Bauls - people of pure Love
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August 14, 2010
Today I will share one truth from the tradition of the Baul Mystics. The Vedic tradition has many living streams of enlightened Masters. Many streams have dried. The streams which have living enlightened Masters, an unbroken lineage of living enlightened Masters are Vedanta, Aghori, Tantra, and Bauls.
The Baul Mystics are not well known as a mainstream tradition, just because of their habit of not having property. They are not centered in one place. Otherwise, they have all the qualifications to be respected as a living stream of enlightened Masters.
The Bauls have a strong feeling that the moment you start staying in one place, the corruption starts happening. They say NO to social hypocrisy, which keeps you away from enlightenment.
The main theme which runs
through the Baul tradition is pure
love toward everything that
exists: to the river, hill, sun,
moon, plants, tree, animals, and
to themselves.
Whatever exists, they flood it with love.
That is why they are not socially
accepted - because they are such
a joyful species!
I can say Bauls are actually a different species altogether; one of the most endangered species on planet Earth. Bauls are literally like butterflies. They happen, fly, spread color and then just disappear. Nothing else.
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