বাংলা 
English 
Khadem Nizam Uddin of Lalon Academy is now over sixty-one years old. If you ask him about Lalon, he says he heard from his grandfather Bholai Shah that Lalon would drink milk at night and eat no other food. Almost the whole night he spent in worship and austerity, and only after quite a while he would take water.
At that time the Akhra grounds had lime plantations and much shrub and jungle. Devotees used to bring lime from Gaya in India for Fakir Lalon, and with that lime he drank his water. On this subject he further says that some Lalon devotees still come to the Akhra from Nabadwip; he has heard from them that at Nabadwip, at the dham of Gauranga Mahaprabhu, where a service of lime was once offered to Lalon and his disciples, the seat that Lalon spread out for that lime service is still preserved.
In Nizamuddin's view, since Lalon was perhaps born on the tithi of Dol Purnima, during his lifetime he would spend whole nights in the open field with his disciples, singing and playing music on the night of Dol Purnima in the month of Falgun. Continuing that tradition, every year on the night of Dol Purnima in the month of Falgun, Lalon Academy organises a three-day Lalon commemoration festival.
Besides the Lalon courtyard, in the inner part of the Akhra and everywhere else, thousands of Bauls who come from the remotest corners of the country sing all night in small groups. Moreover, every year on the first of Kartik, on the occasion of Lalon's Tirodhan Dibas (anniversary of passing), a similar festival is held. Thousands of Bauls from home and abroad join that festival; in the moonlight of Dol Purnima the Bauls raise their hands to the sky and sing —
Allah, Lord of all, O King Allah, giver of sustenance, You are all.
You can drown and float, and give the shore to whomever You float;
Your hand gives or takes away — that is why I call upon You.
Lalon and Rabindranath Tagore enjoyed considerable intimacy and an exchange of spiritual feeling. Driven by the duties of the zamindari, Rabindranath used to stay at the Kuthi Bari of Shilaidaha, composing poetry in the solitude of the Padma's banks. When he first came to know Fakir Lalon he was young. He once visited Lalon's Akhra; Lalon's songs, woven in language deep yet simple, captivated him, and from then on flowed an exchange of feeling between them. Wherever Rabindranath had to go he used a palanquin; Fakir Lalon rode a horse.
Fakir Lalon visited the Kuthi Bari on horseback once or twice. Rabindranath often went boating on the Padma with his barge. Rabindranath's nephew Jyotirindranath Tagore, while travelling on that barge, made a sketch of Fakir Lalon sitting in it; a copy of it is still preserved in the museum of Lalon Academy.
