West Bengal is not only a land on a map — it is a living poem.
The culture of West Bengal breathes in every song of the Baul, every stroke of an artist’s brush, every ritual that greets the dawn and blesses the harvest.
His Holiness Sohamm Babajee walks among these timeless threads, preserving what is fragile, protecting what is sacred and carrying the Legacy of West Bengal into the light of the future.
Through His care, the colours of Bengal do not fade — they deepen.
The songs are not lost — they are sung anew.
In His work, the world is reminded that any culture is not only a memory, it is a heartbeat — that must be cherished, so it may keep on beating for generations to come.
His Missions show that culture is not a relic of the past — but a living treasure for the next generation.
Like every culture, the Traditions of West Bengal need to be cherished, protected and shared with the world.
Cultural Restoration through Spiritual Ecology
His Holiness Sohamm Babajee supports the socio-economic upliftment of the Traditional Cultural communities of India, especially West Bengal.
He provides platforms for performance, shelter, sustainability and restores dignity to the people, historically sidelined by mainstream society.
His work ensures that the Traditional Culture is not only preserved as an archive but thrives as a living, breathing and spiritually vibrant force for humanity.
Through His dedicated Missions, Babajee not only safeguards a Mystical Legacy but also revives the Timeless Traditions of India with it's global spiritual relevance; echoing around the World.
Reviving the Living and Spiritual Heritage of West Bengal
The Sohamm Babajee Missions Eco-Temple Village is a Spiritual Sanctuary, envisioned and established by His Holiness Sohamm Babajee to revive the Living and Spiritual Heritage of West Bengal. Deeply rooted in West Bengal’s Mystic soil, Babajee enriches the Eco-Temple Village with the region’s devotional traditions, artistic expressions and Spiritual practices.
Sohamm Babajee has created more than an Eco-Temple Village. He is anchoring West Bengal’s cultural richness into a holistic, sustainable and spiritual living environment because there are many traditional systems in West Bengal that are slowly disappearing from the rich Bengali Culture.
Babajee has cultivated a Spiritual ecosystem where tradition, ecology and the Divinity merge in harmony. The Alpona floor designs, handmade clay idols, Baul songs, dance and folk instruments like the Ektara, Dotara, Khamakh and Khol, are all integrated into the spiritual essence of the Eco-Temple Village Billamangal Dhaam. Babajee ensures that these aspects of the rural tradition of West Bengal are not displayed as museum relics; rather they are alive, vivid and sacred.
One of Babajee’s most significant contributions lies in His effort to preserve dying out remote traditional practices. He brings together traditional Bengali artisans, musicians and ritual practitioners, offering them a permanent sacred platform.
Under His leadership, seasonal festivals based on Bengali Lunar calendars are celebrated with reverence and authenticity, allowing ancient ceremonies to flourish once more in their natural, earth-bound beauty.
Babajee’s initiative goes beyond cultural revival — it is a form of Spiritual empowerment and Global acceptance. Most of the Artisans and Experts come from socially and economically underprivileged, forgotten communities. He inspires them to be wholeheartedly involved in the Billamangal Dhaam for their Spiritual Upliftment.
Through Babajee's support, they receive not only dignified livelihoods but also a renewed sense of sacred purpose in their life. Babajee’s work ensures that the sacred expressions of West Bengal continue to nourish the Soul of Humanity — not only within West Bengal, India, but across the world.
In the Eco-Temple Village of Sohamm Babajee, West Bengal’s artistic and spiritual traditions are no longer fading memories — they have become the vibrant forces of inspiration, healing, education and devotion.
Alpona
Alpona (আলপনা) is a sacred and graceful ritual art of West Bengal, where the floor becomes an altar and each line a prayer. The word Alpona is derived from the Sanskrit word Alimpana, meaning “to coat or to plaster.”
Alpona is made with a simple paste of rice flour and water. Drawn by hand at dawn before festivals such as Lakshmi Puja, Nabanna, Durga Puja, Poush Parbon, Jamai-Sasthi and Weddings.
More than decoration, Alpona is a visual mantra — an act of devotion where art turns into prayer and the earth itself becomes Divine.
In the Eco-Temple Village, Alpona is intermingled into daily life as a silent hymn to beauty and presence. Young women kneel down with reverence, inspired by the common symbols in Alpona : their movements slow and moonlike.
Each curve of the creative patterns in Alpona (e.g. lotuses, conch shells, rice grains, feet of Goddess Lakshmi, owls and mandala-like spirals) whisper remembrance and awaken the sacred.
After Satsang, Babajee’s silent grace fills the space. He walks barefoot across the fresh Alpona. His Lotus feet dusted with rice paste — leaving behind new mandalas, circles within circles where the Divine becomes visible upon the ground.
Arandhan
Arandhan, meaning “no cooking,” is a Sacred Bengali Ritual Day when the kitchen fire is left unlit. This day is a symbol of reverence, simplicity and inner silence.
Arandhan is commonly observed during Rishi Panchami, the second day after Lakshmi Puja, in the month of Bhadra or Ashwin (August–October).
In the Eco-Temple Village, under the Divine guidance of
His Holiness Sohamm Babajee, Arandhan becomes an inward pilgrimage — the day when the flame rests and the Soul awakens.
On the eve before, villagers lovingly prepare sattvic meals of rice, greens, milk and jaggery, infused with mantras and offered to the foremothers and Mother Earth.
Arandhan is not just about skipping the fire — it is about letting go of control, surrendering the need to "do" and instead entering a space of being.
