaneous way. 

Baul darshan - the philosophy of Baul which includes all Indian Philosophies distilled into simple songs with discourses. 

The Sadhana of tattva's information about all the things in the universe samkhya philosophy, they include 108 tattva's where 25 and 36 are usually given. 

Manush sadhana(Manaba Dharma), practices that teach about humanity Bauls believe in being a good human first. Bauls are peacemakers understanding the human condition. Unity of all cultures, caste and creed, love and accept all. 

Guru tattva - things about the Guru, the Guru teaches through song, here one would also, learn the importance of respect, Joy Guru. 

Nayika sadhana partner sadhana - where all focus goes to the soul mate, sadhana of a partner constant connection, mystical love, strong attachment, all imagination and poetic thought is directed around the partner. Concentration and focus are needed a deep yogic focus as there are so many distractions in this world today. The partners feel each other deeply if one is sick the other feels the connection is strong, they are joined at the heart and above the head tied together no words are needed. This is soul to soul and has very little to do with the body. 

Rati car-dande sadhana, Kama and Kamini sutra, desire, again a mystical yoga not regular unconsious sex. Bauls use the word Rati Sangam for mystical union between soul mates or Monar Manush, a women Baul is called a Baulini. This sadhana is a higher level advanced mystical practice not for regular people. In most traditions we are taught to give up attachment but without attachments there is no deep love, this goes against the grain of what many are teaching. 

Love a love that is ecstatic, crazy, wild, love and a love in all the hearts bhava's (moods), then comes years and years of being a mystic, sadhana and meditation as a couple. To do the Rati practices you must be awakened and have all your energy channels open. Baul Kundalini Yoga is flowing waves of bliss (ananda larhari).

Udasi Bauls do not even need a partners they can easily reach to that level through their mystical sadhana of creating all inside their factory including their ideal women. 

Lila tattva, the love between Radha and Krishna and how the Rasa Lila is created in the body, the inner dance that takes place on the altar of the heart. This is a rare esoteric practice that takes years to Master it is a Vaishnava Baul Tantric practice and part of their lineage going back to the beginning of the story of Radha and Krishna.

Pra or Poro tattva - knowledge of other, including face reading, prasna, mystical ways of knowing, vastu ect.

Rasa tattva -  how to grind all of everything and make it into a juice. A very important practice for the Bauls I have described a bit of it above. Again, it is taught under a Baul Guru and takes years if not a few lifetimes. If someone is a Baul Master you can be sure they have spent lifetimes and this life is not the first time they have been Tantric or a Baul.

Atma tattva - techniques of self realization, God realization, samadhi and the different ways to achieve samadhi and the different kinds of samadhi. Knowledge about your soul your monar manush and atma (bliss, pure consciousness, and your eternal nature).

Vayu Dharma, pranayama, controlling the wind, the wind catchers, Hanuman-ji the son of the wind God, they have their own unique techniques and this is a very important part of Baul because the very name Baul comes from Vayu (wind).

Deha tattva - knowledge of the body, yoga, Nabani Das Baul was a legendary Yogi who meditated under water sometimes for a whole day, sankhya philosophy, elements, gunas, anatomy, the kosha's, energy centres aka known as Chakra's but the Bauls use different ones, a Baul needs to know how the machinery works, how all the joints, organs work, how the mind works emotional mind (manas), intellectual mind (buddhi), how the body is put together and all the layers of the body. Ayurveda Indian's system of healing, art and science of life itself. Remedies, healing herbs. All the tattva's things some systems say there are 25 others say there are 36, Baul has108 tattva's but also, says it is unlimited.

Shakti sadhana - the worship of shakti the feminine divine, women are held in the highest respect, as above so below, in the world not of the world, Joy Maa. There are many famous women Bauls they take their side as equal to their husbands. Tantric techniques of worshiping the Goddess of India Baul favorites are Kali Maa, Radha, Tara Maa and Saraswati, Mahavidya, Durga Maa

Samgita and nitya sadhana - music and dance, Baul learns the deep Tantra of Indian music and sound healing, how to connect to the divine through music. This is the highest Tantra. Perhaps because it is not easy to open your inner ear to a high level and become a master of Indian music.

