Copy Right 2010 - 2040
The first tenant of Baul is tell the truth, to be a truth talker.
All rights reserved by Babu Kishan.
Means no copying, reproducing or telling of any of these stories, do no take the names off and say Baul was associated with? YOU ARE NOT! Then present this information as if you knew everything, as if you were associated? NO Writing or name dropping these stories as if you are the one who knew everything. No name dropping.
This game has gone on for decades too long, and has become viral used in writing and in documentaries? Using Baul has become an industry! No using these stories or random associations in Documentaries or youtube. Not your associations or stories to tell.
No poaching, stealing, hijacking, deleting names, or taking any information about the Bauls of Bengal or anything written about Baul on this page or web site.
Too many telling untruths and watering down, reducing who and what Baul is and where they come from, creating false narratives and stories, Baul songs or making false associations with Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Rolling Stones on and on, these stories are mostly Babu Kishan's and are only this lineages story to tell.
I can see who copies and pastes from this web site, who visits all my blogs. I have seen all over years now.
If you want to use anything contact: Babu Kishan
Please contact him at babukishanproductions@gmail.com
I have repeated it, repeated it, now who uses truly is a user and will be called out.
"Be aware of false Knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance".
George Bernard Shaw
Copyright 2010 and way before to 2040 and beyond.
All rights reserved.
Do not use in Books, research, or documentaries!
Contact; Babu Kishan
The first tenant of Baul is tell the truth, to be a truth talker.
All rights reserved by Babu Kishan.
Means no copying, reproducing or telling of any of these stories, do no take the names off and say Baul was associated with? YOU ARE NOT! Then present this information as if you knew everything, as if you were associated? NO Writing or name dropping these stories as if you are the one who knew everything. No name dropping.
This game has gone on for decades too long, and has become viral used in writing and in documentaries? Using Baul has become an industry! No using these stories or random associations in Documentaries or youtube. Not your associations or stories to tell.
No poaching, stealing, hijacking, deleting names, or taking any information about the Bauls of Bengal or anything written about Baul on this page or web site.
Too many telling untruths and watering down, reducing who and what Baul is and where they come from, creating false narratives and stories, Baul songs or making false associations with Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Rolling Stones on and on, these stories are mostly Babu Kishan's and are only this lineages story to tell.
I can see who copies and pastes from this web site, who visits all my blogs. I have seen all over years now.
If you want to use anything contact: Babu Kishan
Please contact him at babukishanproductions@gmail.com
I have repeated it, repeated it, now who uses truly is a user and will be called out.
"Be aware of false Knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance".
George Bernard Shaw
Copyright 2010 and way before to 2040 and beyond.
All rights reserved.
Do not use in Books, research, or documentaries!
Contact; Babu Kishan
Mirror of the Sky - Ananda Lahari
Kali Krishna Tantric Vaishnava Baul Akhara 'Ashram'
Copy Right 2010 - 2040
Do not copy
Stop the Intellectual Liquidation of this one and only lineage!
There is no other Baul lineage, there never has been another!
Many will say, Baul is associated with, making Babu Kishan's stories generic, and others in this lineage stories generic. When you hear any person use generic terms regarding Baul, such as making associations that never existed they are appropriating Baul.
Any generalizations or random association in statements about Baul are false associations! Statements such as Baul is associated with Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, George Harrison, Bollywood, Rabindranath Tagore ect. and then posting a picture of a random Baul on the next page or in a poster is intellectual property theft and cultural appropriation.
Using Baul through false association.
They take the names off and take credit for stories that belong to this lineage.
Making new lineages up.
These stories and name dropping from Babu Kishan's life stories do not belong to you?
They are not your stories, they are the life and intellectual property of Babu Kishan.
The new Bauls who are 'dramatic singers' make up lineages (Sampradaya's)! And dance Nabani Das Khyapa style Ektara (Gopi Yantra) Baya (waist drum) and Nupur (a metal style of ankle bells) with no credit given, singing Nabani Das Khyapa Baul songs and putting other poets names on, however, saying Bauls do not care who the poets are. This is intellectual and Cultural property theft.
Baul is extinct and Babu Kishan has preserved it back in the 1960's.
His Grandfather Guru (Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and Grandmother Guru (Brajabala Dasi) are his Guru's!
Born in Birbhum almost 60 years ago and has seen all and was raised by the last of the only lineage Bauls of Bengal.
Babu Kishan is the eldest grandchild and the only one who took them both as Guru's from Birth because his birth father Purna Das Baul and birth mother Manju Dasi, left him as a baby to die in Birbhum and went back to Calcutta without looking back, they had 2 other son's and forgot about their eldest in Birbhum?
Nabani Das Khyapa Baul gave all to Babu Kishan he even named him Krishnendu and kept him with him 24/7 having him blessed by all the Saints, Yogi's, Tantric's, Naths, Guru's of the early 1960's in Birbhum. Nabani brought Babu Kishan as a baby to Tarapith and the burning grounds and prayed to Tara Ma to heal him, she did and thus Tara Maa a Mahavidya and Kali have always been with Babu Kishan.
At roughly 8 years of age in 1969, Nabani passed into samadhi and initiated Babu Kishan into a deep 9 day samadhi, that is why you can not see him at the picture of Nabani's samadhi he was gone for 9 days could not move or talk. Nabani passed all of his energy to Babu like a big electrical shock.
Mirror of the Sky - is the name Rabindranath Tagore gave Nabani Das Khyapa Baul
We know what we have written and all who write or have said in youtube talks about Baul are documented daily for fake teachings.
Name dropping Nabani, Bob Dylan, Rabindranath Tagore, no shame?
Baul has become watered down and reduced to a point, where nothing any outsider says is true anymore in this post truth era!
It seems people just make it up, now asking for donations, to preserve Baul when it has been preserved decades ago. Babu Kishan preserved Baul decades ago, the people today are singing this lineages songs, in desperation to be a Maa or Baba or saviour of Baul, some have taken the names off and added new names.
Literally Babu Kishan is embarrassed by what these women and men have done with Baul, so much so that he really wants nothing to do with Baul anymore, because he is embarrassed at the copy and paste.
All Purna Das Baul's famous music, was produced, recorded and Music was composed by his eldest Son Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das. Many of the Lyrics are also, by Babu Kishan which many all Bauls are singing on recorded youtube clips , with no credit given.
Lyrics and who wrote the poetry is part of Lineage Baul it has been for generations, it is important and if a Baul does not mention who wrote the poetry, it is because they do not know or are just using this lineage and perhaps even intentionally taking the name off. This is wrong and is mis-appropriation of Baul at a time when Baul is extinct or near extinction?
Lyrics matter, the poet matters especially when you are using what does not belong to you, intentionally trying to appropriate and liquidate this lineage, creating false narratives and trying to collect people for your fake lineage?
Making documentaries when you know not a drop about Baul, it is just about trying to get money from the United Nations, creating false narratives with fake Bauls, people who are not even Baul showing them all smoking ganja in a group?
Babu Kishan has seen this over 60 years people trying to use Baul in one way or another, writing books (academic speculations), creating documentaries (with people posing as Baul), using Baul music and creating and teaching false narrative.
This using always comes back to donations, money money money to use Baul creating fake lineages, making wrong associations about who is a Baul Guru, there is no such thing as Baul Masters?
Saying there are roughly 20,000 Baul in Birbhum when that is a complete lie?
The first tenant of Baul is to tell the truth!
Making Baul Muslim to collect funds, saying Baul is from Persia, Turkey or even saying you do not know, why are you fundraising collecting donations trying to be a Maa or Baba when you do not even know and using Nabani style Ektara, Baya and Nupoor (ankle bells) and Nabani's songs putting other poets name on the song? Telling people there are 4 or 5 types of Baul Sai, Dervish, Aul, fakir obvious you do not know anything about Baul but parading around the world?
Baul is not Muslim either.
Using Baul for Tantric Sex, the list goes on and one?
----------------------
The associations with this lineage only include:
this list will grow daily.
Sri Nityananda and the lineage coming out of his family of Ekachakra Birbhum Bengal, this is this lineages association only, in regards to Baul.
Jai Nitai
Rabindranath Tagore -
Nabani Das Khyappa Baul was the only Baul who initiated Tagore into Baul
Ektara Baya Nupoor, style of dance and song was created
by Nabani Das Khyapa Baul.
The patch work Guduri (dress) designed by Babu Kishan
Das Baul and Dasi this lineage only!
Baul Kirtan
Baul Guru
Bob Dylan
Allen Ginsberg
The Rolling Stones
George Harrison
Osho and Baul associated with Babu Kishan and Nabani Das Kyapa Baul only!
Baul Avadhut, this lineage only!
Pous Mela
Joy Dev Mela
Vaishnava Baul
Vaishnava Tantric Baul
Windcatchers
Rasa Lila Mystics
Baul explanation: Vayu Dharma, Vayu Tula
Ananda Lahari
Oral Tradition, Oral Sanskrit, Manuscripts, vernacular Birbhum dialect
Ektara/ Gopi Yantra/ Gopi Chand this lineage only!
Tarapith Tara Ma, Baul association was Nabani Das Khyapa Baul others followed?
Poetry of this Lineage archived by Babu Kishan, this list will grow
We are here to educate and tell the truth of who and what is Baul.
Kali Krishna Tantric Vaishnava Baul Akhara 'Ashram'
Copy Right 2010 - 2040
Do not copy
Stop the Intellectual Liquidation of this one and only lineage!
There is no other Baul lineage, there never has been another!
Many will say, Baul is associated with, making Babu Kishan's stories generic, and others in this lineage stories generic. When you hear any person use generic terms regarding Baul, such as making associations that never existed they are appropriating Baul.
Any generalizations or random association in statements about Baul are false associations! Statements such as Baul is associated with Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, George Harrison, Bollywood, Rabindranath Tagore ect. and then posting a picture of a random Baul on the next page or in a poster is intellectual property theft and cultural appropriation.
Using Baul through false association.
They take the names off and take credit for stories that belong to this lineage.
Making new lineages up.
These stories and name dropping from Babu Kishan's life stories do not belong to you?
They are not your stories, they are the life and intellectual property of Babu Kishan.
The new Bauls who are 'dramatic singers' make up lineages (Sampradaya's)! And dance Nabani Das Khyapa style Ektara (Gopi Yantra) Baya (waist drum) and Nupur (a metal style of ankle bells) with no credit given, singing Nabani Das Khyapa Baul songs and putting other poets names on, however, saying Bauls do not care who the poets are. This is intellectual and Cultural property theft.
Baul is extinct and Babu Kishan has preserved it back in the 1960's.
His Grandfather Guru (Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and Grandmother Guru (Brajabala Dasi) are his Guru's!
Born in Birbhum almost 60 years ago and has seen all and was raised by the last of the only lineage Bauls of Bengal.
Babu Kishan is the eldest grandchild and the only one who took them both as Guru's from Birth because his birth father Purna Das Baul and birth mother Manju Dasi, left him as a baby to die in Birbhum and went back to Calcutta without looking back, they had 2 other son's and forgot about their eldest in Birbhum?
