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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Nabani Das Khyappa Baul and Brajabala Dasi in 1962 when Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul was born.
Nabani has a stroke in 1962 this is why his long jata was shaved off, this is when he stopped traveling and his little disciple grandson was born in 1962, this was also, the time when Allen Ginsberg made his way to Birbhum and met Nabani. Babu Kishan has a many decades friendship with Allen Ginsberg and is the only Baul who did. This is his personal lived story, no other random generic Bauls ever met or had anything to do with Ginsberg or Bob Dylan, Babu Kishan has no idea why pretendian fake Baul make false association with his life, Nabani's life and with Purna Das Bauls life but take their names off claiming their already lived and first time stories.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Nabani Das Baul songs... from this oral Living Lineage..
The only Legendary Baul and the last of the real Bauls of Bengal, (Lineage Baul) Nabani Das Khyappa Baul
No poaching or using these stories as only told by Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul, no inidgenous fraud or indigenous identity theft.
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2025/02/indigenous-identity-theft-indigenous.html
These 4 songs made Baul famous worldwide.. these songs and the tune are from Babukisha's lineage and his family. His grandfather Sri Nabani Das Khyeppa Baul wrote the lyrics to "Ghole Male Ghole Male," "Bhalo Kore Porga Schoole," and "Menka Mathay Delo"... all written by Nabani Das Baul and music composed by Nabani Das Baul.
In recent times they were made super famous by the one and only "legendary Baul of our time Purna Das Baul" who is Babuksihan's and Nabani Das Baul son.. these songs were recorded by Indian Cinema's legendary music directors of "Hindustan Records which was the first official Indian Music Company in India." These 3 music directors were Bengali's, Pan kaj Mallick, Timir Baran, Raichand Boral. These famous music directors recorded Purna Das Baul because Purna Das is the best Baul singer and because these music directors respected Nabani Das Baul, they were his friends and well wishers. 20x Ghole Male Ghole Male was recorded 20 X worldwide and 18 of those times it was recorded 18X by Babukishan and everytime it was recoreded it was a hit. Today this song is sung by Bauls without any of them giving credit to the Baul who wrote it or made it famous.
None of these songs are Bengali folk songs they are Baul songs from a many thousand year old lineage and should be treated with respect not songs to be sung on singing shows or in Movies without any understanding of where they came from or who wrote the songs?
(Another of Nabani Das Baul songs is Hridmjhare Rakhbo, from this lineage..) Singing Babukishan
1. Ghole Male Ghole Male, Nabani Das Baul song.
The Ektara's in the picture are hand made by Babukishan himself.... and he is playing the dolak in this version of Gole Mali Gole Mali..
2. Jemon Beni, Rasaraj Gosai (Nabani Das Baul's uncle) wrote this...he was one of the prominent sanskrit scholars and Baul poet in Bengali history, he was a sanskrit master. Never married and the greatest tantric and tantric poet. Music composed by Nabani Das Baul and Purna Das Baul is the first to record it. I just want to let you know this is not a Bengali folk song, none of these songs are folk songs they are Baul songs of Sadhana with a deep philosophical meanings.
3. Bhalo Kore Porga Schoole... Nabani Das Baul song and tune, it is a song about about Sri Chaitanya mahaprabu, and Nityanada Revolution.. Actually the Bauls made this revolution famous and Gaudiya Math and Iskcon high-jacked their songs ect and distorted what Baul is???.. there is something that people need to understand Chaitanya was not a poet or Baul he was a scholar, it was Nityananda and his lineage going back thousands of years that were the poets, philosophers, Hare Krishna singers and dancers....
4. Menka Mathay Delo.. Nabani Das Baul song and tune.
So if you are singing these songs and record on "You tube" now you know.. Please at least give credit to the lineage and stop making up fake lineages ect.. If the Bauls are ever going to survive these songs and this lineage need to be preserved.
Including this song and many many others will be listed.
When you have lied and created new lineages, not telling the truth as to where you got this song from., feeling entitled to poach whatever you want, your Guru first stole this song, style and dress from this lineage, he never was a Baul and there is no separated lineage based on a one generation poet, based upon a patchwork of this lineages intellectual property.
This is indigenous intellectual property theft also, called indigenous fraud. Indigenous fraud is when you steal the songs, style and dance and the stories of this lineage while dropping their names and pretendian you are the one? This is lying (asatya) non-truth telling, Satya is the first tenant of Baul?