Bhava sadhana - learning what the moods are, this is where I say Indian Bhakti is different from western because their moods and emotions are so very different. A person of European DNA which is our ancestral memory is different from an Indian's ancestoral memory. One is not better than the other but they are different so are their ways and emotions. 

Guruvada -  the talk of the Guru, learning from the Guru. Guru shishya parampara sampradaya.

Lila tattva the mystical love between Radha and Krishna and how this takes place in the human body. The dance the lila inside the soul.

Rasa tattva - all of the things a Baul must know about Rasa, the different kinds of juice.

                                                        Gopi Yantra

A Baul Yantra it is called the Gopi Yantra or Gopi Chand more commonly known as an Ektara the one stringed instrument that symbolised peace and unity to the Baul. 

The Gopi Yantra is the Bauls tool of focus, it is alive awake and spirit is infused in their Yantra. The Gopis were the lovers of Krishna, when Krishna would play his flute they would go mad with divine love and come running to Krishna they would drop everything and run to him. Baul Gopi Yantra can make one mad with divine desire of love and yearning it is a trance instrument. when Babu starts to play all the world disappears and days go by without my mind I forget what I am supposed to do, it takes one out of this world. The difference between classic tantra and Baul tantra is that the tools and techniques are different not all but some.

 TRIBUTE - 50 years ago the Bauls of Bengal came to America

Press photo 1967 Arrivals Calcutta airport

The legendary brothers Purna Das Baul and the late (2015) Laxman Das Baul arrived in America 50 years ago and arrived back home in Calcutta to a huge fan fare in their new suit coats. 

* They are the first Tantrics and Bauls to arrive in America. All Bauls copy and follow this lineage because this lineage has the historical roots of Baul not only for the Bauls but for the world. No one in India or outside would know about Baul if it were not for these pioneering Baul who brought Baul and Tantra to the world.

* Purna Das Baul is the first accomplished Indian Vocalist to arrive in America. 

* They are the first oldest living Lineage of Bhakti Yoga and Kirtan to arrive in America. 

                        A story about that first trip to America

It should be noted the Bauls first came to America on request of Allen Ginsberg whose Guru was Nabani Das Khyappa Baul, Ginsberg had requested that the Grossman's bring Nabani Das Khyappa Baul to America. Nabani was not well and did not want to leave India so he sent his two son's Baul Samarat Purna Das Baul and Laxman Das Baul. This is a story as told to Babu Kishan by his late uncle Laxman Das Baul. The Bauls of Bengal as a musical group came to America for the first time in late 1966, early 1967 they stayed at a home studio called "The Big Pink"in Woodstock New York this was the home studio for Bob Dylan and the Band. 

As usual upon awakening first thing in the morning the Bauls start their music  sadhana playing their Gopi Yantra (ektara) and Khamak (mystic drum) after a few hours Sudhananda Das Baul went to the kitchen to see if they could figure out what to do with this packaged food and frozen food source they were left with and had never seen in their life. They didn't have a clue how to open the packages or what the food was in the freezer even was, probably frozen packaged chunks of meat,  they were vegetarians. They were confused wondering we are hungry what do we do and also, wondering when Albert Grossman was coming back, they were just left at the house and told to help themselves? The scariest thing on their mind was if they went outside bears would eat them up, the place was called Bearsville.

As Sudhananda Das Baul was in the kitchen he glanced outside he was shocked to see at least 100 people enjoying and blissfully dancing right there on the lawn in front this house. They were not bears they were humans. The house was in the middle of farm land in a no where land in Woodstock NY. They had no idea what was going on or how these people came to be outside. Where did they come from? 

Simultaneously Robbie Robertson was driving by in his car past the property and saw all the people and wondered what heck is all the commotion,  he drove in asking the people what are you people doing here? They said, we heard the music I don't know what it is but we just were magically mysteriously drawn here, this sound is different, it is the first time we have heard this divine ecstatic music it has a mystical pulling power and it pulled us here, we were just drawn unconsciously like the pied piper pulled us here. 

Bob Dylan the First Western Baul,  Purna Das Baul and Lakshman Das Baul, far left man unknown, 1966/67 Woodstock NY

The very next day on Robbie Robertsons request Bob Dylan and the Band show up with all their instruments. When the Bauls first saw them they were puzzled, they thought wow a new group is coming here I guess they are going to move us to another place. However, Bob Dylan and The Band had only come to the Big Pink at this time to jam with The Bauls of Bengal on Robbie Robertson's advice. 