Nabani Das Khyapa Baul gave all to Babu Kishan he even named him Krishnendu and kept him with him 24/7 having him blessed by all the Saints, Yogi's, Tantric's, Naths, Guru's of the early 1960's in Birbhum. Nabani brought Babu Kishan as a baby to Tarapith and the burning grounds and prayed to Tara Ma to heal him, she did and thus Tara Maa a Mahavidya and Kali have always been with Babu Kishan.
At roughly 8 years of age in 1969, Nabani passed into samadhi and initiated Babu Kishan into a deep 9 day samadhi, that is why you can not see him at the picture of Nabani's samadhi he was gone for 9 days could not move or talk. Nabani passed all of his energy to Babu like a big electrical shock.
Mirror of the Sky - is the name Rabindranath Tagore gave Nabani Das Khyapa Baul
We know what we have written and all who write or have said in youtube talks about Baul are documented daily for fake teachings.
Name dropping Nabani, Bob Dylan, Rabindranath Tagore, no shame?
Baul has become watered down and reduced to a point, where nothing any outsider says is true anymore in this post truth era!
It seems people just make it up, now asking for donations, to preserve Baul when it has been preserved decades ago. Babu Kishan preserved Baul decades ago, the people today are singing this lineages songs, in desperation to be a Maa or Baba or saviour of Baul, some have taken the names off and added new names.
Literally Babu Kishan is embarrassed by what these women and men have done with Baul, so much so that he really wants nothing to do with Baul anymore, because he is embarrassed at the copy and paste.
All Purna Das Baul's famous music, was produced, recorded and Music was composed by his eldest Son Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das. Many of the Lyrics are also, by Babu Kishan which many all Bauls are singing on recorded youtube clips , with no credit given.
Lyrics and who wrote the poetry is part of Lineage Baul it has been for generations, it is important and if a Baul does not mention who wrote the poetry, it is because they do not know or are just using this lineage and perhaps even intentionally taking the name off. This is wrong and is mis-appropriation of Baul at a time when Baul is extinct or near extinction?
Lyrics matter, the poet matters especially when you are using what does not belong to you, intentionally trying to appropriate and liquidate this lineage, creating false narratives and trying to collect people for your fake lineage?
Making documentaries when you know not a drop about Baul, it is just about trying to get money from the United Nations, creating false narratives with fake Bauls, people who are not even Baul showing them all smoking ganja in a group?
Babu Kishan has seen this over 60 years people trying to use Baul in one way or another, writing books (academic speculations), creating documentaries (with people posing as Baul), using Baul music and creating and teaching false narrative.
This using always comes back to donations, money money money to use Baul creating fake lineages, making wrong associations about who is a Baul Guru, there is no such thing as Baul Masters?
Saying there are roughly 20,000 Baul in Birbhum when that is a complete lie?
The first tenant of Baul is to tell the truth!
Making Baul Muslim to collect funds, saying Baul is from Persia, Turkey or even saying you do not know, why are you fundraising collecting donations trying to be a Maa or Baba when you do not even know and using Nabani style Ektara, Baya and Nupoor (ankle bells) and Nabani's songs putting other poets name on the song? Telling people there are 4 or 5 types of Baul Sai, Dervish, Aul, fakir obvious you do not know anything about Baul but parading around the world?
Baul is not Muslim either.
Using Baul for Tantric Sex, the list goes on and one?
----------------------
The associations with this lineage only include:
this list will grow daily.
Sri Nityananda and the lineage coming out of his family of Ekachakra Birbhum Bengal, this is this lineages association only, in regards to Baul.
Jai Nitai
Rabindranath Tagore -
Nabani Das Khyappa Baul was the only Baul who initiated Tagore into Baul
Ektara Baya Nupoor, style of dance and song was created
by Nabani Das Khyapa Baul.
The patch work Guduri (dress) designed by Babu Kishan
Das Baul and Dasi this lineage only!
Baul Kirtan
Baul Guru
Bob Dylan
Allen Ginsberg
The Rolling Stones
George Harrison
Osho and Baul associated with Babu Kishan and Nabani Das Kyapa Baul only!
Baul Avadhut, this lineage only!
Pous Mela
Joy Dev Mela
Vaishnava Baul
Vaishnava Tantric Baul
Windcatchers
Rasa Lila Mystics
Baul explanation: Vayu Dharma, Vayu Tula
Ananda Lahari
Oral Tradition, Oral Sanskrit, Manuscripts, vernacular Birbhum dialect
Ektara/ Gopi Yantra/ Gopi Chand this lineage only!
Tarapith Tara Ma, Baul association was Nabani Das Khyapa Baul others followed?
Poetry of this Lineage archived by Babu Kishan, this list will grow
We are here to educate and tell the truth of who and what is Baul.
"In 2005, UNESCO Declared the Baul Tradition a:
"Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity".
The above statement is nothing to be proud of!
Here is what you should know!
A Bangladeshi UN official wrote a thesis, to obtain 9 million dollars to preserve Baul through the United Nations, he disappeared. Really noting has been done to preserve Baul other than a little bit of random. His writing were based on Baul being a Persian term and being from Persia. Which is 100% NOT true.
Scholars are trying to see if they copy and paste enough, from scholars to obtain funds if they can create a template to do the same? The scholars have all written wrong about Baul, the system is broken and it is really boring qualifying all, but the qualifying book by book will be done. It has to, if something belonged to you, you would care, if it did not belong to you, you would not care, simple and might even make fun! You, might even appropriate all the Babu Kishan has written, cherry picking and then presenting yourself as an authority on Baul in Youtube video's?
Babu Kishan has had so much personal experience with this and he knew all the scholars who wrote on Baul from the 1960's onward and person friendships with Carol Solomon obtained funds and had Babu sign for her funding. Then she hid and wrote about Lalon Fakir as a Baul? When it came to bring a Baul in after she obtained money for this project which she said she would include Babu Kishan in, she brought in a random Baul for free. This is the way, it has been really difficult. It has happened over and over. Babu has helped more scholars that anyone with their thesis, very few give credit, and they have not explained Baul correctly, when he has asked them to change it, they avoid him.
Writing about Baul from outside Baul and making documentaries about Baul has created a cultural genocide of Baul, it continues. From outside Baul can be people who are not trained under a lineage Baul, or scholars who speculate, people with ulterior motives of collecting funds or awards to make them legitimate.
Babu knew Carol since the late 70's when she first came to India. He did Master classes in her classes at the University of Washington and the last time he saw her at her home in Seattle Washington 2008 she passed away in 2009. I was with Babu at her home in 2008. RIP Carol but there is a example and story here.
This using of Baul, Babu Kishan has watched since the 1960's.
The Baul's in India were a side note, but again using, Bauls are associated with Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg and George Harrison, using stories from this lineage and songs but not naming the poets?
Saying Bauls followed Baba Pagla when they did not or the so called Bauls were not Bauls. All this waters down and reduced Baul, twisting truths everyday. It is a way to get funds, creating new narratives, it is a way to obtain government funds, funds at universities, United Nation funds, and Indian awards.
No one on this earth would even know about Baul without this lineage, however, today they a side note not even mentioned, Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and Brajabala Dasi, Purna Das Baul and Babu Kishan mostly outside of India. The
The term Baul is made of 2 Sanskrit words, Vayu Tula, B is V in Bengal thus, Vayu = Bayu, Tula is to balance, balance what the vital airs (prana) through the breath. Bauls practice what they call as what Babu Kishan explained to me Vayu Dharma is Pranayama through their singing and other techniques.
Vayu Tula = Bayutula, Batula = Baula = Baul, Bauls always shorten things down, this does not mean the watering down and the reductionism that is going on today.
The oral part of Baul is oral Sanskrit. I would suppose anybody using this statement understands that the oral is oral Sanskrit and has been taught by their Guru!
It is impossible to preserve the Bauls of Bangladesh because they never existed, Sai Aul Dervish and Fakir are NOT Baul they are Islamic Sufi and different from Baul.
I have to laugh, they say, Baul does not care who the poets are? You are not even close to being a Baul if you do not know?
Everybody is cheating so why not make a new narrative and cheat this indigenous Baul lineage?
This lineage the only Baul lineage a Sanskrit oral Baul lineage and tradition always knows who wrote the poetry!
Muslims do not speak or write in Sanskrit, it is not their tradition. Urdu is not Baul? Bauls are only from Birbhum!
The term Baul is made of 2 Sanskrit words, Vayu Tula, B is V in Bengal thus, Vayu = Bayu, Tula is to balance, balance what the vital airs (prana) through the breath. Bauls practice what they call as what Babu Kishan explained to me Vayu Dharma is Pranayama through their singing and other techniques.
Vayu Tula = Bayutula, Batula = Baula = Baul, Bauls always shorten things down, this does not mean the watering down and the reductionism that is going on today.
Knowing who wrote the poetry is part of the authentic Baul tradition LINEAGE!
Who wrote the BAUL poetry today is of huge significance more today than ever!
With Baul being appropriated and watered down, saying it doesn’t matter who wrote the Bengali songs and yes Kirtans, is adharma (against Baul dharma, but not just Baul against all dhrama) the eternal Dharma.
When you quote Aurobindo or Ramakrisha you always write who wrote it, but when it comes to Baul it is a free for all?
You want to preserve Baul? Stop using Baul!
Put the correct poets name on the poetry?
Muslims and Islamist were never Baul, so preserving something that is under their umbrella is not Baul, if it came out of Bangladesh they all say they are Music Composer or that Qawwali is Baul while posting a picture of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul in your articles? Nabani never ever sang any Qawwali and Baul is not associated with Qawwali?
Babu Kishan knows well what is Qawwali and what is Baul because he has recorded and produced music from some of the top Qawwali artists, he say's no way Qawwali is not Baul?
Baul Archive on Lineage Baul Blog since 2010
"Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity".
The above statement is nothing to be proud of!
Here is what you should know!
A Bangladeshi UN official wrote a thesis, to obtain 9 million dollars to preserve Baul through the United Nations, he disappeared. Really noting has been done to preserve Baul other than a little bit of random. His writing were based on Baul being a Persian term and being from Persia. Which is 100% NOT true.
Scholars are trying to see if they copy and paste enough, from scholars to obtain funds if they can create a template to do the same? The scholars have all written wrong about Baul, the system is broken and it is really boring qualifying all, but the qualifying book by book will be done. It has to, if something belonged to you, you would care, if it did not belong to you, you would not care, simple and might even make fun! You, might even appropriate all the Babu Kishan has written, cherry picking and then presenting yourself as an authority on Baul in Youtube video's?
Babu Kishan has had so much personal experience with this and he knew all the scholars who wrote on Baul from the 1960's onward and person friendships with Carol Solomon obtained funds and had Babu sign for her funding. Then she hid and wrote about Lalon Fakir as a Baul? When it came to bring a Baul in after she obtained money for this project which she said she would include Babu Kishan in, she brought in a random Baul for free. This is the way, it has been really difficult. It has happened over and over. Babu has helped more scholars that anyone with their thesis, very few give credit, and they have not explained Baul correctly, when he has asked them to change it, they avoid him.
