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KD Babukishan ... Osho... and The Bauls of Bengal

4/21/2012

 
Babukishan - Osho - & The Bauls of Bengal

A Baul from Birth born in the village of Suri Birbhum W Bengal given at birth and handed to his grandparents Nabani Das Kheppa Baul and Brajabala Dasi they named him Krishnendu now KD Babukishan. 

Osho knew Babukishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul personally he did not know any other Bauls, he wrote 2 books on Bauls that are not completely accurate. Babukishan, asked him to change the books, he said he would but he passed away before these books could be changed. Babukishan spent many, many hours with OSHO talking about the Bauls of Bengal.

The books on Baul Osho wrote are way too simplistic with many assumptions made about who and what the Bauls of Bengal are, you must remember Osho is not a Baul he is not from Bengal. 

Osho said Bauls were not philosophers, that is not true they are the biggest of philosophers, they are poets and most Bauls are singing the poetry from this lineage or Lalon Fakir's poetry which nobody knew until this family went back to Bangladesh in the 1970's and recorded it thus Baul became associated with Lalon Fakir. 

Manju Das, (Babu's birth mother) was from Bangladesh and her father was a Sanskrit Professor at Dhakha University, in 1952 they had to flee for their lives because Jogesh Das spoke Bengali and Sanskrit. There were not any Bauls in Bangladesh in those day or very few, there however, dervish, Fakir, Sai, Shah which somehow got lumped in as Baul but they are not they are all Sufi, Baul for thousand of years has been based on Indian Philosophy, they accepted all people who rejected by other groups including Sufi. Bauls talked about everybody, you will not necessarily find that with Sufi or other groups mostly they talk about Allah. 

Many students at the University of Dhakka were killed during the 1952 student protests Wikipedia only mentions 4 there were many others including Jogesh Das's brother who was beheaded. 

Baul is simple if you grew up with the Guru and spoke sanskrit, learning all the philosophy from birth it is really easy if you are from the lineage. It is a Guru parampara tradition, too many people write inaccuracies about he Bauls because Bauls do not give out information easily. Babukishan also knows most of the scholars who have written books about the Bauls and he himself has written 3 books about the Bauls back in the 1980's, the real Bauls are basically extinct they need accurate preservation not speculation and a rewriting of what is already inaccurately written.

This below statement made by Osho is accurate is some ways and in some ways if you take this literally it is totally inaccurate and over simplified. What Osho said regarding the Bauls of Bengal is just fluff he never knew any Bauls other than Babukishan and he had written the books before he met Babu and passed away before he could fulfill his promise to Babukshan to change the books.

Worldwide Copyright all rights reserved 2012 as this is all being written about and will be in our book "Baul Unplugged. The true story of The Bauls of Bengal written by a living lineage holder. by Babukishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul 
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"To be a Baul nothing is needed. In fact, the moment you need nothing, you become a Baul. The moment you are unburdened and you don't possess anything, any past, you are a Baul. No, things like that are never originated. Nobody creates them; they happen. They are part of nature.

Source - Osho Book "The Beloved, Vol 1" — withBaul Guru.

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4/20/2012

 

RIP Levon HelmLevon

 Helm and Babukishan in Woodstock @ party for Babu's album Gypsy India and Al Aronowitz's book signing for Bob Dylan & The Beatles.... Levon telling eveybody Babu is the special guest... Babu played for them.. So much Love.. I have to laugh at myself because I did not really know who Levon Helm was before I met Babukishan I think I missed that whole The Band thing, so here comes Babu from India and I hear story after story of over 30 years of association with people like George Harrison, Bob Dylan & The Band, The Rolling Stones and Beach Boys on and on.. Another great picture of Babu teaching Levon Indian Drum. 
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Tree's are amazing storytellers, they record the earth's history, if you take a moment to honor and talk to them they will bless you with wisdom.

4/3/2012

 
This ancient olive tree is located on the Greek island of Crete and is one of seven olive trees in the Mediterranean believed to be at least 2,000 to 3,000 years old. Although its exact age cannot be verified, the Olive Tree of Vouves might be the oldest among them, estimated at over 3,000 years old. It still produces olives, and they are highly prized. Olive trees are hardy and drought-, disease- and fire-resistant — part of the reason for their longevity and their widespread use in the region. 
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Mahalia Jackson visits Purna Das in Calcutta late 60's...