Pretending faking Baul has gone on for far too long. Baul is indigenous and no one should be creating fake lineages, this is indigenous fraud.
The listing of other 'fake lineages' in the name of Das Baul and Dasi which only belong to this lineage is indigenous fraud, and listing the wrong or a fake poets name to mislead while using his Grandfather & Guru's poetry. This is only the tip of the ice berg. Where did you copy the song from, we have analytics that it was taken off Babu Kishan's youtube channel.
This has been going on for a long time but he never could foretold, how the pretendian fake Bauls would teach false narratives, wrong teachings while making up a fake Baul Guru and a fake lineage?
Since the internet there is a new wave of 'wanna be's' who have done more harm that good. They have followed every piece of Babu Kishan's life and tried to make it over as if they were the ones. It is a one off for a Baul to teach at Universities around the world since the 1970's as a paid qualified lecturer, who is qualified within the academic community with a BA and MA from Calcutta University, he is qualified to teach Indian Philosophy, Indigenous ancestral Baul from the only lineage of Baul, Indian Music, Tantra, Veda, Upanishads, Purna, Itihas (history), oral Sanskrit and Classical Sanskrit, Baul Sandhya Bhasha and Braja Bhash. He is qualified in every aspect of Indian film and music as he has had a 40 year career in Indian Cinema. Why, on earth would any pretendian Baul try to copy or associate themselves with Bollywood through a youtube video, if you dig deep enough it is outright identity theft where they take the names off of the people who lived this one and only one off Baul history.
They are remaking this lineages lives making them random and replacing Nabani's, or Purna Das Baul and Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Bauls lived lives tyring to pretend they are the ones. Babu Kishan is the only Baul ever a lived history to be associated with and to attend the Ramakrishna mission or have association with Anandamayi Ma, all temples in India, Osho, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg but incredibly these sneaky buggers allude to the fact that they know everything, these stories are not your to be told while taking their names off acting as if you know. This is the start of stopping the gross intellectual indigenous fraud that has been allowed for so long.
Kichchu Din Mone Mone was written by the one and only Nabani Das Khyapa Baul. This song does not belong to you, you stole it off Babu Kishan's youtube channel, that is indigenous fraud and fundraising in the name of Baul when Baul has been preserved already over a 60 years period by Babu Kishan is the biggest indigenous fraud and indigenous identity theft.
When singing this song please do not add other peoples names, especially those that call themselves Baul.
A authentic Baul is non stealing and then to say Baul do not care about who wrote the poetry is pure thievery. To make Baul generic and random is 'Cultural Appropriation' and then to have the nerve to fundraise in the name of Baul to preserve Baul?
This lineage is indigenous to India, it really should be a crime taking an indigenous peoples identity, their songs, their style and then lying making up a lineage with a fake Baul guru who we know is not a Guru. Indigenous wisdom should never be stolen, their songs, their style, copying everything, taking the names off of the people who preserved Baul? Teaching wrong teachings, watering down and reducing Baul as indigenous peoples is a crime, when used to oneself, to promote oneself for fake fame. Time has changed.
""Indigenous peoples and individuals are free and equal to all other peoples and individuals and have the right to be free from any kind of discrimination, in the exercise of their rights, in particular that based on their indigenous origin or identity. Indigenous peoples have the right to self-determination."
- United Nations
Nabani was Rabindranath Tagore's friend and the only Baul to initiate Tagore into this Baul lineage, he gave Tagore the Baul name Ravi (Robi) Das Baul, Tagore gave Nabani the name "Mirror of the sky and Khyepa Baul. Now everybody calls themselves Khepa LOL.
Yet others are making up stories when they have had nothing to do with Nabani or Tagore.
The fist tenant of Baul: Tell the truth. Do not name drop, poach their songs. if you do not know who the poet is but copy by listening over and over, we can see and then record his songs as if you are the one, and without giving credit you are a liar and a bold faced thief.
This song was recorded by Babu Kishan's father Purna Das Baul in the 1960's at India's First Record company, Hindustan Records. Most Bauls songs that are sung today are either Nabani Das Khyapa Bauls poetry or Babu Kishan's poetry, for sure sung by Purna Das Baul and for sure dancing with Ektara, Baya and Nupoor is Nabani Style dance.