Writing about Baul from outside Baul and making documentaries about Baul has created a cultural genocide of Baul, it continues. From outside Baul can be people who are not trained under a lineage Baul, or scholars who speculate, people with ulterior motives of collecting funds or awards to make them legitimate.
Babu knew Carol since the late 70's when she first came to India. He did Master classes in her classes at the University of Washington and the last time he saw her at her home in Seattle Washington 2008 she passed away in 2009. I was with Babu at her home in 2008. RIP Carol but there is a example and story here.
This using of Baul, Babu Kishan has watched since the 1960's.
The Baul's in India were a side note, but again using, Bauls are associated with Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg and George Harrison, using stories from this lineage and songs but not naming the poets?
Saying Bauls followed Baba Pagla when they did not or the so called Bauls were not Bauls. All this waters down and reduced Baul, twisting truths everyday. It is a way to get funds, creating new narratives, it is a way to obtain government funds, funds at universities, United Nation funds, and Indian awards.
No one on this earth would even know about Baul without this lineage, however, today they a side note not even mentioned, Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and Brajabala Dasi, Purna Das Baul and Babu Kishan mostly outside of India. The
The term Baul is made of 2 Sanskrit words, Vayu Tula, B is V in Bengal thus, Vayu = Bayu, Tula is to balance, balance what the vital airs (prana) through the breath. Bauls practice what they call as what Babu Kishan explained to me Vayu Dharma is Pranayama through their singing and other techniques.
Vayu Tula = Bayutula, Batula = Baula = Baul, Bauls always shorten things down, this does not mean the watering down and the reductionism that is going on today.
The oral part of Baul is oral Sanskrit. I would suppose anybody using this statement understands that the oral is oral Sanskrit and has been taught by their Guru!
It is impossible to preserve the Bauls of Bangladesh because they never existed, Sai Aul Dervish and Fakir are NOT Baul they are Islamic Sufi and different from Baul.
I have to laugh, they say, Baul does not care who the poets are? You are not even close to being a Baul if you do not know?
Everybody is cheating so why not make a new narrative and cheat this indigenous Baul lineage?
This lineage the only Baul lineage a Sanskrit oral Baul lineage and tradition always knows who wrote the poetry!
Muslims do not speak or write in Sanskrit, it is not their tradition. Urdu is not Baul? Bauls are only from Birbhum!
The term Baul is made of 2 Sanskrit words, Vayu Tula, B is V in Bengal thus, Vayu = Bayu, Tula is to balance, balance what the vital airs (prana) through the breath. Bauls practice what they call as what Babu Kishan explained to me Vayu Dharma is Pranayama through their singing and other techniques.
Vayu Tula = Bayutula, Batula = Baula = Baul, Bauls always shorten things down, this does not mean the watering down and the reductionism that is going on today.
Knowing who wrote the poetry is part of the authentic Baul tradition LINEAGE!
Who wrote the BAUL poetry today is of huge significance more today than ever!
With Baul being appropriated and watered down, saying it doesn’t matter who wrote the Bengali songs and yes Kirtans, is adharma (against Baul dharma, but not just Baul against all dhrama) the eternal Dharma.
When you quote Aurobindo or Ramakrisha you always write who wrote it, but when it comes to Baul it is a free for all?
You want to preserve Baul? Stop using Baul!
Put the correct poets name on the poetry?
Muslims and Islamist were never Baul, so preserving something that is under their umbrella is not Baul, if it came out of Bangladesh they all say they are Music Composer or that Qawwali is Baul while posting a picture of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul in your articles? Nabani never ever sang any Qawwali and Baul is not associated with Qawwali?
Babu Kishan knows well what is Qawwali and what is Baul because he has recorded and produced music from some of the top Qawwali artists, he say's no way Qawwali is not Baul?
Baul Archive on Lineage Baul Blog since 2010
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Lineage Vaishnava Tantric Baul of Sri Nityananda of Ekachakra, this family this lineage are the ancestors of Sri Nityananda (Nitai) who was the elder best friend and associate of Sri Chaitanya MahaPrabhu. Jai Nitia as this lineage greats each other was around thousands of years before the modern Vaishnava movement of Sri Chaitanya.
Sri Nityananda was a Vaishnava Tantric Baul who is was called a Baul Avadhuta, he is from an oral Sanskrit indigenous ancient lineage. The Vaishnava Baul way of life was usurped by modern reformers & the orthodox. They took Nitai as their own without even knowing who or what was Vaishnava Baul. This lineage is Vaishnava Sahaja but they prefer to be called Baul Avadhut. 3 Brahma/Saraswati, Vishnu/Laxshmi, Shiva/Parvati. They are both dvaita Dual form and Non Dual advaita, no form. There is only one lineage of Vaishnava Tantric Baul and they are on the verge of extinction perhaps alread extinct. It is sad to see outsiders making up lineages and stories for no other reason that to be Ma and Baba. Those who write about Baul and those who have written about Baul are speculators, they copy and paste of wrong information about Baul. Everyday, someone will come out with a new book, a new paper, all wrong copy and paste of the same old scholars who copied. pasted and made it up as they go. This one and only lineage of Vaishnava Tantric Baul are indigenous to Birbhum, they are indigenous peoples and it is a cultural genocide that modern scholars are committing. The Vaishnava Tantric Bauls of Birbhum are an indigenous (Sanskrit) oral tradition. |
This lineage is the only Lineage of Bauls from Birbhum Bengal India, The only Pioneers who brought Baul to India and the World some 70 years ago.
All Bauls follow them. Tales will be told soon, new book to be released 2020/2021, better late than never. Baul has already been preserved by Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das 3 decades ago. One wonders why "New Baul Singers" now fundraising to preserve this Lineage, even they have appropriated the songs from this lineage, style of dress, and follow them around the world. Ektara Baya Nupoor was only Nabani Das Khyapa Bauls style. This lineages stories taken, their names off and the new names added. Associations that do not belong to them but everybody loves to mention Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, George Harrison, & The Rolling Stones. The only ones who had association was Purna Das Baul initially but it was only Babu Kishan who was long time friends for decades with these people, making false associations is (Cultural Appropriation). These new Baul singers have made up their own fake lineage that never ever existed but how would you know, just people making people stupid seems to be the game today. This Cultural Appropriation is leading to a Cultural Genocide of an indigenous people that have been around for thousands of years. Baul is extinct, all we can do is preserve it in context and correctly. So many are faking it til til you make it. This watering down and reductionism, through Baul singers overstating their authority, through scholars who continue to speculate. What do they have to lose, nothing, all they have is to make a career or a singing career? Just because one calls themselves a Baul does not mean they are, as in everything discretion and discernment are needed more and more today than ever in the history of humanity. The Vaishnava Tantric Bauls of Birbhum are an indigenous (Sanskrit) oral tradition. |
The Hare Krishna mantra is composed of Sanskrit names in the singular vocative case: Hare, Krishna, and Rama (in Anglicized spelling). The (IAST) transliteration from the Devanagari (devanāgarī) script of the three vocatives is hare, kṛṣṇa and rāma. It is a poetic stanza in anuṣṭubh meter (A quatrain of four lines (pāda) of eight syllables).
The mantra was popularized by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu roughly around 1500 CE when he began his mission to spread this mantra publicly to "every town and village" in the world, travelling throughout India, and especially within the areas of Bengal and Odisha.
The part that is left out is that the Baul Avadhut Sri Nityananada who was a Vaishnava Tantric Sahaja Baul Avadhut, is a ancestor of Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul. It was Nita who gave the mantra to the Nama Kirtan of the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra to Sri Chaitanya.
This mantra was chanted in villages of Birbhum Bengal by the Vaishnava Bauls long before Chaitanya made it popular. When the Vaishnava Bauls would enter the villages they would chant this mantra as a wake up call, wake up we are here to teach about life yoga and all axillary subjects of the Vedas. Vaishnava Bauls were oral Sanskritist, they were the Guru's the teachers to the people of Bengali villages.
hare kṛṣṇa hare kṛṣṇa
kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa hare hare
hare rāma hare rāma
rāma rāma hare hare
The mantra was popularized by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu roughly around 1500 CE when he began his mission to spread this mantra publicly to "every town and village" in the world, travelling throughout India, and especially within the areas of Bengal and Odisha.
The part that is left out is that the Baul Avadhut Sri Nityananada who was a Vaishnava Tantric Sahaja Baul Avadhut, is a ancestor of Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul. It was Nita who gave the mantra to the Nama Kirtan of the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra to Sri Chaitanya.
This mantra was chanted in villages of Birbhum Bengal by the Vaishnava Bauls long before Chaitanya made it popular. When the Vaishnava Bauls would enter the villages they would chant this mantra as a wake up call, wake up we are here to teach about life yoga and all axillary subjects of the Vedas. Vaishnava Bauls were oral Sanskritist, they were the Guru's the teachers to the people of Bengali villages.
hare kṛṣṇa hare kṛṣṇa
kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa hare hare
hare rāma hare rāma
rāma rāma hare hare
Raksha Kali
form of Kali worshipped for protection against epidemics and drought— or Durga ~ 18th-19th century.
Gallery London.
This is the village Kali of my husbands village, he would play on the steps of the temple as a toddler already talking to her, because she appeared and was real to him, of course she is real, that is why most who took photos of here the photo's disappeared. I believe she does not like to be seen other than at her village temples.
form of Kali worshipped for protection against epidemics and drought— or Durga ~ 18th-19th century.
Gallery London.
This is the village Kali of my husbands village, he would play on the steps of the temple as a toddler already talking to her, because she appeared and was real to him, of course she is real, that is why most who took photos of here the photo's disappeared. I believe she does not like to be seen other than at her village temples.
The above Painting by Halley Goswami
of Pouraniki FB page, Calcutta India
Dhyana mantra narrates the form of Raksha Kali:
“ The goddess is four armed and dark in complexion .
In her right hands she holds a khadaga ( scimitar ) and two blue lotuses and in her left hands she holds the kartrikaa ( flaying weapon ) and a skull cup .
She wears two munda-maalaas , one on her neck and one tied to her jataa dreadlocks .
Of the two jataas one rises up to touch the skies .
Her breasts are adorned with a necklace of naaga ( snake ) .
Her eyes are bloodshot and she wears black clothes and tiger skin .
She places her left leg on the chest of shava ( corpse ) and the right on back of a lion .
She is fearsome from drinking wine from her skull cup and she breaks into roaring laughters .
Another closely related form of devi , Shitalaa , is also associated with diseases , but she was more worshipped in connection with small pox epidemics .
(Please see link button under this description for more on Shitalaa Maa).
(বিপদে মোরে রক্ষা করো এ নহে মোর প্রার্থনা–
বিপদে আমি না যেন করি ভয়।)
She is worshipped her in homes and personal shrines .
She is sung Shyama sangeet of love and devotion .
A thousand, thousand shades
Of Death begrimed and black --
Scattering plagues and sorrows,
Dancing mad with joy,
Come, Mother, come!