Bob Dylan and the Band recorded the album, "The Bauls at the Big Pink" the Bauls did not know they were being recorded. It should be known that the Bauls never knew who Bob Dylan was and only Lakshman Das Baul spoke a few words of English.

After this Bob Dylan was named and started to call himself, "The first Western Baul”. Many others came out of the woodwork and called themselves the first Western Baul only Bob Dylan is the first western Baul by name only and I am sure he has better things to do than present himself as such. There is no such thing as a western Baul, to be a eastern or western Baul first you have to be indigenous to Baul, have some ancestry in Baul? Baul is extinct? You can not fake Baul, sorry, you may be able to fake many things today, having a million likes on social media and pasting your picture all over does not make you a Baul. The first tenant of Baul is Satya, tell the truth, no truth, no Baul?

Copyright all rights reserved, no poaching or name dropping on youtube videos of Babu Kishan's stories that only he knows and has told, they are his stories not yours to take the names off, and present as if you are the one that knows? 

There is no such think as a Baul Master or Baul artist, that is new way that pretendian Bauls appropriate this pioneering indigenous lineage, so they can use this lineage for shameless advertising? It is all very interesting how pretendian Bauls who said Baul was from Turkey, Baul is Buddhist now are decorated in Vaishnava  markings tilika never before and now they love Krishna? Do your research, they never mentioned Baul Kirtan now they  are? There has always been appropriation of this lineage but it has become a virus of copying proportions?  The songs of this lineage, appropriating Nabani Das Khyapa Baul style, you do the research. The blind leading the blind in a whirl of self promotion?

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

Oldest 'ONLY LINEAGE' of VAISHNAVA TANTRIC Bhakti BAULS from the SOUL of BIRBHUM BENGAL IND14h

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SRI ANIRVAN

LETTERS FROM A BAUL LIFE WITHIN LIFE

Compiled by Lizelle Reymond

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!

(iv)

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.

Lineage, Sampradaya , Parampara guru-shishya, why there is only one lineage Baul.

Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das is the first person to speak of any 'Lineage or Sampradaya' regarding Baul and he has done so since the 1960's. He was taught this by Nabani Das Khyapa Baul his Grandfather and Diksha Guru. The Vaishnava Sahajiya Tantric Bauls (Chand Gosia Das Baul and Dasi) is based on ancestry and they are indigenous to Ekachakra Birbhum West Bengal. No one in this world would know anything about Baul if not for this one and only lineage, others came along and followed them, they were not even initiated into Baul, they just sang their songs, dressed as them, and then followed everything they did and followed them around the world. The pretendian Bauls made up fake lineages?

Previous to this blog was Babu Kishan's first Baul website ever in the 1990's millions of people viewed this website and copied whatever they could whether it was accurate or not. Since that time and since 2009 which is when this blog (lineage baul) started there has been a whole group of new pretendians who started to say they belong to a lineage. 100% they do not and are lying. Why? Many reasons they all want to be famous as Purna Das Baul the famed Baul singer, then that wasn't enough they made up foundations to fundraise and some even traveled the world bragging that they sang on the biggest stages in the world, advertising themselves as legendary which was only reserved for Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and Purna Das Baul? These legendary singers were busy stealing the songs off Babu Kishan's youtube channel and many of the over 80% of the songs that Babu Kishan had recorded for his father decades before, they were thinking no one will know, these fake pretendian Bauls became territorial, they never were Baul or from Baul and the Baul Guru's they list Babu Kishan knew them all and not one was a Baul.  Because we named this blog Lineage Baul a whole industry of Baul lineages have popped up out of no where? 

Now that Baul is on the verge of extinction, one by one Baul artists, singers pretending to be Baul have made up new fake LINEAGES, Sampradayas and Parampara usually based on someone who was not a Baul and how would you know? You would not know, most people do not even understand the language. These people act all sweet however, they have copied directly (appropriated) this lineages songs, dress, where they go and what they have done, teaching at Universities, recording songs, on pretendian Baul says he created Baul fusion at the end of the 1990's when Babu Kishan is the only Baul who created Baul fusion 2 decades before this guy? They make false associations, teach wrong teachings, spread false narratives.