Yet, we see the new Baul men and women using everything and randomizing Baul by saying Baul Masters? Babu Kishan knows who wrote the poetry if you do not you are not a Baul and should never be fundraising to preserve Baul.
Kicchu Din Mone Mone was written by Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and it is part of this lineage Baul the only lineage, there is not other lineage of Baul. Lineage Baul Parampara Sampradaya the only Baul lineage.
This is a very simple recording of my Grandfather Nabani Das Khyappa Baul song, singing by me his grandson Babukishan, aka Krishnendu Das Baul. The sound is not great but it was recorded in 2002 in California on a simple recorder.
This song belongs to this lineage and credit to Baul Saint Sri Nabani Das Khyapa Baul. No one would even know about this song if it were not for my family rather than making up new lineages, tell the truth, know the truth.
New Baul singers are making up stories and new lineage that never existed before and leaving out where the songs originated from or putting in different poets names.
Please have respect for this lineages Baul songs, if you sing or record songs from this lineage, please say who the Baul poet is and if you do not know, do not make it up. This is 100% Sri Nabani Das Khyepa Baul song.
Love song of Radha Krishna
Babu's dream in honour of his Grandparents Nabani Das Baul and Brajabala Dasi
Indigenous Baul Fraud, Indigenous Baul Identity theft!
In the late 70's and 80's Babukishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul had a dream to start an institute to preserve the Bauls of Bengal. He worked tirelessly towards his goal and somehow it did not come to fruition. However, no older and more focused on his goal he is in the process of creating BHAVA Baul Historical Ashram and Vedic Academy of Performing Arts under the Ektara Foundation.
Please stay tuned more to come in 2012
Nabani Das Baul and Rabindranath Tagore, Nabani Das Baul is the Baul who inspired Tagore.
Indigenous Baul Fraud, Indigenous Baul Identity theft!
That is why, brother, I became a madcap Baul. No master I obey, nor injunctions, canons or custom. Now no men-made distinctions have any hold on me, And I revel only in the gladness of my own welling love. In love there's no separation, but commingling always. So I rejoice in song and dance with each and all."
-- Rabindra Nath Tagore
The Hibbert Lecture, Oxford, 1930
Sri Nabani Das Baul with his Gopi Chand this name comes only from the Vaishnava Baul lineage...
The famous Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, was the one person in the world who talked about the Bauls, he had met Lalon Fakir, but it was Sri Nabani Das Baul who became his Baul Guru, and his best friend. Nabina Das was the Baul who inspired Rabindranath Tagore this is known form stories within the Lineage Baul. You see Bauls are from a oral tradition of storyteller, this particular lineage are sanskrit scholar, meaning everything is remember by hearing an repeating in sanskrit and spoken in Bengali to the people of the village. There was a long history between the Rabindranath Tagore and Nabani Das Khyappa Baul, and many stories to be told that have never been told.
Rabindranath Tagore the great poet, novelist, musician, playwright, and artist from West Bengal, India knew Sri Nabani Das personally, Nabani Das was the Baul who inspired Rabindranath. Tagore built Nabani a place to do his sadhana on his land, had statue sculpted of Nabani Das Baul and installed, you can view at the Vishva Bharti University in Santineketan. Vishva Bharti is the University Rabindranath created Shantinekaten.
Rabindranath also photographed pictures of Nabani that you can see at the Royal British Museum in London and now anywhere where his grandson Babukishan aka Krishnendu is. Most people use this picute of Nabani Das Baul when cut and pasting regarding Baul but do not even know who this Baul is or what his influence on Rabindranath was?
Some of the eminent painting and drawing that were done of Nabani Das Khyappa Baul were done by many renowned Bengal painters, who were also very close to Nabani Das and considered as very good friends, Nandalal Bose, Jamini Roy. Nabani Das Baul was Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Baul music, dance and philosophy teacher atViswa Bharti University, this is how Nabani Das Baul had come to Know Jawaharlal Nehru.
When India gained independence form the British in 1947 Nehru invited Nabani Das Baul to sing at the inaugaration ceremonies all over India, this was through Rabindranath Tagore. Most of the famous songs that the Bauls are singing have been written by Nabani Das Baul or come from this lineage.