For Terror is Thy name,
Death is in Thy breath,
And every shaking step
Destroys a world for e'er.
Thou "Time", the All-Destroyer!
Come, O Mother, come!
Who dares misery love,
And hug the form of Death,
Dance in Destruction's dance,
To him the Mother comes.
Swami Vivekananda
In the phalashruti chapter of Shri Shri Chandi or Devi Mahatmyam text , the goddess is clearly described as –
“ One who manifests as epidemics during the end of times pervades the universe as mahakaali . At the time of destruction she assumes the form of epidemics . It is she who also creates and sustains the living entities".
oṃ sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ
sarve santu nirāmayāḥ
sarve bhadrāṇi paśyantu mā kaścidduḥ khabhāgbhaveta।
oṃ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ॥
May all sentient beings be at peace,
may no one suffer from illness,
May all see what is auspicious, may no one suffer.
Om peace, peace, peace.
of Pouraniki FB page, Calcutta India
Dhyana mantra narrates the form of Raksha Kali:
“ The goddess is four armed and dark in complexion .
In her right hands she holds a khadaga ( scimitar ) and two blue lotuses and in her left hands she holds the kartrikaa ( flaying weapon ) and a skull cup .
She wears two munda-maalaas , one on her neck and one tied to her jataa dreadlocks .
Of the two jataas one rises up to touch the skies .
Her breasts are adorned with a necklace of naaga ( snake ) .
Her eyes are bloodshot and she wears black clothes and tiger skin .
She places her left leg on the chest of shava ( corpse ) and the right on back of a lion .
She is fearsome from drinking wine from her skull cup and she breaks into roaring laughters .
Another closely related form of devi , Shitalaa , is also associated with diseases , but she was more worshipped in connection with small pox epidemics .
(Please see link button under this description for more on Shitalaa Maa).
(বিপদে মোরে রক্ষা করো এ নহে মোর প্রার্থনা–
বিপদে আমি না যেন করি ভয়।)
She is worshipped her in homes and personal shrines .
She is sung Shyama sangeet of love and devotion .
A thousand, thousand shades
Of Death begrimed and black --
Scattering plagues and sorrows,
Dancing mad with joy,
Come, Mother, come!
For Terror is Thy name,
Death is in Thy breath,
And every shaking step
Destroys a world for e'er.
Thou "Time", the All-Destroyer!
Come, O Mother, come!
Who dares misery love,
And hug the form of Death,
Dance in Destruction's dance,
To him the Mother comes.
Swami Vivekananda
In the phalashruti chapter of Shri Shri Chandi or Devi Mahatmyam text , the goddess is clearly described as –
“ One who manifests as epidemics during the end of times pervades the universe as mahakaali . At the time of destruction she assumes the form of epidemics . It is she who also creates and sustains the living entities".
oṃ sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ
sarve santu nirāmayāḥ
sarve bhadrāṇi paśyantu mā kaścidduḥ khabhāgbhaveta।
oṃ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ॥
May all sentient beings be at peace,
may no one suffer from illness,
May all see what is auspicious, may no one suffer.
Om peace, peace, peace.
Ma Kali, you transform compassionately into graceful Krishna,
surrounded by circles of ecstatic maidens,
lovers in the intimate embrace of timeless beauty.
Your manifestations are infinite, O Mother, infinite the spiritual paths you generate.
Who can comprehend the fullness of your mystery?
~ Ramprasad Sen
surrounded by circles of ecstatic maidens,
lovers in the intimate embrace of timeless beauty.
Your manifestations are infinite, O Mother, infinite the spiritual paths you generate.
Who can comprehend the fullness of your mystery?
~ Ramprasad Sen
Radha worships Krishna who turns himself into Kali so her husband will not catch her with Krishna. Vaishnava Bauls of Birbhum worship Krishna and Kali.
6/30/2012 (My Bhakti Masala Blog)
Hindu tales narrate a nice story of how Krishna assumed the form of Kalee( Kali ) as a lila or divine play . The plot unflods in the puranic forest of Vrindavana where the cowherd Yadavas were peacefully residing with their much loved leader and friend , Sri Krishna.
Every night , hearing the flute of Krishna at midnight Srimati Radharani would quitely slip out from her home to secretly meet with her lover in the deep forests . However this was eventually observed by the shrewd sister in laws of Radha , Jatila and Kutila who informed her husband Ayan of his wife’s ‘adultery’.
Infuriated Ayan set off to punish the miscreant , into the deep woods . However the lord of all beings , Sri Krishna already knew what was in the air . He quickly asked Radha to pick up all the wild fruits and flowers that she could find and sit down at his feet in an worshupful gesture .
Radha obeyed to his commands and soon Krishna had himself transformed to Kali — the ishta or chosen deity of Ayan . and when Ayan finally arrived on the spot he found his wife doing puja of their family deity . Thus Srimati Radharani was saved .
In the last 500 years, shakti sadhaks of eastern India personally felt the unity of these two imoprtant forms of hindu pantheon . Many songs and poems were composed in honour of this united form which was named KRISHNA-KALI .
In many such song the sadhak poses himself as a little child requesting his loved mother to drop her ghastly look to assume the more pleasing form of Krishna with kadamba garlands , yellow robes and enchanting crown of flowers and peacock feathers .
This day is also commemorated in Bengal as Phalaharini Kalika Puja , which takes place in the amavasya(new moon might) of jyestha(april-may) month. this is a time when india is abound with scented flowers and sweetest of fruits like mango . so it is custom to offer all seasonal fruits to Kali at this day . offering of fruits also symbolises the surrender of ego and karmic reactions of a man to the supreme .
The video shows the transformation of Kali to Krishna set in the background of a song on the subject . It was written by a nineteenth century self realized kali sadhak known as Premik Maharaj . The first few lines of the song translates as.
” My mother has become Krishna on seeing the enchanting night of full moon in the season of spring .
My black moon(Kali) has now started the divine play of holi .
ah ! behold the mesmeric beauty on her body , which is now covered with coloured holi powders and blood .
Dakini , Sakini , Yogini , Hakini and all her other companions have become mad with divine love and thus have turned to gopinis (cowherd damsels).
Krishna Gave Darshan in the form of Kali
"(Amar Ujala) Navaratri is also being celebrated at the Kali Krishna temple in Gopinath Bazaar, Vrindavan. Although Vrindavan is generally associated with Krishna worship, there is a lot of Shakti worship going on here as well.
This is why the Kali Pith at this particular temple is considered an important place of worship in Vrindavan. One of the reasons given for this is that Krishna here appeared as Kali to Shrimati Radharani.
Krishna’s two arms became four, his flute became a scimitar, and the flower garland around his neck became a garland of skulls.
Head sevait of the Krishna Kali Pith, Keshavacharyaji, tells the story:
“Once Ayan Ghosh, Radha’s so-called husband, became doubtful that his wife was cheating on him. So one night, when Radha went to meet Krishna, he followed behind to try to catch them redhanded.
“But Krishna was aware of his plan and when Ayan came near, he took the form of Kali so that it appeared that Radha was engaged in secretly worshiping the Goddess in order to benefit her husband and his family. And so, instead of being angry with her, Ayan became respectful at seeing his devout and saintly wife engaged in religious activities on his behalf.”
The Kali Pith is said to be the place where this pastime transpired. Variations on this story can be found in other places, especially the last act of the Vidagdha-madhava."
6/30/2012 (My Bhakti Masala Blog)
Hindu tales narrate a nice story of how Krishna assumed the form of Kalee( Kali ) as a lila or divine play . The plot unflods in the puranic forest of Vrindavana where the cowherd Yadavas were peacefully residing with their much loved leader and friend , Sri Krishna.
Every night , hearing the flute of Krishna at midnight Srimati Radharani would quitely slip out from her home to secretly meet with her lover in the deep forests . However this was eventually observed by the shrewd sister in laws of Radha , Jatila and Kutila who informed her husband Ayan of his wife’s ‘adultery’.
Infuriated Ayan set off to punish the miscreant , into the deep woods . However the lord of all beings , Sri Krishna already knew what was in the air . He quickly asked Radha to pick up all the wild fruits and flowers that she could find and sit down at his feet in an worshupful gesture .
Radha obeyed to his commands and soon Krishna had himself transformed to Kali — the ishta or chosen deity of Ayan . and when Ayan finally arrived on the spot he found his wife doing puja of their family deity . Thus Srimati Radharani was saved .
In the last 500 years, shakti sadhaks of eastern India personally felt the unity of these two imoprtant forms of hindu pantheon . Many songs and poems were composed in honour of this united form which was named KRISHNA-KALI .
In many such song the sadhak poses himself as a little child requesting his loved mother to drop her ghastly look to assume the more pleasing form of Krishna with kadamba garlands , yellow robes and enchanting crown of flowers and peacock feathers .
This day is also commemorated in Bengal as Phalaharini Kalika Puja , which takes place in the amavasya(new moon might) of jyestha(april-may) month. this is a time when india is abound with scented flowers and sweetest of fruits like mango . so it is custom to offer all seasonal fruits to Kali at this day . offering of fruits also symbolises the surrender of ego and karmic reactions of a man to the supreme .
The video shows the transformation of Kali to Krishna set in the background of a song on the subject . It was written by a nineteenth century self realized kali sadhak known as Premik Maharaj . The first few lines of the song translates as.
” My mother has become Krishna on seeing the enchanting night of full moon in the season of spring .
My black moon(Kali) has now started the divine play of holi .
ah ! behold the mesmeric beauty on her body , which is now covered with coloured holi powders and blood .
Dakini , Sakini , Yogini , Hakini and all her other companions have become mad with divine love and thus have turned to gopinis (cowherd damsels).
Krishna Gave Darshan in the form of Kali
"(Amar Ujala) Navaratri is also being celebrated at the Kali Krishna temple in Gopinath Bazaar, Vrindavan. Although Vrindavan is generally associated with Krishna worship, there is a lot of Shakti worship going on here as well.
This is why the Kali Pith at this particular temple is considered an important place of worship in Vrindavan. One of the reasons given for this is that Krishna here appeared as Kali to Shrimati Radharani.
Krishna’s two arms became four, his flute became a scimitar, and the flower garland around his neck became a garland of skulls.
Head sevait of the Krishna Kali Pith, Keshavacharyaji, tells the story:
“Once Ayan Ghosh, Radha’s so-called husband, became doubtful that his wife was cheating on him. So one night, when Radha went to meet Krishna, he followed behind to try to catch them redhanded.
“But Krishna was aware of his plan and when Ayan came near, he took the form of Kali so that it appeared that Radha was engaged in secretly worshiping the Goddess in order to benefit her husband and his family. And so, instead of being angry with her, Ayan became respectful at seeing his devout and saintly wife engaged in religious activities on his behalf.”
The Kali Pith is said to be the place where this pastime transpired. Variations on this story can be found in other places, especially the last act of the Vidagdha-madhava."
SYMBOLISM OF DIVERSITIES.
