Fakir Lalon Shah (c.1774–1890), the master Baul of Bengal
Lalon Shah was born somewhere in rural Bengal, in 1774. His place of birth and the identity of his parents or their religion are unknown. Around the age of sixteen he was found floating by the bank of Kaliganga River, suffering from smallpox, which resulted in his losing one eye. He was saved by Seraj Shah and his wife Matijan, who also brought him up. Lalon has always praised Seraj Shah through his songs by giving him the same respect as Shnai. Infact in his later years Lalon signed Seraj as his father in a legal document.
He lived in the village of Cheuriya which now falls in Kushtiya district in Bangladesh; but like Rabindranath Tagore, he is one of the few people whom a mere political boundary cannot take away from his lovers and admirers in “Indian” Bengal . Lalon was neither a follower of Islam nor Hinduism. What he truly followed was a mixture of the postulates and philosophies from both these religions and very truly. “He was none of these so he was both”. In the long course of his life he attracted a large number of followers, both Hindus as well as Muslims, mainly from the then demarcated lower strata of the society through his songs of universal equality and Dehatatwa.
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Lalon always kept silent about his origin so that he does not get typecast into any particular religious group. He was observant of the social conditions around, and this reflects through his songs which spoke of day to day problems, in his simple yet deeply moving language. It is said that he had composed about 10,000 songs of which 2000-3000 can be tracked down today while others are lost in time and hearts of his numerous followers. Most of his followers could not read or write and so unluckily for the lovers of Baul, very few of his songs are found in written form. Lalon had no formal education as such but his songs can educate the most educated of minds throughout the world. Long before free thinkers around the globe started thinking of a classless society, Lalon had already composed around 1000 songs on that theme.
part 1 http://www.mediafire.com/?66rclj9mj381mj8Lalon Shah was born somewhere in rural Bengal, in 1774. His place of birth and the identity of his parents or their religion are unknown. Around the age of sixteen he was found floating by the bank of Kaliganga River, suffering from smallpox, which resulted in his losing one eye. He was saved by Seraj Shah and his wife Matijan, who also brought him up. Lalon has always praised Seraj Shah through his songs by giving him the same respect as Shnai. Infact in his later years Lalon signed Seraj as his father in a legal document.
He lived in the village of Cheuriya which now falls in Kushtiya district in Bangladesh; but like Rabindranath Tagore, he is one of the few people whom a mere political boundary cannot take away from his lovers and admirers in “Indian” Bengal . Lalon was neither a follower of Islam nor Hinduism. What he truly followed was a mixture of the postulates and philosophies from both these religions and very truly. “He was none of these so he was both”. In the long course of his life he attracted a large number of followers, both Hindus as well as Muslims, mainly from the then demarcated lower strata of the society through his songs of universal equality and Dehatatwa.
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Lalon always kept silent about his origin so that he does not get typecast into any particular religious group. He was observant of the social conditions around, and this reflects through his songs which spoke of day to day problems, in his simple yet deeply moving language. It is said that he had composed about 10,000 songs of which 2000-3000 can be tracked down today while others are lost in time and hearts of his numerous followers. Most of his followers could not read or write and so unluckily for the lovers of Baul, very few of his songs are found in written form. Lalon had no formal education as such but his songs can educate the most educated of minds throughout the world. Long before free thinkers around the globe started thinking of a classless society, Lalon had already composed around 1000 songs on that theme.
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