It was the American beat Poet Allen Ginsberg who met Baul Saint Nabani Das Baul in the early 60’s, Ginsberg called Nabani Das his Guru and the 8th wonder of the world, even though Nabani didn't want to be Allen’s guru, Allen claimed Nabani Das Baul as his guru. Allen wrote about Sri Nabani Das Baul for the New York times, Nabani preference was to remain anonymous. There were some people before Allen Ginsberg who also recorded and wrote about Nabani Das Baul, including Deben Battacharya who got the date of his death wrong in his book and other writers in Europe and Japan. What one needs to understand is that Bauls are poets and philosophers, Nabani was a poet who wrote thousands of pieces of poetry or Baul songs, these songs have never beeen published and are only held in memory by a Baul linage holder.
Tagore knew a little bit about Bauls, and as he learned more developed an interest learning more and more and was finally inititated into the Vaishnava Baul by Nabani Das Baul which is a fact whether it is written down or not. The stories are held in the oral tradition and there are many picture which are not shared in this article. They will be shared when we publish because one can see how the world has changed and it is through pictures and people outside that tradtion namely scholars who think they hold all knowledge. For example take a look at the whole Baul tradition it is being watered down and distorted to such a degree, what you see today is not what it was even 30 years ago.
One may ask why is Nabani Das Baul's name not written about in Rabindranaths writings, it is because Nabani being a real Baul Sadhu and he never wanted to be known.
-- Rabindra Nath Tagore
The Hibbert Lecture, Oxford, 1930
The famous Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, was the one person in the world who talked about the Bauls, he had met Lalon Fakir, but it was Sri Nabani Das Baul who became his Baul Guru, and his best friend. Nabina Das was the Baul who inspired Rabindranath Tagore this is known form stories within the Lineage Baul. You see Bauls are from a oral tradition of storyteller, this particular lineage are sanskrit scholar, meaning everything is remember by hearing an repeating in sanskrit and spoken in Bengali to the people of the village. There was a long history between the Rabindranath Tagore and Nabani Das Khyappa Baul, and many stories to be told that have never been told.
Rabindranath Tagore the great poet, novelist, musician, playwright, and artist from West Bengal, India knew Sri Nabani Das personally, Nabani Das was the Baul who inspired Rabindranath. Tagore built Nabani a place to do his sadhana on his land, had statue sculpted of Nabani Das Baul and installed, you can view at the Vishva Bharti University in Santineketan. Vishva Bharti is the University Rabindranath created Shantinekaten.
Rabindranath also photographed pictures of Nabani that you can see at the Royal British Museum in London and now anywhere where his grandson Babukishan aka Krishnendu is. Most people use this picute of Nabani Das Baul when cut and pasting regarding Baul but do not even know who this Baul is or what his influence on Rabindranath was?
Some of the eminent painting and drawing that were done of Nabani Das Khyappa Baul were done by many renowned Bengal painters, who were also very close to Nabani Das and considered as very good friends, Nandalal Bose, Jamini Roy. Nabani Das Baul was Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Baul music, dance and philosophy teacher atViswa Bharti University, this is how Nabani Das Baul had come to Know Jawaharlal Nehru.
When India gained independence form the British in 1947 Nehru invited Nabani Das Baul to sing at the inaugaration ceremonies all over India, this was through Rabindranath Tagore. Most of the famous songs that the Bauls are singing have been written by Nabani Das Baul or come from this lineage.
It was the American beat Poet Allen Ginsberg who met Baul Saint Nabani Das Baul in the early 60’s, Ginsberg called Nabani Das his Guru and the 8th wonder of the world, even though Nabani didn't want to be Allen’s guru, Allen claimed Nabani Das Baul as his guru. Allen wrote about Sri Nabani Das Baul for the New York times, Nabani preference was to remain anonymous. There were some people before Allen Ginsberg who also recorded and wrote about Nabani Das Baul, including Deben Battacharya who got the date of his death wrong in his book and other writers in Europe and Japan. What one needs to understand is that Bauls are poets and philosophers, Nabani was a poet who wrote thousands of pieces of poetry or Baul songs, these songs have never beeen published and are only held in memory by a Baul linage holder.