There is100% certainty there is no such thing as a 'Western Baul' or even a Western Bau lineage? Google Lineage it is based on ancestry. That leaves Parampara Sampradaya Guru Shishya, you can not just make a Sampradaya up and based it on a few generations of a poet, when the poet never said he was a Baul. Good god, this is 100% appropriation when Baul is indigenous to Birbhum, how can anybody have the audacity to fundraise asking for donations for a fake lineage of people who do not even speak the language and their Baul Guru is not even from Bengal nor did he call himself a Baul. What on earth is going on?

 What are the fake BAULS doing making up stories based on Gurus who are not Baul Gurus' what is the end game here, other than appropriating a small sect and for what purpose, to fundraise for jackpots or social media fame, the new ma or Babu trying to collect people, when Baul does not collect people?

Vamsa is the Sanskrit word that means family lineage and lineage only means based on ancestors. Know who your ancestors are and do not copy the ancestors from this Vamsa or lineage aka Guru Shishya Parampara Vamsa Sampradaya.

Western Baul does not have any lineage, none of the Western Baul Guru's are from Baul nor did they ever have a Baul Guru? They are not Baul and should not use the name Khepa Baul which specifically comes from this lineage. You can not self-title yourself as a Baul and use anything from this lineage.

 This is total appropriation of an indigenous people. Making up fake lineages has become a game, making up fake Baul Guru's. 

The fake lineage holders do not even have a Baul Guru but yet they have constructed a lineage out of random Guru's who never ever called themselves Baul? 

You may be something, but 100% you are not Baul. 

Stop using indigenous wisdom that does not belong to you and constructing fake lineages, so many have proved they are not Baul. They copy everything from this lineage, as Babu Kishan lets out more information they use that, some have listened to his youtube channel over and over and appropriate songs re-recording Nabani Das Khyapa Baul songs, copying and acting out tears running down their cheeks dancing Nabani Das Khyapa Baul style only, Ektara (Gopi Yantra) Baya (duggi) strapped around their waste and Nabani and Purna Das style ankle bells encased in metal?

 This did not come from their Guru and the Guru they list is a poet not a Baul? You can not make this up, but how would you know, only Babu Kishan knows because he knew them all and tried to help many of them, this is what he gets? No more all is archived and preserved and one by one with our proof Babu Kishan will weed out the fakery of how Baul has been used by so many. He is the only one who has preserved Baul over 60 years.

We have screen shot the theft of this lineage intellectual property, an indigenous Lineage (Sampradaya) usurped. Nobody has said anything until Babu Kishan and it should have been said decades ago.

Lineage which is based on someones ancestors (usually indigengous) or Vamsa based on lineage of ancesors, or Sampradaya, Guru-shishya Parampara are not be thrown around randomly. 

A lineage is only through ancestry it is not meant for outside random Vaishnava or new age Bauls that have made up Baul Guru's who are only people who followed this lineages style, songs, and every where they went?

Cultural Genocide, Baul is not a free for all, for too long many have used Baul for income (donations) do not make a Baul legitimate? Once you lie, you are not a Baul, Bauls are not cheaters, fakes and any random wandering person who does not have a designation.

Baul is not an umbrella name and there is no such thing as a Fakir Baul.

 Lineage is not meant for outside random Bauls who identify as Baul based on interest or copying everything from this lineage but taking their names off or worse yet through false narratives that have led to a cultural genocide of Baul. Baul takes decades to even understand yet some are certify they are a Baul after 3 years, 3 days with a guru now turns into 3 years? I have caught all the lies and documented each and every false teaching.

If you use lineage in regards to Baul prove your ancestry and prove your so called Baul Guru's or their Gurus were actual Bauls and since Lineage means ancestry prove it? 

I know it sounds insane, however, this would not be necessary if it were not for writers and fake Bauls who create fake lineages  and do not even know they are destroying Baul through their false teachings that reduce Baul.

Babu Kishan is the only Baul ever to be educated in the oral tradition and the academic tradition of Baul, Indian Philosophy and Music, he is the only qualified Baul and taught at Universities around the world since the 1970's. 

