More than a hundred songs by Pagla Kanai have so far been collected, edited and published. Rabindranath collected and published the songs of Lalon and gagan harkara. His disciples also composed hundreds of songs. The number of Lalon's songs is from 2,000 to 2,500. They also followed Lalon and composed many Baul songs. Some of his prominent disciples are Duddu Xhah, Pabju Shah and pagla kanai.

Later on, Lalon's songs were collected from his disciples and disciples' disciples. He composed Baul songs for himself and for his disciples to sing. He initiated many disciples and disciples' disciples and thus organised the Baul community. He had his hermitage in the village of Chheuria in Kushtia and died there after living and practicing his ascetic austerities in Chheuria for a long time. He was born in the village of Bharra in kushtia, and according to another view in the village of Horixhpur in Jexxore district in present-day Bangladesh. Lalon Shah (1774-1890) is the author of Baul song.

The doctrine of the spirit is concerned with the preparation of the mind, that of body with the rules of devotion, that of guru with the devotion to the guru, that of creation with the mystery of creation and existence of life, and that of human with meeting with God. This is how, the following doctrines have become dominant in Baul music: the doctrines of spirit, body, guru, love, creation, human, etc. Baul music is largely concerned with body, spirit, God, guru, love and devotion, the mystery of creation and similar other issues. The Bauls have to be initiated by a guru and perform many rites and rituals to acquire spiritual attainments or salvation. The body-centric religious practice of the Bauls is reliant on a guru. This meeting is possible through the love or devotion of the individual soul. So the main objective of celebrating the body is to facilitate the meeting of human soul with God. They believe that God inhabits in the human body. They address God in symbolic terms, such as: human, lover or beloved, the unknown bird, Manuray, etc. They try to find God by practicing the doctrine of dehotattwa (belief that body is the seat of all truths). They celebrate their religious occasions – both formal and informal – such as, religious gatherings and festivals and mendicancy by singing music. The Bauls regard their songs as part and parcel of their religion. The Bauls express their religious doctrine, philosophy, view of life and their beliefs through literature, in the language of music. It does not have any written literature or scripture. This is known as the Baul religious tenet. They nourish one kind of worldly religious tenet that formed on the basis of the essence of the body (the doctrine that the body is the seat of all truths) and on the knowledge about God. Baul Song is the mystical song of the Baul religious community.

Baul song video