The Dotara was used for the first time as a Baul instrument in the 1940's.

DOTARA - 

a folk instrument much like it's classical cousin, the sarode, and not unlike it's western relative, the fretless banjo. Plucked with a coconut shell pick, the strings are depressed with the fingernails of the left hand, rather than the finger pads as in a guitar or violin. the finger nail becomes like the slide on a slide guitar. 

My dotar has an electric pickup built into the bridge, which is normally made of elephant teeth, I am the first Baul to do fusion music, then I made an electric mandolin, and added more instruments.

 Babukishan

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"The first Dotara used by Bauls was by Gopal Das Baul in the early 1940's he was the husband of Radharani Dasi Baul ( Babu's aunt who was the biggest most famous Baul women for her revolutionary firsts as a Baul women, she was a sweet magical Baulini with a voice that is a gift.)  

Gopal Das Baul was the disciple of Nabani Das Baul.

 This is where this one and only LINEAGE of Vaishnava Baul is from, they are from Ekachakra and ancestors of Nitai (Nityanada who was the elder best friend of Sri Chaitanya.

 

Nabani asked what Gopal wanted because he was such a wonderful student, of all my students you are the best, and Gopal said I want to marry your daughter, Radharani, he said allow me to be in your family and take care of Radharani all my life. Gopal Das was pure Vaishnava, a true sadhaka.

Radharani as the first official Baul Women to record for all India Radio... In 1960's there was movie call Raikamal made about Radharani's life, wrote by one of Bengali's top writers, Tara Shankar. In 1985 a movie called Togori was also made about Radharani's life. 

A very historic family Lineage of Bauls.

Gopal Das was the son of the Ekchakra Nityananda Temple, and he was a great sweet maker. "Nityananda Mahaprabu was a Baul and from this lineage, he was an Avadhuta Baul, this lineage has been hijacked over and over, most recently by nakal fake Bauls, the fake it til you make it, the ones who make up lineages, teach wrong teachings, and collect donations to preserve Baul, when Baul was preserved decades ago by Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul."

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The Bauls of Bengal in Australia 1973

Rainbow Dreaming  

The Bauls of Bengal

The Bauls of Bengal with John Allen, Aquarius Festival, Nimbin, 1973 
Image: © Darcy McFadden/Northern Star

A Glimpse of a Dream

“Between the existent
and the non-existent
the space is love...”
Baul song

All those of us who have lived through the sixties have caught the glimpse of a dream. It was inescapable. The Beatles sang it; rock music and films explored it in a thousand ways.

The dream was everywhere and the dream was simple – love your brother, discover yourself and lower the barriers. Stop playing games, see through the roles and realise that you are all one with another.

Then came the seventies. If the sixties were the decade of the dream, the seventies were to become the decade of disillusion. After all the explosion, the personal glimpses of a new way, of a new life on the planet, what were we left with? Still the Vietnam war lingers on. 

The great majority continued in their jobs by day, nurtured by the opiate of television in the evenings. . .

But the dream continued - often underground, often damaged and wounded, sometimes nostalgic, sometimes ridiculed. But the dream continued. What else could it do? Once a whole generation has glimpsed, if only for a moment, the promise of salvation, it must follow that glimpse for the rest of its life.

It is for these reasons that the May 1973 Aquarius Festival is important to me and to many others. Our lives are largely determined by the mythology we create...There is something wrong with the mythology of the dollar. We badly need a new mythology.

What is this mythology? It is a simple one: 5,000 people can meet together without violence, without destruction, in peace and in love. If 5,000 people come as tribes, prepared to combine to build their own structures to live in, to feed themselves, to explore their creativity in theatre and music, we will have a festival the way they should have been from the beginning. If we all create this mythology,

 if you believe it and tell your brother and spread the word, it will happen. “Mankind’s future”, says Bucky Fuller, “is whatever man chooses to make it”. The energy of 5,000 people is almost unlimited. Between us, really working together, we can achieve anything.

The only limitation on reality is our imagination. It is up to us to choose whether the dream is to be lost until a more courageous generation is ready for it, or whether we ourselves can participate in the dream.

Festivals are about dreaming...

Johnny Allen, Director, Aquarius Foundation,
Australian Union of Students, 1973

John Allen in 1973 Australia with Purna Das Baul and his wife Manju Das, Far right Bhakto Das Baul a T series Baul singer. Nabin Koyal, Jiban Mondol long time associated with Purna Das Baul and Manju Das. Jiban played in Bauls of Bengal in 1967 they have been associated with Purna Das Baul for 40/50 years. Nabin Koyal is one of Bengals top devotional singers. These Bauls and singers have been so devoted to Baul.