This is being copied now by outsiders, by people who have made up a fake lineages who have been known to appropriate Baul songs directly off Babu Kishan youtube and giving out poets fake names saying Bauls do not care who the poets are, which is a lie constucted because the fake Baul do not know who the poets are. All authentic Bauls are taught from birth who the poets are? They use all the songs of this lineage never giving credit but have created fake social media fame? 

But how would you know, you wouldn’t their trickiness is beyond what any indigenous Baul could figure out. Babu Kishan does not want any more wrong teachings coming from fakes or academic scholars who only speculate. I have done enough research over the past 18 years regarding Baul and have documented all the false teachings by everybody who teaches on social media, or who have written books and are scholars. All will be released in the book which will be released this year. If it weren't for all this ignorance I would have been finished the book long ago, the fakes are giving too much material that needs to be qualified. 

I mean geez they do not even know the correct name of their instruments that they copied from Nabani Das Khyapa Baul? They come out of the woodwork, create woodwork and if Babu Kishan talks about Nabani and Tarapith, all of sudden they are acting like they are the ones?  

These random Baul are now posing as Vaishnava, they never did this before, they see what Babu or his family is saying, then they change their websites and their stories, it is cheaper than cheap and very misleading. For the fake Bauls it is a free for all, now they wear Vaishnava tilak posing as Vaishnava, whatever attract more view on social media they will do? 

I watch everything and have documented all over 18 years, they now are Bollywood too, I mean what insanity. Babu Kishan is the only Baul ever to be associated with Indian Cinema and Bollywood in any real way? 

Come to think of it for the scholars of Baul it is a free for all, laced with speculations of what they can not figure out, they want to put Baul into a box because they can't figure it out or make connections so they speculate and create all sorts of misinformation.

At the very least Babu Kishan is academically qualified with a Masters MA in Indian Music and Philosophy from Calcutta University. He grew up in a Baul family on the soil and soul of Birbhum with his Baul Gurus, Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and Brajabala Dasi and spent 12 years in the Ramakrishna Mission as a monk. 

Babu Kishan is not self-titled in Baul as he was born into it, and preserved this whole lineage since the 1960's, people in the west do not know anything about Baul they follow who looks exotic and will believe whatever they are told, you need deep discernment and an understanding of the language which is vernacular Birbhum Bengali, oral Sanskrit or Classical Sanskrit and an understanding of indigenous peoples. Even as an accomplished music composer, back then you had to produce a bundle of famous lyrics and famed music of hundreds of works that are known and have been successful. 

 Famed legit music composers had to sign for you for your music skill, they had to approve you as a music composer. Today anything goes, if you have the money to pay, you can be anything you want, including a fake Baul or fake Music composer.

Yet, others are trying to copy Babu Kishan teaching at Universities and using it an advertisment of their authenticity when it mean nothing, they are just copying whatever Babu Kishan has done 4 decades ago? However they are teaching false narratives, watering down and reducing Baul. Posting pictures of your so called Guru's does not certify you to teach Indian Philosophy, Music or Baul. 

 BabuKishan.org

The Mytic Drum called Ananda Lahari only by Nabani Das Khyapa Baul.

The Dotara first used in Baul in the 1940's by Gopal Das Baul who was Nabani's daugher Radharani Dasi's husband. Gopal Das Baul was the son of the Pujari who ran the Nityananda Temple in Ekachakra Birbhum India. 

Nabani Das Khyapa Baul with his Mysic Drum the Ananda Lahari, it was Nabani only who named this drum Ananda Lahari.

I want to clarify what lineage and sampradaya actually mean. 

Scholars, Writers, Journalists and fake Bauls over the past ten years, roughly since 'social media' are throwing around that they are from a lineage of Baul. The problem is there never ever was a bunch of lineages or sampradaya's of Baul, these terms are now used on a constant basis, if you only knew that the new Bauls actors are posing as Baul some to survive other for fame and gain?

First let me clarify that there is only one lineage and Sampradaya of Baul. 

This is necessary because of the copycat nature of what Baul has become since extinction in the late 1960's gets watered down everyday by fakes.