The two schools of Vaishnavism and Shaivism create unity in diversity of thoughts. They appear both as independent and interdependent but hardly repulsive in terms of bhakti. Hindus are used to opposing symbolisms and accommodate a wide variety of beliefs and traditions. While Vaishanavites hold Lord Vishnu and Shivites hold Lord Shiva as Supreme, the compromise generally comes from the consensus of bhakti marriages and the concept if one formless Brahman. This compromise is soothing. Hindus have also never hesitated to find a compromise at the satguna level – God with attributes.
‘Hariharanatha’ is the Lord who is both Hari –Vishnu and Hara-Shiva.
Perhaps this God is the greatest compromise of the great strife between Shivites and Vishnavites. Hariharanath is also Shankaranarayana. Shankara is Siva and Narayana is Vishnu. Hariharanth is revered and worshipped by both Vaishanavites and Shivites. This is the beauty of the bhakti path par excellent.
As in his Ardhanari form, Hariharanath is a half split between Shiva and Vishnu. Shiva’s half has the trisul and Vishnu’s half holds the chakra conch. Shiva retains his matted locks, tiger skin clothes and is ash clad with the serpent on his half. Vishnu wears his crown, jewel adornments and is black or dark blue skinned. Siva’s blessing versus Vishnus’s lotus. Thus Siva’s half is ascetic while Vishnu balances this with his holiness. This symbolism is nothing but the duality of the several roles of Hindu Gods. “Sivasya hridayam vishnur – vishnoscha hridayam svah” – Vishnu is the heart of Siva and likewise Siva is the heart of Vishnu. Thus they are one and the same entity, says Swami Sivananda.
Yogi Ananda Saraswathi
Tri Murti
The two schools of Vaishnavism and Shaivism create unity in diversity of thoughts. They appear both as independent and interdependent but hardly repulsive in terms of bhakti. Hindus are used to opposing symbolisms and accommodate a wide variety of beliefs and traditions. While Vaishanavites hold Lord Vishnu and Shivites hold Lord Shiva as Supreme, the compromise generally comes from the consensus of bhakti marriages and the concept if one formless Brahman. This compromise is soothing. Hindus have also never hesitated to find a compromise at the satguna level – God with attributes.
‘Hariharanatha’ is the Lord who is both Hari –Vishnu and Hara-Shiva.
Perhaps this God is the greatest compromise of the great strife between Shivites and Vishnavites. Hariharanath is also Shankaranarayana. Shankara is Siva and Narayana is Vishnu. Hariharanth is revered and worshipped by both Vaishanavites and Shivites. This is the beauty of the bhakti path par excellent.
As in his Ardhanari form, Hariharanath is a half split between Shiva and Vishnu. Shiva’s half has the trisul and Vishnu’s half holds the chakra conch. Shiva retains his matted locks, tiger skin clothes and is ash clad with the serpent on his half. Vishnu wears his crown, jewel adornments and is black or dark blue skinned. Siva’s blessing versus Vishnus’s lotus. Thus Siva’s half is ascetic while Vishnu balances this with his holiness. This symbolism is nothing but the duality of the several roles of Hindu Gods. “Sivasya hridayam vishnur – vishnoscha hridayam svah” – Vishnu is the heart of Siva and likewise Siva is the heart of Vishnu. Thus they are one and the same entity, says Swami Sivananda.
Yogi Ananda Saraswathi
Tri Murti
Shri Shri Hariharmilana (The meeting of Vishnu and Shiva)
1880s–90s
India
Here the unity of all the gods is being emphasized; we are shown Vishnu and Lakshmi on the left and Shiva with Parvati and Ganesha on the right, while above, Brahma and other gods look down from the clouds. Further emphasizing this comingling of gods is the fact that Shiva’s bull, Nandi, and Vishnu’s elephant merge in a visual double entendre.
The underlying narrative for this work is a moment when Lakshmi gives alms to a beggar she meets who is in fact, Shiva.
Image and text credit:
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Rare Book Society of India
1880s–90s
India
Here the unity of all the gods is being emphasized; we are shown Vishnu and Lakshmi on the left and Shiva with Parvati and Ganesha on the right, while above, Brahma and other gods look down from the clouds. Further emphasizing this comingling of gods is the fact that Shiva’s bull, Nandi, and Vishnu’s elephant merge in a visual double entendre.
The underlying narrative for this work is a moment when Lakshmi gives alms to a beggar she meets who is in fact, Shiva.
Image and text credit:
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Rare Book Society of India
Shiva Drinking the Poison Nandalal Bose, c. 1950
Babu Kishan born KRISHNENDU DAS BAUL close to Tarapith, spent the first part of life at Tarapith, owes his life to Tara Maa, Joy Tara Maa.
Photo back to 'Tarapith 2007' to see beloved Tara Ma.
Joy Tara Maa
Many don't know this but he was on the board of the Tarapith temple for years and years. Been there, done that! His Grandfather Nabani Das Khyapa Baul was blessed and initiated by "Bama Khepa"
Photo back to 'Tarapith 2007' to see beloved Tara Ma.
Joy Tara Maa
Many don't know this but he was on the board of the Tarapith temple for years and years. Been there, done that! His Grandfather Nabani Das Khyapa Baul was blessed and initiated by "Bama Khepa"
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"Brahman and Shakti are identical, like fire and its power to burn. When we talk of fire we automatically mean also its power to burn. Again, the fire's power to burn implies the fire itself. If you accept the one you must accept the other."
Ramakrishna
To the Vaishnava Bauls of Bengal the Body is the Mandir, the soul is enshrined in the Heart of each individual Radha and Krishna live in the alter of the Heart. Today we live in a modern world the Bauls at one time had 22 Baul Ashrams where they wrote their poetry, debated & learned in the Oral Tradition.
The Vaishnava Bauls in particular learned Sanskrit Orally and sang in Bengali to the villagers. Bauls are almost extinct today there are only 2 ashrams in Birbhum W Bengal. Modern life has encroached on the Bauls and as with all Indigenous peoples of the planet times are changing and the Baul's have to survive this new world.
The Vaishnava Bauls are unique in that they worship both Radha & Krishna / Kali & Shiva / Saraswati and Bramha.. They worship Shakti the Female Divine first.. Baul is both Dual and non-Duality. The are wandering minstrels, Bhakti Yogi's and the greatest of yogi's and tantric's based on India Philosophy with the rasa of Buddhism and Sufi..
Bauls are inclusive they accept all. The Ratha Yatra cart was always along side of the Kali Temple in Babukishan's village, nobody ever called any of the Devata demi-gods or disparaged another's belief, in Bengal this is considered Adharma or against the Light to destroy anybody's faith.
The Bauls add the Rasa or juice of Buddhim and Sufi to their wisdom and always accepted all rejected people. Bauls reject fundamentalism, anything that gets in the way of soul connection. The universe is inside, Baul is an inner sadhana the divine is to be found inside.. Bauls are not beginners on the path of Sanatana Dharma they have been around for thousands of years.
The 'Vancouver Kali Temple' is a natural progression of Babukishan living in Vancouver, he is the first and only Baul from Bengal to live in North America and has only been here for a few years.. Babu spent 12 years as a Vedic Monk is the Ramakrishna Order our teachings are also based on the teaching of Ramakrishna Parmahamsa.. Sri Anandamayi Ma.
Babukishan's birth Lineage the Vaishnava Baul Lineage of Brajabala Dasi /Sri Nabani Das Khappa Baul, and other great Bengali Saints... Babukishan has a huge respect and love for Shirdi Sai Baba after spending 30 years in Bombay, he feels everybody is inside Shirdi Sai Baba even his Grandfather Guru Nabani Das Khyeppa Baul.
Grandfather and Guru Nabani Das Khyapa Baul & Brajabala Dasi
The Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity“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
Rabindranath Tagore became a Baul when the legendary Sri Nabani (Gosia) Das Khyappa Baul gave Tagore the name Ravi (Robi) Baul and in return Tagore gave Nabani (Noboni) the name Khyappa Baul and named him 'Mirror of the Sky'. To this very day villagers in Birbhum remember a legendary Tantric Vaishnav Baul Saint Avadhut named Nabani Das Khyappa Baul.
Nabani Das Khyappa Baul and his wife & Monar Manush (soul mate) Brajabala Dasi.
Khyappa means sat chit ananda, highly mystical, fully awake, aware, divine ecstatic love, wild, free bird, blissful, divine consciousness, magical, mysterious, out of body connected to the divine at a very high level, khyappa is not something that can be faked. It is not a name for everybody it was a name designated for a Avadhut, however, today everybody is calling themselves khyappa as many are calling themselves ‘Baul’ and ‘Baul Guru’.
Rabindranath Tagore the great Bengali Noble prize winner for literature and the writer of the Indian, Bangladeshi, and Sri Lankan national anthems, loved Nabani and Nabani is the only Baul who inspired and associated with Tagore.
Nabani Das Khyappa Baul 1954 by British Photographer Richard Lannoy who also extensively photographer Anandamayi Ma.
In 2005, UNESCO Declared the Baul Tradition a "Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity". (note the Bangladeshi official who applied for this designation, took 9 million from the United Nations regarding this project and disappeared. His thesis was based on Muslim Bauls (which do not exist and the premise that Baul was from Persia?
The Mirror of the sky, reflects my soul. O Baul of the road, O Baul of the heart, What keeps you tied, to the corner of the room. By Nabani Das KHYAPPA Baul.
To the untrained eye and ear wandering and singing a song does not make one a Baul. Rabindranath honoured Nabani because he was an ecstatic mystic full of wisdom, he admired his poetry, his tune and his depth in sadhana as a Tantric Yogi and Baul Avadhut. Rabindranath respected Nabani's ancient lineage and its richness, authentic cultural significance and tradition of wisdom, along with the energetic live wire shaktified pure ecstatic love that Nabani embodied.
Tagore appointed Nabani Das Baul as a Professor of Baul music and dance at the Tagore Vishva Bharti University that Tagore created in Shantineketan. Nabani is the first and last Baul to teach at Vishva Bharti University. One of Nabani's students was Indira Gandhi, her father Jawaharlal Nehru had the greatest respect for Nabani. The Indian Independence movement was in full swing. Nehru appointed Nabani a state singer, where Nabani along with Nehru and his contingent travelled all over India, playing for people, sharing the magic of Baul and Nehru's political messages.
Like his grandfather, KD Babukishan also traveled with his parents around India as state singers for Indira Gandhi, with whom Babu's mother was best friends with her until her tragic death. They also were state singers for Rajiv Gandhi until Rajiv's death.
Guru Shishya Parampara Sampradaya Lineage KD Babukishan and his Guru Grandfather Baul Saint Nabani Das Khyappa Baul. Bauls are Tantrics, Indian musicians who know the Tantra of Sound, Mystical Bards, Guru's, Pandits, Acharya's who are simply called Baul.
Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, was wise enough to know what the scholar Sri Chaitanya had figured out 500 years before, that Bauls were able to draw people together through their energetic shakti and ecstatic charismatic chanting, singing and dancing. Dry scholarship and talking doesn't necessarily awaken people to a new movement. Sri Nitanyanda of Ekchakra Birbhum was a Vaishnava Baul and the ancestor of this lineage, he was elder to Sri Chaitanya. It was Nitanyanada who taught his Baul tradtion of kirtan, singing and dancing to Sri Chaitanya.
