Fakir lalon shai
Fakir Lalon Shai (1774 – 17 October 1890) — also known as Lalon Sai, Lalon Shah or Mahatma Lalon — was a Bengali of many talents: a spiritual Baul sadhak, humanist, social reformer and philosopher. He was the lyricist, composer and singer of countless songs, celebrated as a pioneer of Baul music and as the "Baul Emperor". Through his songs Baul music became widely popular in the nineteenth century, and his humanist vision — placing humanity above every division of religion, caste and creed — still guides the mystic tradition of Kushtia.
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Lalon Sai, Rising Beyond the Confines of All Religions, Has Always Called People to Walk the Path of Truth and the Humanist Way.
Khulna Divisional Commissioner Lokman Hossain Mia has said that the deep knowledge in the created songs of Baul Emperor Fakir Lalon Sai has truly enchanted him. In the view of some, though illiterate he is an undiscovered world of the treasury of knowledge. Many countries have presented him in many ways. As a spiritually accomplished man he appeared to build a society of truth without caste. Lalon Sai is a world human being. Lalon Sai was the proverb-father of the Bengali sense of nationhood.
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Humayun Kabir (born 3 May 1958; died 26 March 2017) — Humayun Kabir, alias Fakir Humayun Sadhu, was born in Uttar Mirzanagar Khanabari village under Raipura thana of Narsingdi district. At his birthplace he founded an Akhra Bari in his own name. There, with the devotees of Lalon, the sadhu-sangha gatherings were held. He was called the master of blowing the singa; he would blow it continuously for 8 minutes (some say 25 minutes!).
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Among the rural creative sages of Bangladesh and West Bengal in India, the Baul community is extremely renowned. This community practises body-centred sadhana, and it is through song that they express and spread the tale of that sadhana. The depth of feeling in the Bauls' songs, the sweetness of their melodies and the universal human appeal of their words call the whole world to the mantra of the great union.
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Various facts about the nature of the Baul have been stated in Baul songs. At this stage the explanation of the Baul creed is presented by taking refuge in the sayings of the songs composed by Baul sages. For instance, from the saying of one Baul song we find —
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The regional boundary of the bauls of Bengal is Bangladesh's Kushtia, Chuadanga, Meherpur, Jhenaidah, Magura, Faridpur, Jessore, Khulna, Natore, Sirajganj, Barishal, Sylhet, Sunamganj, Moulvibazar, Mymensingh, Netrakona, Tangail, Jamalpur, Dhaka, Manikganj, Brahmanbaria, Chittagong and other districts, and in India's West Bengal, Birbhum, Bankura, Nadia, Murshidabad, the 24 Parganas and others.
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In the Bengali year 1287, corresponding to 1880 AD, on the Dol Purnima of Falgun, at Fakir Lalon Shai's akhra at Cheuria, his disciples, devotees and the sadhu-guru fakir darveshes gathered for the annual sadhu-service and commemoration festival. When the event ended, some disciples and devotees stayed behind. The next day they met Fakir Lalon Shai and told him the wish of their hearts — "Shaiji, we want to go on pilgrimage with you." Hearing this proposal he told the disciple devotees, "I shall try to fulfil the wish of your hearts."
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"Close to home is Arshinagar, and there my neighbour dwells" - on this slogan, the three-day observance of the 129th Tirodhan (death anniversary) of Baul Samrat, the mystic sage Fakir Lalon Shahiji, and the Lalon rural fair began on Wednesday. On this occasion, the courtyard of Shaheeji's Baramkhana Akhra at Cheuria in Kushtia is teeming with human gems.
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One hundred and twenty-nine years on from those days, some dishonest persons, without knowing the mystic sage Baba Lalon Shaiji's true philosophy, guidance, teachings, dress and manners, are now busy giving wrong and made-up interpretations! Many, without embracing Lalon Shaiji's true ideals, have not only published made-up interpretations but have also confined themselves to adopting the dress. So said a Lalon lover from Hooghly in India, more than ninety years of age.
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Mahbubul Alam Hanif, member of the National Parliament and joint general secretary of the Bangladesh Awami League, has said that above everything are human beings and humanity. Caste and creed have no worth; worth belongs only to humanity. So before all else, giving up strife among ourselves, we must rise above communalism and devote ourselves to the good of the people.
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At Cheuria in Kushtia, the 129th Tirodhan Dibas observance of Baul Samrat Fakir Lalon Shah has come to an end. Under the slogan of Fakir Lalon Shah's spiritual saying - 'In Arshinagar near my home there dwells a neighbour' - the three-day Lalon Smarana Utsab held at the Lalon Akhrabari in Cheuria, Kumarkhali, Kushtia, on the occasion of the 129th Tirodhan Dibas, has concluded.
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Duddu Shah (born 1841; died 1911 AD) — after Lalon, Duddu Shah is famed in the Baul world as the most honoured of mahajans. The lines of his songs are counted as a commentary on Baul doctrine, and his role in the preaching and spread of the Baul ideology is of great importance.
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In his lifetime, fakir Lalon Shaiji would spend the whole night singing and playing music with his disciples in an open field on the night of Dol Purnima of the month of Falgun. In continuation of that tradition, the Lalan Academy still holds the three-day Lalan Memorial Festival every year on the night of Dol Purnima of the month of Falgun; but because of the holy month of Ramadan, the administration has this time relaxed everything.
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