4/1/2012

 
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Mahalia Jackson soul singer from America and Purna Das Baul soul singer from the East..

Mahalia Jackson loved Purna Dasji Baul, (Babukishan's Dad) she was a vistor at their house in Kolkata. Mahalia Jackson was  a famous American soul singer, Baul Samarat (king of Bauls) Purna Das a famous Indian soul singer from Bengal. Purna Das is a legendary Baul singer and Indian Vocalist no Baul before or after has achieved what Purna Das has now almost 80 years old he has traveled the world for almost 70 years, he is the first to do what many Bauls today are trying to do. He has played on the biggest stages around the world and is highly awarded singer.

He is a classical Baul singer and rich classic traditional authentic Vaishnava Baul and most of his music was composed by Babukishan starting when Babu was 9 years old. Babu says his house was always filled with the who is who of legendary India and guests from around the world. Ther is no Baul singer before him or after him who can sing like him, he is a legend.

No Baul to this day can sing like Purna Das, however,  they sing the songs of his lineage, they dress like Purna Das who created his own style. I have read on the internet that the Bauls sang with Mahalia Jackson, only Purna Das has please use his name no other Baul sang with Mahalia Jackson.

I have read the Bauls are associated with Bob Dylan, The Beattles, The Rolling Stones, Allen Ginsberg and in actual fact it is only this family Purna Das Baul and Babukishan who has associated or sang with these people. But somehow they leave this out and new Bauls singers claim this history with out mentioning Purna Das Baul???  They sing the songs from this lineage most writen by Nabani Das Baul or Babukishan and acestors without mentioning the authors or poets, when you see a poem by Rumi or any other Poet out of respect the name of the author is mentioned?? 

What most people do not know is that "The Bauls of Bengal" is the name of the group that traveled with Baul Samarat Purna Das, the groups name created by Purna Das when he first came to the USA to live at Bob Dylans back in the late 60's. "The Bauls of Bengal"  were called Vaishnava Bauls or Gosai Das Baul and Gosai Dasi Baul previous to Purna Das calling his group of traveling Bauls, "The Bauls of Bengal". He is the first Bauls to sing on the trains in India, the first Baul to travel outside of India. He is the first Indian Vocalist to travel outside of India starting in the 1950's.

When Bhaktivedanata Prabupada first came to New York, Purna Das Baul and his younger brother Laxshman Das Baul sang for Prabupada in Central Park. Prabupada knew them personally he knew they were direct descendants of Sri Nitai and he knew they were the original Hare Krishna singers of Bengal, he knew they were the Das and Dasi but was ambitious and chose to give their names and their story away to promote Krishna Consciousness to the world, he also chose to tell all of his disciple not to talk to his very own God brothers at Gaudiya Math telling them they were all jealous of hiim???. He also knew Purna's father "Nabani Das Baul" and Purna's father inlaw Jogesh Das who was a good friend of Prabupada's from back in Calcutta. When we get back to Calcutta we have pictures of this history and will put them together, it seems a picture in todays world says a million words.

For at least 30 years this family sang for Krishna at Iskcon temples around the world, they were used as a fundraising attraction for the temples. However, through my research I have come across very ApaVasihnava behavior now of disrespect and name calling starting from the leaders before Prabupada now printed and spread all over the internet the blatant putting down of the Bauls and name calling.

This is the lineage of Vaishnava Baul of Sri Nityananada of Ekkchakra Bengal India.

Nabani Das Baul (his father) was his Guru of course but in a Bauls lifetime they have other Guru's and one other being Sri Sitaram Das Omkarnath (he was a great Sadhu friend of Nabani Das Baul) whom Babu also loved and recieved many blessings from. It was Sitaram Das Omkarnath who encourage Purna Das to travel on the trains and sing for dakshina as at the time there was a famine in Bengal he used the money to feed his brothers and sisters.

Mahalia Jackson, Amala Shankar a great Nataraja dancer and wife of Uday Shankar, the brother of Ravi Shankar all family friends. Uday Shankar was the first Indian dancer to spread Indian dance to the west, he also is the first person to take his brother Ravi Shankar to the West..Manju Dasi and Baul Samarat Purna Das Baul

Sri Purna Das Baul, Baul Samarat his wife Manju Dasi the first Baul women to travel the world, Mahalia Jackson

In Purna Das's house in Calcutta

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