Sri Chaityana started his Hari Krishna movement based on the ecstatic 'Hari Krishna Hari Ram' singing and dancing of the Vaishnava Baul of Birbhum. The Bauls would start with the Hari Krishna chant early in the mornings as a wakeup call announcing their presence to the villagers of Bengal, inviting them to listen and learn about spiritual life.
Baul is a rare, esctatic, super charged and sweet heart-opening devotional singing and Baul Kirtan is full of ecstatic energy that turns even the hardest of hearts to honey, bringing the rasa of ananda (bliss) alive. They play a one stringed trance inducing instrument called an ‘ektara’ also called the ‘Gopi Chand’ or ‘Gopi Yantra’ which is the Bauls symbol of peace and unity for all. A Baul plays a variety of instruments including a rare one or two stringed instrument called a ‘Gubgubi’ which Nabnai himself named the Ananada Lahari meaning ‘waves of bliss’. Baul is a Guru Shishya Parampara Sampradaya, they are sadhu's and belong to sadhu sangha which are called Akaras. There used to be 22 such sanghas, now there are only 2, they are almost extinct.
There is a lot of misinformation about the Bauls today, misrepresentations abound among a new generation of Baul singers, scholars, writers, documentary film makers, information found on wikipedia, Gurus from other sects including Osho who wrote many books on the Bauls and was deeply inspired by Nabani Das Khyappa Baul. All of them have completely missed the point of who these sweet devotional people are. They repeat the same thing over and over and it is not accurate. Many fakes are changing this beautiful tradition, they dress the part, singing out of tune trying to copy what can not be copied. Baul is only achieved through sadhana. The fake Bauls say they are sadhakas to attract students, some say they are sexual tantrics as sex always sells. This has gone on for a long time. Unaware foreigners attracted by sexual tantra of the west, and Indians attracted by the dream of sexual freedom, flock to Shantineketan. Yet the real Bauls are now almost extinct, and those that still remain, live marginalized in poverty.
Bauls have been described as mad, fakir, dervish, aula, Muslim, afflicted by the wind, illiterate, beggars and folk singers, yet they are none of the above. Bauls were the biggest peacekeepers accepting all people. Understanding the history of Bengal is very important to understanding Baul. When Bengal was in strife under Islamic invasion they accepted Sufi into their fold, learning and adding some Sufi techniques in their practice. When Buddhists flowed into Bengal and were challenged by Brahamins, Bauls were the only people who gave them refuge and accepted them. Baul is a sect onto its own based on Sanatan Dharma with a sprinkle of Sufi and Buddhist practices.
Stories abound about Bauls being from Persia, Uzbeckistan or Bangladesh, but many of these speculations are coming out of Bangladesh which is a Muslim country. They have somehow appropriated Baul culture and use this as a way to raise huge amount of money, apparently in order to preserve Baul Tradition as their ‘National heritage’. Baul tradition was born thousands of years ago and is indigenous to and originates from Birbhum Bengal. There were no Bauls in Bangledesh, even when Bangaldesh was Bengal they were not from the place now called Bangladesh. Baul has always been based on Sanatan Dharma, the eternal dharma of India as found in the Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, Puranic and Vedic wisdom. There were no Bauls in Bangladesh prior to the 1970's because Babu's mother Manju was a well know family in that area before it became Bangladesh.
This is how outsiders to Baul are making a huge mess of what Baul is!
Baul is a tradition of Krishna and Kali kirtan.
Kenduli Birbhum Bengal is the home of the Joy DEV Baul Mela. JOY Dev wrote the Gita Govinda about the love between Radha and Krishna. 1986 Photo by Babukishan of Kenduli at the Joy Dev Mela. The Pous Mela in Shantineketan was created by Rabindranath Tagore in honour of Nabani Das Baul to bring together intellectuals, poets, and creative artists from around the world.
This story comes from the oral tradition of the oldest living Baul lineage as told by Babukishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul, a ‘Lineage Baul Guru’ and the only Baul Guru Scholar from inside the tradition of the Vaishnava Bauls of Birbhum Bengal. Babukishan has lectured all over the world for decades at the University level and has done Baul preformances on some of the biggest stages in the world since the 1970's.
Baul is not only an ocean of devotion but is also, an ocean of Indian Philosophy, Yoga, Tantra, Vedic, Puranic, and Upanishad wisdom. The title 'Baul' implies one is a Guru, Pandit, Acharya, an authority, they were the Shastra before books, they are oral storytellers, spiritual Bards, Bhakti Yogi's, Masters of Nada Yoga, and Vayu Dharma. However, being an oral tradition did not mean they didn't read Bengali and Sanskrit manuscripts and Shastra.
KD Babukishan was born in 1962 in Suri Bhirbhum W Bengal into the lap of Nabani Das Khappa Baul and his wife Brajabala Dasi. KD Babukishan is the birth son of Purna Das Baul and Manju Dasi, however and for whatever reason he was left right after his birth to be raised by Sri Nabani, his Sad Guru and grandfather. Nabani and Brajabala raised their little grandson who was born premature with crooked limbs, it was thought he would die the next day. They named him Krishnendu (Krishna in Bengali). The name Babukishan was given to him by Mahesh Bhatt a Hindi film Director and Suraj Sanim one of the biggest Hindi film writers.
Nabani was an adept Sadhaka at Tarapith he took his sick tiny premature grandson with crooked limbs to Tara Maa right after he was born praying and begging for his life; Ayurvedic medicine, prayers and mantra were used to heal baby Krishnendu and his limbs were straightened through daily Ayurvedic massage given by Nabani and Brajabala Dasi. It should be noted that Nabani was a healer and he had healed thousands of people eveywhere he went, taking their karma and transmuting it.
Nabani knew the Tantra of alchemy and traditional herbs, he was a close friend of the famed Ayurvedic doctor and healer Dr. Kali Goti who also helped with healing Babu. Nabani was an adept at manifesting siddhi's, he knew all the Guru's, Saints, Siddhas, Yogis, Naths, Swamis, Sadhus, Sadhakas of the time and had them all give dharshan and blessings to his little baby Krishnendu. Babu went everywhere with Nabani and was a regular at Tarapith learning tantric and Baul sadhana. hanging out with the Gurus and Tantrics one could say he owes his life to Tara Maa and Kali Maa. The village Rakha Kali Maa temple where he played, was right beside the Ratha Yatra Cart with Radha and Krishna. The village favoured many gods. Babu saw and experienced a world that does not exist today, those times are gone. I specualate that perhaps this was Babu's karma and a continuation of his past life.
Nabani's samadhi was in 1969, when KD Babukishan was only 8 years old. He thought Nabani was his father, until he learned his real father was Nabani's eldest son Purna Das Baul who had since had two other sons that were raised outside Baul tradition, in contemporary Calcutta. Most people on a path would agree that our family is not who we are. Guru is our real family if we are lucky to have one, Babu was lucky to have Nabani who left him his spark. Losing Nabani was to be the greatest loss of little KD Babukishan's life and the greatest loss to the whole Baul community. Nabani was not an ordinary Baul he was an extraordinary genius.
Babukishan was by his side when he went into samadhi. On his grandfather’s passing, KD Babukishan recalls: “suddenly he reached out and gave me his hand at the same time a huge thunder cracked as his whole body turned a blue whitish and an electric current shocked me and ran through my body at the same time automatically the tulsi plant fell over and the Bhagavad Gita hit Boro Baba on his head, he was gone. He held my hand so tight I felt an electric current run through my body my third eye opened, I saw the universe my Boro Baba had given me what is called a Bramhma dharshan. I felt a huge force of power and light in my body, I couldn't break free of Boro Baba's grip.”
The Joy Dev Baul Mela is held here the Vaishnava Bauls attend ever year to do puja to the great poet (kavi) Joy Dev. The bridge going across the Ajoy river is named Nabani Setu after Nabani Das Baul. The mela is completely different today, the Bauls have been marginalized and pushed out by the new kirtan singers. The Bauls honour Joy Deva and the love he had for his soul mate Padmavati because Bauls believe in Soul Mates as Radha and Krishna live and dance in their hearts, this is the real Rasa Lila dance. The temple wall is made from soil that has been burnt hundred of years ago. The Joy Dev Baul festival takes place every year on Markar Sanskranti when the Sun moves into Capricorn.
The Baul kirtan for Nabani went on for weeks, they chanted HARI KRISHNA HARI RAM for 8 days in a continuous flow, and then 6 more weeks taking breaks for some food and rest. Thousands of people came to pay their respects. Nabani was a famous father figure, Baul Guru of Birbhum, a state artist and the whole state of Birbhum was closed. He was burried in traditional Baul way, sitting in a padmasana.
Some time after his grandfather’s death, his Grandmother sent him to live in Calcutta with Purna Das Baul and Manju Dasi, his birth parents, as she felt he’d be better off there and that he needed to be educated. KD Babukishan's went from the highest energy and biggest love bliss to a material life in Calcutta and a family where he didn't fit in. He recalls how his mother Manju used to bribe him with cookies to call her Maa.
Those days were hard for a little boy, suddenly surrounded by strangers, in the strange city, and before long, they packed him off to Ramakrishna Mission, where he remained for the following twelve years. Living there was tough, but the Swami’s there respected the Bauls, and often told him the story how Ramakrishna loved the Bauls, and said many times how he wanted to be born a Baul in his next life.
The family sometimes let him stay with them and even travel with them, touring with his father. When he was nine, they went to London and Europe on his first of many overseas trips. They went to perform at the fundraiser for Bangladesh in 1971, 1972, and 1978. There was a big group of Indian musicians who played at Hyde Park at the concert sponsored by the Beatles and The Rolling Stones. That is where he first met and became lifelong friends with George Harrison and the Rolling Stones. Later in 1986, George Harrison along with Ravi Shankar helped him publish his 3rd book on Bauls, now out of print. During that trip they traveled to Mick Jaggers place in Nice, France and where his father recorded with them for the album Jai Bangla. Mick Jagger was their limousine driver, and drove them from the airport to his place, and in 2004 he returned the favour when The Rolling Stones performed in Mumbai.
Just as he was in the process of becoming a sanaysin, his father pulled him out of Ramakrishna Mission to work as his tour manager.
The easiest way to pronounce Baul is (Ba–oo-l). Bauls are known as 'wind catchers' , the Masters of Pranayama which they call Vayu Dharma. Baul comes from the words Vayu (air) and T'ula (to raise the vital air). Ba stands for Va in Bengali language. Bauls practice various yogic tantric techniques and their singing and mantric chanting. The aim of the Baul is God Realization & Self Realization in the human body, humanity is first and foremost to the Bauls – to be a good human, to realize God within this body temple.
Bauls are considered to be Sahaja which means natural and spontaneous. It implies natural on the spiritual level and on the mystical level of the miraculous. It means that easy natural state of living without planning, design, contriving, seeking, wanting, or striving for attention.
Bauls practice techniques similar to Daoist Qigong they are Masters of energy work and mysticism.