Tagore knew a little bit about Bauls, and as he learned more developed an interest learning more and more and was finally inititated into the Vaishnava Baul by Nabani Das Baul which is a fact whether it is written down or not. The stories are held in the oral tradition and there are many picture which are not shared in this article. They will be shared when we publish because one can see how the world has changed and it is through pictures and people outside that tradtion namely scholars who think they hold all knowledge. For example take a look at the whole Baul tradition it is being watered down and distorted to such a degree, what you see today is not what it was even 30 years ago.
One may ask why is Nabani Das Baul's name not written about in Rabindranaths writings, it is because Nabani being a real Baul Sadhu and he never wanted to be known.
He was a deep Baul sadhaka this was the way of avadhuta's who preformed a lot of sadhana, it is only now these stories and photos will come to fruition because who would have thought all would be so distorted, who would have thought the world would be so changed after thousands of years, who would of thought that the Bauls would become so cut off from their roots, and the oral traditions would die.
The information presented here between the relationship between Nabani Das Baul and Rabindranath Tagore is just a small sampling, we will write more as things are published into books, which in the Baul tradition it was never meant to be but times have changed and this is a must to preserve this tradition called Baul of Bengal. Of course we are not going to provide all for facebook.
If we did this would be irresponsible, we are only providing enough to just say there is more to the story, the person in the photo that is being passed around is one of the most influential legendary Bauls from an ancient lineage. The picture was take by Rabindranath Tagore himself, for anyone doing research on the Bauls of Bengal and Tagore.
The first thing that one should know is Baul is an oral tradition, and one can only properly talk about Baul if one is inside the tradtion, all stories written abou the Baul are mostly copy and paste, so if one wants to learn about Baul and write about their relationship between Tagore one should at least know Baul 101 or all research is defunct, you must get both sides of the story. The second thing one should know is that there is more to the story, be humble, not all is presented here and not all is found in a book of copy and paste. At least first know who the Baul is in the picture, it is not just some Baul, it is a Baul saint and probably one of the last authentic original lineage Bauls.
Rabindranath called Nabani names like khyeppa, actually he gave Nabani the name Khyeppa before this no one was called khyeppa Baul, today many have taken this name. He also called Nabani "Mirror of the Sky"... he used nic names for Nabani Das Baul. Nabain Das Baul was a great poet and the songs Bauls are singing are songs written by Nabani Das Baul. It was this peotry that drew Nabani Das and Rabindranath together as great friends. Poets like to hang out with poets.
There were also some other famous Bengal writers who were so connected and very close friends of Nabani Das Baul, this we know because of the relationship that this lineage Baul and their long relationships with the families of the poets and the Tagore family. Through this association, and over time Rabindranath became Baul. Nabani gave Rabindranath the name Ravi (Robi) Baul, and gave him a guduri (dress), this is how a Baul traditionally inititated one into the Baul tradition.
Many top poets from around the world would travel to see them, they were all intringued, thus Rabindranath started the Poush Mela in honour of Sri Nabani Das Kyappa Baul. Most people do not know this or the history because has not been written about.. and everything that is written is just repeated over and over.. the same story half of it not true.
Rabindranath named the bridge at the Pous Mela Nabani Das Setu. Nabani Das's name has not been preserved the way it should have been, now is the time to start to tell his story. At Tagore University outside the prayer room there is a tree where Nabani Das used to sit, it it preserved there to this day.
Rabindranath Tagore would say to Nabani Das, "You are you a mad maker machine, you have completely changed me with your song, dance, and your smile." You must understand Bauls are more than just poets and philosopher, they are escsatic mystics, sadhaka's, there is something extra-ordinary about a Baul, the lineage is in the poetry in the song and this is what can not help draw the spectator into the bhava of baul. Perhaps it was the poetry that drew Tagore towards Nabani Das Bauls lineage and then hardly no one could refuse the undeniable flow of God intoxication or flow of rasa that Nabani created when he sang his Baul poetry and danced with his Gugubi which he called Ananda Lahari and his Gopi chand now called ektara.