# 1. What is the definition of Lineage.

Lineage is not an Indian term:  

from Old French lignage "descent, extraction, race"  from ligne "line," from Latin linea "line of descent," literally "string 

From Cambridge University -

" the members of a person's family who are directly related to that person and who lived a long time before him or her:

ancestor (DNA)

ancestral

ancestry 

geaneology

family tree

lineal descent from an ancestor; ancestry or pedigree.

1. direct descent from an ancestor. 

2. ancestry; family; stock. 

3. descendants from a common ancestor 

Meaning of Lineage: The members of a person's family who are directly related to that person and have lived a long time before him or her.

1. lineal descent from an ancestor; ancestry. 

2. the line of descendants of a particular ancestor; family; race.

Line of descent from an ancestor; hence, family; race; stock. 

Regarding Lineage and why Babu Kishan used it regarding his lineage, is his ancestory, because he assumed no one would know what a Sampradaya is, so he used Lineage appropriately, most people just assume? 

The actual term in Indian is Sampradaya a Sanskrit word. 

The orthodox use ancestry to beat over the indigenous peoples heads as they are the authentic because they belong to the Sampradaya. However, with Sampradaya there must be a long line, not 3 or 4 generations but a long established Sampradaya and one would use be a Sanskritist and from the soul and soil of something with decades of deep sadhana. Bauls are Tantric Sahajiya not preachers who collect people the orthodox took the indigenous Bengli's out of the picture. Today they have take Nityananda out of the picture other than where they can make money for their temples. The orthodox changed what Sampradaya meant saying it is not based on ancestry and brain washed people into believing they are the only Sampradaya coming out of Bengal and none of them has anything to do with ancestry, this Baul Sampradya is based on lineage (ancestry or DNA). 

The orthodox have an ulterior motive of collecting people, donations and preaching. Baul does not collect people, they do not preach and their system of donations is called Dakshina which they shared with all the villagers, the Bauls never left a trace or took anything for themselves.

Babu Kishan is the fist person to organize tours through out India and the World for his (family Lineage) since the 1970's. This lineage of Baul and namely Babu Kishan pioneered bringing Baul to all of India and the World, others followed them and took their names off claiming they were legendary and making up fake lineages. 

There is no one in this world who would know about Baul without Nabani Das Khyapa Baul his Baul singer son Purna Das Baul and Nabanis first grandson Babu Kishan whom Nabani named Krishnendu Das. 

That is how people today study and talk about Baul today, if not for this pioneering family Lineage no one would have anything to fake or even know about Baul.

This is the only Lineage of Baul and the only Sampradya of Vaishnava Tantric Sahaja Baul (Gosia Chand) Das Baul and Dasi, as per the definition of lineage because they are the only ancestry who pioneered and brought Baul to the world, they are the only sampradaya and Lineage based on the true meaning of lineage and sampradaya, this no other, those who say are, are liars. If you or your Guru has used Das Baul, he has copied it from this lineage and you are a liar (period).

It is necessary to point this out, because unethical individuals are making up lineages in India and in the west? Collecting people, saying come and join us and they are lying. Be careful seriously, what looks cute and exotic is not.

When you use lineage there must be a long line of ancestors, no other Bauls have any long line of any ancestors, however, they make false associations as if they are related but cut the names off of this lineage, we do not want to be associated, this lineage has no association, they have tried but they are not related at all. They only make vague associations so that they can be included competing with Babu Kishan and Purna Das Baul give me a break, Baul is extinct.

Strange as this may appear, those using lineage are not from a lineage. They may now change this word lineage to Sampradaya. Let me define what a Sampradaya is? You will realize there is only one Sampradaya when it comes to Baul to.

Sampradaya -

"sampradaya, in Hinduism, a traditional school of religious teaching, transmitted from one teacher to another. From about the 11th century onward, several sects emerged out of Vaishnavism (worship of the god Vishnu). These sects continue to the present day."

"Sampradaya means a school of thought or philosophical conclusion or siddhanta, embodied by a community of orthodox practitioners. (this is qualified below).

Parampara is, quite literally, 'one after the other' – an historical chain of spiritual preceptors, each of whom was a legacy-holder for the same path and practice."

We know this lineage of Vaishnava Tantric Sahajiya Bauls, are not orthodox, however, this lineage is a living lineage and it has changed over time by the people who lived it, but what is going on today has nothing to do with Baul (period), Baul does not collect devotee's or steal what does not belong to them. 