Legendary BAULS
Purna Das Baul is the first famous Indian Vocalist to come to America. First arriving in 1967 on a tour from San Francisco to New York staying in Woodstock NY at Bob Dylan's home as guests of Sally and Albert B Grossman (Bob Dylans manager). The recorded music from that time is called 'Bauls at Big Pink'. Purna Das Baul and his brother the late Laxshman Das Baul who was a much loved Baul a Bob Marley of the Bauls appeared on the cover of Bob Dylan's Legendary album John Westly Harding, Bob Dylan was a super fan of Lakshman Das Baul. Sally Grossman has remained a loyal a very dear friend of the Bauls and Laxshman Das Baul since 1967.
At 81 years of age Lashman Das Baul passed away in April 2015 ending a legendary period of Baul history.
The Bauls at Big Pink produced by Al Aronowitz the father of Rock Journalism and another beloved friend of Babu's who passed in 2004, Garth Hudson and Robbie Robertson of the Band 1967.
Baul Samarat (King of the Bauls) Purna Das Baul at 87 years old has received the highest awards as a vocalist in India including many President Awards, Padma Shri and a rare award from the JAGANATHA TEMPLE called 'Nada Brahma Award' which only 3 have received including the much celebrated Ravindra Jain and Lata Mangeshakar. This family of Vaishnava Bauls are celebrated at the Jaganatha Temple in Orissa they know they are ancestors of Nityananda, Jai Nitai.
Allen Ginsberg's had always honoured Nabani Das Baul as his Guru who he first met him in the early 1962 while traveling in Birbhum Bengal. Ginsberg became a very dear friend of KD Babu Kishan whom Babu visited every year in America from the 1980's until Ginsberg passed in 1997.
Nabani, Ginsberg and Babu Kishan are poets and Nabani Das Kypapa Baul is both Babu Kishan and Ginsbergs Baul Guru. Ginsberg is the one who insisted to Sally and Albert B Grossman (Bob Dylan's manager) to bring Nabani to America, however, in 1967 Nabani's health was failing and he sent his two son's Lakshman and Purna Das Baul.
Kshiti Mohan Sen was a well-known scholar of ancient and medieval India and close associate of Rabindranath Tagore served as the Vice Chancellor of Visva-Bharati University in Santineketan for years. Kshiti Mohan Shastri described Nabani Das Baul "the last real true Baul" he wrote a book on Baul and regarded Nabani as the greatest ocean of intelligence he was as a huge admirer of Nabani. Kshiti Mohan Sastri is the Grandfather of Armarta Sen a Professor, Economist and Philosopher living in New York.
KD Babukishan walks between worlds in a true tantric form with one foot in the spiritual world and one foot firmly on earth, in the world but not of the world. He is a highly awarded Bollywood Indian Cinema Music Composer, Indian Music Producer, a Master of Indian Music, Classical, Folk, Bhajan, and Kirtan composing scores for 150 films, Film Designer, Film Maker, he has recorded and worked with the who is who of Indian music and Western music.
KD Babukisha was raised a Baul and spent 12 years as a Ramakrishna monk in Calcutta, BA in Indian Philosophy, MA of Indian Music from Calcutta University. Poet, the first Baul to be educated in the oral tradition and outside. A Sanskrit Scholar from the Oral Tradition, Sanskrit Education at the Masters level and because of his love of Sanskrit he spent countless years learning from Dr. Roma Chowdhri who was like a mother to Babu she was a legendary world renowned Bengali Sanskrit scholar who dedicated her whole life to Sanskrit.
Baukishan now lives in Vancouver Canada with me Trishula his Monar Manush wife and partner of almost 15 years, traveling back and forth to India. Babu's life changed dramatically when he was in the 2004 Tsunami in Indonesia where he witnessed, tens of thousands of souls leaving Bhumi Maa all at once, one of Maa's biggest burning grounds.
He has lived through the 1971 war between Bengal and Bangladesh, he has lived through many many terrorist attacks in Mumbai and lived many lifetimes in this one lifetime. Babu's main cause has always been to preserve his Baul tradition and it has been proven a difficult task it seems that over many decades his dream, all of his time and energy have been thwarted by his Calcutta family and many other road blocks, but he never gives up.
"The way my braid is, that’s how it will stay.
I’ll get into the water, I’ll splash water around, but I won’t get my hair wet.
I’ll swim about this way, and that way.
I’ll dive into the water, and won’t listen to what people say.
I’ll enjoy myself but not suffer because of it.
Gosain Rasaraj says: “Listen, my friend , that beauty leaves me speechless".
I won’t be chaste; I won’t be unchaste.
I won’t leave my Lord".
Do not take this song literally, it is a metaphor to not being attached.
Famous Baul song (poetry) by Rasaraj Gosai (Nabani Das Baul's elder brother)
In bhakti yoga, one considers God as Supreme and not as an intangible Absolute.
A jnana yogi, on the other hand strives to transcend all the subject-object relationship.
‘When I think of the Supreme Being as inactive - neither creating or preserving nor destroying, I call him Brahman, the impersonal God.
When I think of Him as active-creating or preserving and destroying, I call him Shakti or Maya or Prakriti, the Personal God.
But the distinction between them does not mean a difference.
The personal and impersonal are the same thing, like milk and its whiteness.
It is impossible to conceive of the one without the other.
The Divine Mother and Brahman are one’
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.
A jnana yogi, on the other hand strives to transcend all the subject-object relationship.
‘When I think of the Supreme Being as inactive - neither creating or preserving nor destroying, I call him Brahman, the impersonal God.
When I think of Him as active-creating or preserving and destroying, I call him Shakti or Maya or Prakriti, the Personal God.
But the distinction between them does not mean a difference.
The personal and impersonal are the same thing, like milk and its whiteness.
It is impossible to conceive of the one without the other.
The Divine Mother and Brahman are one’
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.
This is a good descriptive Picture of the Vancouver Jai Maa Kali Mandir.. although we include Radha and Krishna as they are the foundation of Babukishan's Vaishnava Baul lineage Jai Nitai..
The Gaudiya Vaishnavism is an extrapolation of this Lineage of Vaishnava Baul which is an oral Liviing Lineage was around thousands of years before Gaudiya Vaishnavism and the Great Avadhuta Sri Nityananada of Ekkchakra Birbhum W Bengal is an ancestor of Babu kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul. This one and only Baul Lineage is from Ekkchakra Birbhum Bengal India.
This is the only Lineage of Baul. No one in this world would know what Baul is without this Lineage. Now many are making up Lineages and is disrespectful and a disgrace to take the songs from this lineage and put other poets names on, to take and use the ground that this lineage has laid and make up stories of new lineages that never existed.
They are the Gosai Das Baul Lineage
The Gaudiya Vaishnavism is an extrapolation of this Lineage of Vaishnava Baul which is an oral Liviing Lineage was around thousands of years before Gaudiya Vaishnavism and the Great Avadhuta Sri Nityananada of Ekkchakra Birbhum W Bengal is an ancestor of Babu kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul. This one and only Baul Lineage is from Ekkchakra Birbhum Bengal India.
This is the only Lineage of Baul. No one in this world would know what Baul is without this Lineage. Now many are making up Lineages and is disrespectful and a disgrace to take the songs from this lineage and put other poets names on, to take and use the ground that this lineage has laid and make up stories of new lineages that never existed.
They are the Gosai Das Baul Lineage
In Sanata Dharma (Hinduism) there is a story of how Krishna assumed the form of Kali Ma as a Lila or Divine play .
Krishna Gave Darshan in the form of Kali
(Amar Ujala) Navaratri is also being celebrated at the Kali Krishna temple in Gopinath Bazaar, Vrindavan. Although Vrindavan is generally associated with Krishna worship, there is a lot of Shakti worship going on here as well.
This is why the Kali Pith at this particular temple is considered an important place of worship in Vrindavan. One of the reasons given for this is that Krishna here appeared in this form to Shrimati Radharani.
Krishna’s two arms became four, his flute became a scimitar, and the flower garland around his neck became a garland of skulls.
Head sevait of the Krishna Kali Pith, Keshavacharyaji, tells the story: “Once Ayan Ghosh, Radha’s so-called husband, became doubtful that his wife was cheating on him. So one night, when Radha went to meet Krishna, he followed behind to try to catch them redhanded.
“But Krishna was aware of his plan and when Ayan came near, he took the form of Kali so that it appeared that Radha was engaged in secretly worshiping the Goddess in order to benefit her husband and his family. And so, instead of being angry with her, Ayan became respectful at seeing his devout and saintly wife engaged in religious activities on his behalf.”
The Kali Pith is said to be the place where this pastime transpired. Variations on this story can be found in other places, especially the last act of the Vidagdha-madhava.
Krishna Gave Darshan in the form of Kali
(Amar Ujala) Navaratri is also being celebrated at the Kali Krishna temple in Gopinath Bazaar, Vrindavan. Although Vrindavan is generally associated with Krishna worship, there is a lot of Shakti worship going on here as well.
This is why the Kali Pith at this particular temple is considered an important place of worship in Vrindavan. One of the reasons given for this is that Krishna here appeared in this form to Shrimati Radharani.
Krishna’s two arms became four, his flute became a scimitar, and the flower garland around his neck became a garland of skulls.
Head sevait of the Krishna Kali Pith, Keshavacharyaji, tells the story: “Once Ayan Ghosh, Radha’s so-called husband, became doubtful that his wife was cheating on him. So one night, when Radha went to meet Krishna, he followed behind to try to catch them redhanded.
“But Krishna was aware of his plan and when Ayan came near, he took the form of Kali so that it appeared that Radha was engaged in secretly worshiping the Goddess in order to benefit her husband and his family. And so, instead of being angry with her, Ayan became respectful at seeing his devout and saintly wife engaged in religious activities on his behalf.”
The Kali Pith is said to be the place where this pastime transpired. Variations on this story can be found in other places, especially the last act of the Vidagdha-madhava.
RAAI RAJA / NOT Radha Rani
Raai means Radha and Raja means king
This is one of the leelas of Krishna that is specially popular in TRADITIONAL Gaudiya Dharma (of which there is a huge difference between the New Age Vaishnavism that came from Bengal to the West.
Extensive research must be done in this area and the oral traditions need to be part of this research not just the new age side with their printing presses creating propaganda and separation through their name calling and APA Sampradaya. Real Vaishnava never ever put others down, they accepted all, respected all, loved all and served all without a though of collecting anything in return including devotee's or money for printing presses and temples.
Real Authentic Traditional Gaudiya or Bengali Vaishnava's never put down or call names, they are sweet people..
Here Radhika is worshipped as a king or monarch by her maids and Krishna is brought into her durbar, this picture commemorates that Leelain Shantipur , descendants of Advaita Acharya still live and they have many ancient Gaudiya Temples .
On raasa purnima the deities are publicly brought out in majestic processions, and in these processions little Girls are dressed as Radha and made to sit on throne like a king, as the floats wander down the streets, devotees and commoners Bow to her as a living Radha.