Rabindranath wrote about Nabani Das and used the tune from a Nabani Das Baul song for Rabindranath's song about Nabani Das Baul called.. "Amare paraye paraye khepia berai".... Rabindranath Tagore wrote this song and dedicated to Nabani Das (Khappa Baul) "
Rabindranath Tagore started the Pous Mela in honour of my grandfather Sri Nabani Das Khyappa Baul. Rabindranath created this festival to bring all the poets of the world together and to preserve Bengali culture in Shantiniketan. Tagore also named the bridge at the Pous Mela, the "Nabani Setu" after my Grandfather Sri Nabani Das Baul as he was the first Baul to be introduced through the Pous Mela, he opened the door for other Bauls at the Pous Mela which now has become a Baul Mela. This is Baul history, Nabani Das Baul is a legenadary Baul Saint, not just a poet or playwrite he is a lineage Baul from the roots of Baul going back thousands of years. He is from the lineage of Baul going back 9 generations to Sri Nityananada of Ekkchaka, the best friend of Sri Chaitanya, and going back thousands of years before this. If one wants to write or do research about Tagore and Baul first one has to understand what a Baul is?
Nabani Das Baul was the biggest attraction for the Joy Dev Mela, Rabindranath said to Nabani Das you go to the Joy Dev Mela why not start a Mela here in Shantinekatan to bring together all the poets and storytellers from around the world. He thought Nabani Das would be the biggest attraction for everybody. Rabindranath photographed Nabani Das Baul and you can even view these photographs in the Royal British Museum in London and also on my icon above in yellow. He created a meditation spot for Nabani Das just opposite the glass room in Shantiniketan.
Allen Ginsberg suggested that Nabani Das Baul come to Woodstock New York, Nabani Das Baul could not go or perhaps he would not go, as he was not well, he sent his son’s, Purna Das Baul and Luxman Das Baul to Woodstock and America in 1967, this was the beginning of this families legendary association with Bob Dylan.
You can see Purna Das Baul and Luxman Das Baul on the cover of Bob Dylans, ‘John Westly Harding’ album. This was the first time any Baul had come to North America, Purna Das had already traveled to Russia and all over India. Purna Das Baul has now been traveling for over 70 years.
Krishnendu Das Baul has been traveling for over 40 years around the world, with his father and mother at first, and then by myself, continuous traveling, promoting Baul, lecturing about Baul. It is not easy to do because most people have short attention spans. It is easy for the new Baul singers to change the story, to make up their own story and undue any of the work that has been done? As i said they sing the songs composed by my grandfather, my family and never mention who composed the songs mostly because they do not know? Baul is and always has been for thousands of years been based on Indian Philosophy, The Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads...
Nabani Das Khyappa Baul was already famous through his ecstatic Baul sadhana and divine ecstatic singing that would propel even a casual passerby into the bhava divine blissful God intoxication. This is what a lineage is, this is what Baul singing is about, it is not about singing a folk song.
Babukishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul born in Suri Birbhum West Bengal India into a many thousand year old Baul lineage. Grandson of Nabani Das Baul, eldest son of Purna Das Baul.
Rabindranath called Nabani names like khyeppa, actually he gave Nabani the name Khyeppa before this no one was called khyeppa Baul, today many have taken this name. He also called Nabani "Mirror of the Sky"... he used nic names for Nabani Das Baul. Nabain Das Baul was a great poet and the songs Bauls are singing are songs written by Nabani Das Baul. It was this peotry that drew Nabani Das and Rabindranath together as great friends. Poets like to hang out with poets.
There were also some other famous Bengal writers who were so connected and very close friends of Nabani Das Baul, this we know because of the relationship that this lineage Baul and their long relationships with the families of the poets and the Tagore family. Through this association, and over time Rabindranath became Baul. Nabani gave Rabindranath the name Ravi (Robi) Baul, and gave him a guduri (dress), this is how a Baul traditionally inititated one into the Baul tradition.
Many top poets from around the world would travel to see them, they were all intringued, thus Rabindranath started the Poush Mela in honour of Sri Nabani Das Kyappa Baul. Most people do not know this or the history because has not been written about.. and everything that is written is just repeated over and over.. the same story half of it not true.
Rabindranath named the bridge at the Pous Mela Nabani Das Setu. Nabani Das's name has not been preserved the way it should have been, now is the time to start to tell his story. At Tagore University outside the prayer room there is a tree where Nabani Das used to sit, it it preserved there to this day.