Thus, this family ancestry long line called Lineage can be traced to the 14th century through Nityanada (Gosia Chand Das Baul) of Ekachakra Birbhum W Bengal as a Sanskrit living lineage. I use Lineage correctly because this is based on ancestry and a long line going back thousands of years. 

This lineage is a Sampradaya based on being indigenous (Gosai Chand) which is a lineage and a Sampradaya, the difference between this lineage and other Gosia aka (Gosain, Goswami) is that Bauls are not orthodox they are Tantric indigenous to Vaishnava Baul, they already existed before Gaudiya Vaishnavism, this does not disqualify them as lineage because they are Sahajaiya Tantric, which is never orthodox.

Parampara - refers to the uninterrupted succession of gurus.

 First you have to be a Baul Guru to pass on Baul, the ones claiming lineage do not even have a Baul Guru?

 Nabani Das Khyapa Baul was the last Baul Guru he only passed it on to a few people, none of the people who are saying they are a Baul Lineage of Sampradaya are associated with this one and only lineage sampradya. 

Their only association is stealing their intellectual property (poems, songs), dress? It is great to inspire others and that was Babu Kishan's wish, however, to not give credit what you steal is wrong, it actually is cheating and lying and the first tenant of Baul is (tell the truth). 

Baul has not been preserved so that people can pretend they are Baul and make up lineages, sampradya's, parampara's ect.. The only reason Baul exists because this lineage preserved it mos recently coming from their blood ancestor Sri Nityananda of Ekachakra Birbhum W Bengal and thousand of years before carried it forward through hearing and remembering. Baul is extinct now!

Some constructed Lineages most recently by a western Vaishnava has linked Nityananada's lineage as having ended with Bhaktivindo Thakur, he is not ancestrial related no blood relation, he is not even from Vaishnava, this is an most rediculous association because he did not like indigenous peoples.

If you see Western Bauls claiming lineage, there is no lineage, the Guru's of their lineage are not Baul and never called themselves Baul? If you see actor Bauls calling themselves Baul saying they are from a lineage, they can not be, it is all made up because Babu Kishan used the word lineage so they all thought they would use the word Lineage, they list Guru's who had nothing to do with Baul, and nobody even knows who those people are?

Poets are poets, the ones that people use calling them Baul are not Baul, the most used names Bhaba Pagla, Monohar Khepa and Lalon Fakir are not Baul, they never ever claimed to be Baul? They loved Baul and Nabani Das Khypa Baul and Purna Das Baul music. The people who followed Monohar Khepa and hung out at his ashram in Kenduli are not Baul, Purna Das Baul loved Monohar Khepa and called him a guru but he is not a Baul Guru, Babu says his father calls everyone Guru, that is just what he does. Purna had many Guru's including Nabani (his father of course) and Sitaram Das Omkarnath who was not a Baul but a Vaishnava Guru. Babu Kishan has had many Guru's but only one Baul Guru his grandfather Nabani Das Khyapa Baul from birth.

All th above are poets who either had an association with this lineage, regulars who stayed in their family home in Calcutta.  Babu Kishan produced music for their poetry and recorded all of them for his father Purna Das Baul to sing as he who was a popular most famous ever Baul singer. Just because Purna Das Baul sang their songs does not mean they are Baul songs. This is a huge problem scholars are making claims they do not even know the history of. Baba Pagla hung around Purna Das Baul not because Baba Pagla was a Baul but because if he hung out Babu Kishan could produce music for his poetry and he would be known by more people.

Distinctions are important, because many are cheaters and have a desire to be famous and collect donations, this does not mean they are Baul, they are using Baul, distorting Baul, lying and cheating for their own fame and suvival. 

Watering down and reductionism, false teachings and all can be proved, it is up to the fakes to prove their lineage and that their lineage is longer than 3 or 4 generations, there must be a direct line of actual Bauls, not refugees or the fake it til you make it Bauls because Baul is extinct and what is going on today is cheating and lying and leading to further distruction of Baul, what they don't care, they will keep up their faking to survive for themselves and scholars only care about their career.

No one in the world or outside of Bengal would know about Baul without this lineage, Baul is a small sect and very distinct.