Raai Rajarai Raja Leela is one of the many Leelas popular in TRADITIONA GAUDIYA VAISHNAVISM but not specially cultivated in THE NEW AGE Vaishnavism
Notable other leelas like this are NAVI NARI KUJAR , Kalahantarahita , Kalanka mochana etc..
As far as i can remember Krishna was brought in presence of Radha who pretended to be the king of Vraja and her Sakhis acted as the ministers. Krishna himself was in guise of a woman Ii have forgotten the details.
Nava Nari Kunjar is the leela where nine Gopis form themselves into the shape of an elephant by twisting their bodies into acrobatics to carry Radha and Krishna .
Kalanka Mochana is where Radharani feels sad to hear her neighbors say ill words about her chastity, she appeals to Krishna to prove her chastity to the villagers . Krishna devises a clever plan and ascertains that Radha is the highest sati (chaste girl) in the whole or Vraja Kalahantarahita is Leela based on feeling of separation and love all these , and many others constituted the bed rock of Gaudiya Dharma .
Raai means Radha and Raja means king
This is one of the leelas of Krishna that is specially popular in TRADITIONAL Gaudiya Dharma (of which there is a huge difference between the New Age Vaishnavism that came from Bengal to the West.
Extensive research must be done in this area and the oral traditions need to be part of this research not just the new age side with their printing presses creating propaganda and separation through their name calling and APA Sampradaya. Real Vaishnava never ever put others down, they accepted all, respected all, loved all and served all without a though of collecting anything in return including devotee's or money for printing presses and temples.
Real Authentic Traditional Gaudiya or Bengali Vaishnava's never put down or call names, they are sweet people..
Here Radhika is worshipped as a king or monarch by her maids and Krishna is brought into her durbar, this picture commemorates that Leelain Shantipur , descendants of Advaita Acharya still live and they have many ancient Gaudiya Temples .
On raasa purnima the deities are publicly brought out in majestic processions, and in these processions little Girls are dressed as Radha and made to sit on throne like a king, as the floats wander down the streets, devotees and commoners Bow to her as a living Radha.
Raai Rajarai Raja Leela is one of the many Leelas popular in TRADITIONA GAUDIYA VAISHNAVISM but not specially cultivated in THE NEW AGE Vaishnavism
Notable other leelas like this are NAVI NARI KUJAR , Kalahantarahita , Kalanka mochana etc..
As far as i can remember Krishna was brought in presence of Radha who pretended to be the king of Vraja and her Sakhis acted as the ministers. Krishna himself was in guise of a woman Ii have forgotten the details.
Nava Nari Kunjar is the leela where nine Gopis form themselves into the shape of an elephant by twisting their bodies into acrobatics to carry Radha and Krishna .
Kalanka Mochana is where Radharani feels sad to hear her neighbors say ill words about her chastity, she appeals to Krishna to prove her chastity to the villagers . Krishna devises a clever plan and ascertains that Radha is the highest sati (chaste girl) in the whole or Vraja Kalahantarahita is Leela based on feeling of separation and love all these , and many others constituted the bed rock of Gaudiya Dharma .
Jiva Goswami in his commentary of the Brahma Samhita writes:
Krsna is Durga. Durga is Krsna. One who sees that they are different will not become liberated from the cycle of repeated birth and death.”
Durga is the personal potency of Lord Krsna, and therefore she is Lord Krsna Himself. For this reason Durga should not be considered manifested from a portion of the Lord’s illusory potency Maya. This fact is confirmed by the following statement of the Nirukti: “Even if one continually worships her, Durga is still difficult to understand.”
Durga is also described in Narada-pancaratra, in the following conversation of Sruti and Vidya:
“Durga is the supreme goddess. She is an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. She is the transcendental potency of the Lord. She is manifested from the form of Lord Maha-Visnu.”
…Simply by understanding her one immediately attains the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is not otherwise.
She is identical with Gokula’s queen Sri Radha, who possesses a great treasure of love for Krishna. Because She is understood only with great difficulty, the saintly devotees call her Durga (difficult to understand). She is the personal potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and she is always filled with the nectar of love for Him.
From her is manifested the maha-maya potency, the controller of all conditioned souls, who covers them with illusion. By this maha-maya potency the residents of the entire world are bewildered into thinking themselves identical with their external material bodies. (Translation: Kushakrata Das)
This prayer in Bengali may offer a glimpse of a somewhat intricate subject:
kuladevi yogamaya more krpa kori
abarana sambaribe kabe visvodari
“O Yogamaya! You who have been worshiped in my family for generations! When will you show mercy to me by lifting up the curtain of illusion with which you shroud the universe in your external form of Mahamaya?”
The Pancharatra informs: In all mantras used to worship Krishna, the presiding deity is known as Durga. She is also the personification of suddha sattva- pure transcendental existence and synonymous with yoganidra – the trance – sleep of Vishnu (SB 10.4.29)
MOTHER OF THE UNIVERSE
Mother is not far from you.
She ever resides in the innermost recess of your heart.
Mother is the eye of your eyes, the ear of your ears, the word of your words and the life of your life.Mother envelops this entire universe and exists inside and outside
every animate and inanimate object.
In Her Nirguna state, She is your father; in Her Saguna state, She is your Mother.
You are the darling of that Mother; then why are you crying? Just imagine that you are sitting on the lap of your Mother; and She is holding you tightly with Her ten Arms.
You are all the time looking in front of you; that is why you get frightened and cry aloud at the sight of sorrow and disease, poverty and want, which float like terrible sharks in this ocean of life.
Do look back but once; see on whose lap you are sitting; who is holding you in her arms.
You turn outgoing senses inwards and see how Mother is protecting you all the time. Wipe away your tears, wipe them away. Say only Durga, Durga, Durga.
Whoever has taken firm refuge in Mother, he has gained complete and eternal peace.
Think of Ramprasad, Kamlakanta, Vamakshepa, Ramakrishna Paramhans – they had all gained Her Darshan.
Even in this age, Mother does come. She appears before one if he calls for Her with real Bhakti and humility.
Even if you have no faith, yet call Mother. If you call Her, your faith will gradually grow. Even if you cannot call Her with earnestness, yet you say Durga, Durga, Durga. Your earnestness will grow.
All your doubts will disappear.
Say constantly – Durga, Durga, Durga.
Shiva has said “That person is Mukta (free) who thinks with Bhakti of Durga, the destroyer of all sorrows and poverty.
He who does Japa of Durga Naam, who does Dhyan of Durga is Mukta, there is no doubt about it.” If you go on repeating the name, Durga, Durga, the lotus in your heart will blossom.
If that lotus you will see Mother in all her effulgence. Your do not have to look here and there; you do not have to think of the means. Mother has already taken the entire responsibility for your well-being and She is constantly protecting you.
If you go on doing Japa of Durga, Durga, you will realize that you are not without shelter in this world. There is Mother always next to you.
Go on constantly repeating, Durga, Durga, Durga.
There is no Puja comparable to Durga Puja.
There is no result comparable to gaining Durga.
There is no Jnana (knowledge) comparable to the knowledge of Durga.
If you do constant Japa saying Durga, Durga, then the ignorance that “I am this body” will be automatically destroyed.
As you go on doing this Japa, your heart will be filled with light, vibrations and Ananda. You will then realize by yourself that “I am not this body, I am Atma” and you will be able to see within yourself the effulgent Omkar Atma in form of Nada.
You go on repeating Durga, Durga, Durga.
There is no Tapasya in this world, done either by word, deed and mind, or even fasting etc., which is comparable to the Tapasya of doing Japa of Durga Naam.
The aim of all Tapasya is to attain Mother, who is ever full of Ananda and in form of Omkar. If one does Japa of Durga, Durga, She illumines the lotus of that person’s heart and appears before him.
So do not be worried. Go on doing Japa of Durga, Durga, Durga. Go on saying Durga, Durga, Durga.
- Sri Sitaramdas Omkarnath
Mother is not far from you.
She ever resides in the innermost recess of your heart.
Mother is the eye of your eyes, the ear of your ears, the word of your words and the life of your life.Mother envelops this entire universe and exists inside and outside
every animate and inanimate object.
In Her Nirguna state, She is your father; in Her Saguna state, She is your Mother.
You are the darling of that Mother; then why are you crying? Just imagine that you are sitting on the lap of your Mother; and She is holding you tightly with Her ten Arms.
You are all the time looking in front of you; that is why you get frightened and cry aloud at the sight of sorrow and disease, poverty and want, which float like terrible sharks in this ocean of life.
Do look back but once; see on whose lap you are sitting; who is holding you in her arms.
You turn outgoing senses inwards and see how Mother is protecting you all the time. Wipe away your tears, wipe them away. Say only Durga, Durga, Durga.
Whoever has taken firm refuge in Mother, he has gained complete and eternal peace.
Think of Ramprasad, Kamlakanta, Vamakshepa, Ramakrishna Paramhans – they had all gained Her Darshan.
Even in this age, Mother does come. She appears before one if he calls for Her with real Bhakti and humility.
Even if you have no faith, yet call Mother. If you call Her, your faith will gradually grow. Even if you cannot call Her with earnestness, yet you say Durga, Durga, Durga. Your earnestness will grow.
All your doubts will disappear.
Say constantly – Durga, Durga, Durga.
Shiva has said “That person is Mukta (free) who thinks with Bhakti of Durga, the destroyer of all sorrows and poverty.
He who does Japa of Durga Naam, who does Dhyan of Durga is Mukta, there is no doubt about it.” If you go on repeating the name, Durga, Durga, the lotus in your heart will blossom.
If that lotus you will see Mother in all her effulgence. Your do not have to look here and there; you do not have to think of the means. Mother has already taken the entire responsibility for your well-being and She is constantly protecting you.
If you go on doing Japa of Durga, Durga, you will realize that you are not without shelter in this world. There is Mother always next to you.
Go on constantly repeating, Durga, Durga, Durga.
There is no Puja comparable to Durga Puja.
There is no result comparable to gaining Durga.
There is no Jnana (knowledge) comparable to the knowledge of Durga.
If you do constant Japa saying Durga, Durga, then the ignorance that “I am this body” will be automatically destroyed.
As you go on doing this Japa, your heart will be filled with light, vibrations and Ananda. You will then realize by yourself that “I am not this body, I am Atma” and you will be able to see within yourself the effulgent Omkar Atma in form of Nada.
You go on repeating Durga, Durga, Durga.
There is no Tapasya in this world, done either by word, deed and mind, or even fasting etc., which is comparable to the Tapasya of doing Japa of Durga Naam.
The aim of all Tapasya is to attain Mother, who is ever full of Ananda and in form of Omkar. If one does Japa of Durga, Durga, She illumines the lotus of that person’s heart and appears before him.
So do not be worried. Go on doing Japa of Durga, Durga, Durga. Go on saying Durga, Durga, Durga.
- Sri Sitaramdas Omkarnath
Rare old photo of Shirdi Sai Baba
Jayadeva Temple in Kenduli Bengali, where the Bauls to this day still honor the great Poets of the Gita Govinda Jayadeva, at the Joy Dev festival on the Ajoy River.