Rabindranath Tagore would say to Nabani Das, "You are you a mad maker machine, you have completely changed me with your song, dance, and your smile." You must understand Bauls are more than just poets and philosopher, they are escsatic mystics, sadhaka's, there is something extra-ordinary about a Baul, the lineage is in the poetry in the song and this is what can not help draw the spectator into the bhava of baul. Perhaps it was the poetry that drew Tagore towards Nabani Das Bauls lineage and then hardly no one could refuse the undeniable flow of God intoxication or flow of rasa that Nabani created when he sang his Baul poetry and danced with his Gugubi which he called Ananda Lahari and his Gopi chand now called ektara.
Rabindranath wrote about Nabani Das and used the tune from a Nabani Das Baul song for Rabindranath's song about Nabani Das Baul called.. "Amare paraye paraye khepia berai".... Rabindranath Tagore wrote this song and dedicated to Nabani Das (Khappa Baul) "
Rabindranath Tagore started the Pous Mela in honour of my grandfather Sri Nabani Das Khyappa Baul. Rabindranath created this festival to bring all the poets of the world together and to preserve Bengali culture in Shantiniketan. Tagore also named the bridge at the Pous Mela, the "Nabani Setu" after my Grandfather Sri Nabani Das Baul as he was the first Baul to be introduced through the Pous Mela, he opened the door for other Bauls at the Pous Mela which now has become a Baul Mela. This is Baul history, Nabani Das Baul is a legenadary Baul Saint, not just a poet or playwrite he is a lineage Baul from the roots of Baul going back thousands of years. He is from the lineage of Baul going back 9 generations to Sri Nityananada of Ekkchaka, the best friend of Sri Chaitanya, and going back thousands of years before this. If one wants to write or do research about Tagore and Baul first one has to understand what a Baul is?
Nabani Das Baul was the biggest attraction for the Joy Dev Mela, Rabindranath said to Nabani Das you go to the Joy Dev Mela why not start a Mela here in Shantinekatan to bring together all the poets and storytellers from around the world. He thought Nabani Das would be the biggest attraction for everybody. Rabindranath photographed Nabani Das Baul and you can even view these photographs in the Royal British Museum in London and also on my icon above in yellow. He created a meditation spot for Nabani Das just opposite the glass room in Shantiniketan.
Allen Ginsberg suggested that Nabani Das Baul come to Woodstock New York, Nabani Das Baul could not go or perhaps he would not go, as he was not well, he sent his son’s, Purna Das Baul and Luxman Das Baul to Woodstock and America in 1967, this was the beginning of this families legendary association with Bob Dylan.
You can see Purna Das Baul and Luxman Das Baul on the cover of Bob Dylans, ‘John Westly Harding’ album. This was the first time any Baul had come to North America, Purna Das had already traveled to Russia and all over India. Purna Das Baul has now been traveling for over 70 years.
Krishnendu Das Baul has been traveling for over 40 years around the world, with his father and mother at first, and then by myself, continuous traveling, promoting Baul, lecturing about Baul. It is not easy to do because most people have short attention spans. It is easy for the new Baul singers to change the story, to make up their own story and undue any of the work that has been done? As i said they sing the songs composed by my grandfather, my family and never mention who composed the songs mostly because they do not know? Baul is and always has been for thousands of years been based on Indian Philosophy, The Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads...
Nabani Das Khyappa Baul was already famous through his ecstatic Baul sadhana and divine ecstatic singing that would propel even a casual passerby into the bhava divine blissful God intoxication. This is what a lineage is, this is what Baul singing is about, it is not about singing a folk song.
Babukishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul born in Suri Birbhum West Bengal India into a many thousand year old Baul lineage. Grandson of Nabani Das Baul, eldest son of Purna Das Baul.
Shantiniketan Bengal, Brajabala Dasi and Nabani Das Khyappa Baul @ Vishva Bharti University
Sculpture of Nabani Das Baul by Ram Kinker Baij who was a close friend of Nabani's...
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Copyright, do not poach, this is as told only by Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul, these are only his stories and not to be used on youtube channels to promote fake pretendian Bauls and then mislead or gaslight people that there are over 20,000 Bauls left in Birbhum, this is indigenous Fraud. Already you have stolen this lineages songs, style and are try to fundraise to preserve Baul in the name of a fake Baul Guru and a fake lineage. Do not tell this lineages stories for your own social media fake fame. Stop copying Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Purna Das Baul and Babu Kishan's stories, songs, style and already lived lives that are part of a completed Baul history.
Indigenous Baul Fraud, Indigenous Baul Identity theft!
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