Purna Das Baul and group including Babukishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul in Shantiniketan Pous Mela, Purna Das Baul was always the biggest attraction. The Pous Mela was created in honour of Nabani Das Baul by Rabindranath Tagore. What is going on at the Pous Mela today is not what is was meant to be it is completely ruined, the originality it totally gone. Purna Das and group do not show up anymore, and probably other original Baul do not show up because it has become something different.. The days of the orginal are gone.

Manju Dasi, you can call her legendary, she was the first Women Baul to travel over seas starting in the early 60's and unlimited times around the world. She is what legends are made of, she played on the biggest stages around the world.

This is a picture of Nabani Das Khyeppa Baul on the cover of The Bauls at Big Pink a recording made in 1967 @ Woodstock New York, with Purna Das Baul and group. 

This is the picture of a Lineage Baul a "Vaishnava Baul" from Birbhum Bengal India. Nabani Das Baul was a Baul saint who wrote an unlimited amount of Baul poetry, he inspired Rabindranath Tagore. 

This picture was taken by Rabindranath Tagore himself. 

All Bauls follow this lineage, they dress as they dress, they follow them around the world, they sing their songs.

Manju Dasi the first and only Baul women to travel the world, Babukishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul and Purna Das Baul.

Brajabala Dasi Babukishan's beloved Grandmother, a Baul women of the highest. She is a legendary Baul women, a lineage Baul and probably one of the last great women Bauls to walk this earth.  She was Nabani Das Bauls wife and mother to Purna Das Baul.

                                   Young Purna Das Baul and hi#facebookindia #facebooknews #facebookpost #hastagkdbabukishan #europe #canada #usa #russia #australia #thehindu #indianexpress #saregama #anandabazarpatrika #toronto #california #delhi #westbengal #kolkata #mumbai

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Hansraj - 1976 Film of the Life of Purna Das Baul, Babukishan's father.

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Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das has preserved this lineage, no one else ever mentioned any of this or remembered. Babu Kishan is the only one who has documented all, so if you plan on using any information from this blog, please state where you got it from and give credit.

Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul worked on both of these movies as an assistant to the director, Hansaraj and Tagari.

You saw if here first, you did not do the research or the documentation. No poaching or taking the names off.

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The movie is a twist on Purna Das Baul's life.

Note. they are dressed 60's style but it was more like the 1940's, this is a movie about Purna Das Bauls life coming to Kolkata at a very early age, his struggles and bringing Baul out of the village to the world.

There is a film called Tagari 1985, about BabuKishan's aunt, Radharani Dasi. Babu kishan was involved in both movies. This is the oldest living lineage of Baul, there is no comparison with any of the new Bauls who are making up stories about lineages ect.. these made up lineage do not exist it is all story. They are singing songs from this lineage,  therefore they come from this lineage or they are singing Bangladeshi folk songs, and that is not Baul

https://www.filmiclub.com/movie/tagari-1985-bengali-movie

Why I say this is because the Bauls dress like this lineage, they sing the songs of this lineage, to make up stories on Baul at this point is a ruining a tradition that is almost extinct. 

There were so many people wandering around Bengal and they all were lumped together as Baul and this is not so. Baul is different from Fakir, Sai, Aula, Shah, Dervish are NOT Baul.

Baul is Das Baul, Dasi Baul and anybody with the name Das Baul comes out of this lineage ONLY. There is not any other lineage, there is only people (Baul singers) who make up lineages using everything from this lineage.

Das Baul and Dasi are Vaishnava and only come from this lineage. 

They are not Fakir, Sai, Aula, or Dervish those are Sufi., they are NOT Baul.

Baul accepted Sufi not the other way around, sufi does not necessarily accept Baul. Sufi is Sufi.

 Baul is Baul and just because they accepted others, feeding people does not mean they became those people, they accepted and just because a random person says they are Baul does not mean they are?

A Baul accepts everybody, it is not necessarily so with Sufi, you do not often see a Sufi singing songs of Krishna and Radha talking about Krishna and Radha and Hinduism but you will see a Baul talking about Sufi, Christianity, Buddhism...

 Baul is based on Indian Philosophy, not Islam, it is based on the Bhagavad Gita.. and is as old as the Bhagavad Gita.