Purna chandra das baul biography of albert
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I have been reading a book by Suryakant Goswami, a sevadhikari at the Bankey Bihari temple, called Nikunj ka rahi, or “Pilgrim to the Secret Grove.” The story is about Bhagavat Rasik Dev, an early 19th century saint of the Haridasi or Sakhi sampradaya. The story is itself of great interest, and the telling is done in good, literary Hindi.
Goswami’s descriptions of Vrindavan as it was in the first half of the 19th century fills a reader like myself with nostalgia, though some of the things that he describes — large homes for absentee rich people, for instance — show that certain trends are eternal, only being exacerbated by India’s current economic boom.
Bhagavat Rasik Dev was a grand disciple of Lalita Kishori Das, the founder of the Tattiya Sthan. On one of his first days in Vrindavan, after bathing in the Yamuna, he had a vision of Swami Haridas with the Divine Couple sitting in his lap, like in the picture above.
But when he came to stay permanently in Vrindavan and took vesh from his guru, Lalita Mohini Das, from his desire to do bhajan, he made a decision not to stay there, but to move to Radha Bawri in Rajpur, which in those times was very isolated. His desire to meditate on the Nitya Vihar in seclusion was too strong for him, and h
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Kolkata. 4 September 2019. Purnadas on Nabani Das Baul
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On 29 October 2018, I was at the British Library sitting at the desk of Lead Curator of World and Traditional Music, Dr Janet Topp-Fargion, looking at some papers relating to Arnold Bake, the Dutch scholar of Sanskrit and Indian music, pioneer field recordist in the Indian Subcontinent in the 1930s and 40s, for my ongoing research on his wax cylinders from Bengal. They gave me a few files with miscellaneous papers and after I finished going through what I had gone to study, namely the typed up sheets of the first catalogue notes for the cylinders, I continued to browse through the other papers, for they looked interesting enough to me. I was allowed to take photos of the papers with my phone and occasionally I found something to bring back with me. Then, I found a few typed sheets stuck together with a pin, with the heading: ‘Overseas Research Leave, Report by Dr A. A. Bake, Reader in Sanskrit. India and Nepal– May 1955 to August 1956.’ This was Arnold Bake’s last trip to India (and Nepal). I was curious, as I knew of two recordings of Tagore songs that he had made in this time, one of Indira Devi Chaudhurani in Santiniketan and another of the Tagore singer Chitralekha Chow
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Mystic Rites get to Permanent Giant Conflict: picture Bāuls attack Bengal, Mutinous Ideology increase in intensity Post-Capitalism
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