Walking the Path of the Ancestors, it is a reminder — that not every act of nourishment comes from the flame of the fire, sometimes the act of nourishment even comes from silence…
Dhenki
The Dhenki (ঢেঁকি) is a traditional wooden, lever-based rice-pounding device once central to rural life in Bengal and neighbouring regions like Odisha, Assam and Jharkhand.
In the Eco-Temple Village at Billamangal Dhaam,
Babajee has revived the Dhenki not merely as a relic, but as a living altar of sacred rhythm and remembrance. Here, the act of pounding rice becomes worship and transformation.
The Dhenki embodies harmony between humanity and nature, empowering rural women and artisans, while preserving ancestral wisdom.
Through this simple tool, Babajee highlights the importance of sustainable living. He has provided a platform for the rural artisans and farmers who traditionally operated the Dhenki, ensuring that their skills are passed on to future generations.
Its repetitive, rhythmic sound is seen as a domestic mantra, echoing through villages like the heartbeat of abundance…
Gorur Gari (Bullock Cart)
Gorur Gari (গরুরগাড়ি) or the Bullock Cart, is a traditional, symbolic mode of transport in rural areas of West Bengal and across India. It represents the simplicity and sustainability of agricultural based life.
Literally meaning “Bullock’s Cart” (“Gorur” = of the bull, “Gari” = vehicle), it is a wooden, two-wheeled cart pulled by two Oxen or two Buffaloes.
The Gorur Gari is preserved as a living heritage and sacred eco-symbol of harmony. This “tradition with wheels — a prayer in motion” is reminding devotees to move with the Earth, not against it.
Jamai-Sasthi
Jamai-Sasthi (literally “Son-in-law’s Sixth Day”) is derived from “Jamai,” meaning son-in-law and “Sasthi,” - meaning the sixth day of the lunar fortnight. It is a traditional Bengali festival celebrated on the sixth day of the bright half of the month of Jyeshtha (May–June).
Jamai- Sasthi is dedicated to Goddess Sasthi, the divine protector of children and family welfare. It is a joyous occasion where mothers-in-law honour their sons-in-law with blessings, rituals and lavish feasts featuring Bengali delicacies like hilsa (fish), sweets and seasonal fruits.
In the Eco-Temple Village, Jamai-Sasthi transcends its cultural form to become a sacred expression of intergenerational love and dharmic connection.
Here, sons-in-law are welcomed, not merely as guests, but as carriers of family karma and grace. Remembering that even a simple act of feeding another human being, can become a prayer of love and oneness with the Divine.
Morai
The word "Morai" (মোড়াই or মোড়ই) can refer to a designated space in the home or village where harvested grains are gathered, stored or worshipped.
As a storage place or a shrine, Morai reflects the spirit of grounded sanctity — a reminder that the sacred does not always sit on gold or marble. It sits where Earth, ritual and humility meet. The Morai stands as a storehouse of nourishment and Soul, where grain sleeps in silence and grace keeps watch.
In the Eco-Temple Village, the Morai is a quiet shrine of earth, bamboo and memory; a place where the first grains of harvest rest like a sleeping prayer. Built low to the ground, open to all, it is neither locked nor guarded, yet it holds the most precious wealth of the land — grain blessed by grace.
Formed of bamboo, paddy straw and mud — it teaches humility. Touched by all — it teaches unity, peace and devotion. In its simplicity, lies the eternal rhythm of life — the meeting of earth, labor and gratitude.
Nabanna
Nabanna (নবান্ন) is the festival of the new rice, celebrated primarily in West Bengal, Assam, Odisha and parts of Bangladesh.
Nabanna is the Soul of agrarian Bengal, the time when the Earth breathes abundance and gratitude fills every home.
Nabanna is derived from “Naba” (new) and “Anna” (grain), it marks the harvest of the season’s first rice.
This rice is first offered to the Divine, before it touches human lips; giving thanks to Mother Earth, the sun, the rain and the ancestors — a celebration of fertility, renewal and grace.
In the Eco-Temple Village, Billamangal Dhaam, under the gentle guidance of Babajee, Nabanna is not just a festival but a living prayer.
The first grain is not harvested in haste but invited with reverence.
In silence, Babajee blesses the grain, awakening its hidden energy into Divine nourishment.
The Payesh prepared is not just dessert but Prasād, stirred with Mantra and shared in gratitude.
In this sacred rhythm of Earth and Spirit, Nabanna becomes a return to essence — where the true harvest is humility, the true offering is devotion and the true festival is when Soil and Soul are one.
Palui
The word “Palui” (পালুই) carries deep agricultural and spiritual meaning in rural Bengal, rooted in the traditions of rice farming and harvest rituals.
A Palui refers to a modest pile of rice stalks after collecting the grains.
In the open arms of the Eco‑Temple Village, under the grace of His Holiness Sohamm Babajee, the first Palui is gathered at dawn when dew glistens like blessings.
The dry rice straws of the Palui are sustainably utilized for a variety of purposes — as eco-friendly building materials, roofing for houses, the crafting of deity idols, horticultural and agricultural applications and as nutritious fodder for cattle.
Though forgotten in mechanised fields, the Palui lives on in this sacred village — not as a ritual of the past, but as a rhythm of gratitude reborn.
Poila-Baishak
Poila Boishakh (পয়লাবৈশাখ) or Shubho Noboborsho (শুভনববর্ষ) is the Bengali New Year.
“Poila” means first and “Boishakh” means the first Bengali month of the year; together it means the first day of the first month of the new year.
Poila Boishakh is not just a date — it is a call to cleanse the mind, renew one’s path and begin the year with truth and simplicity.
On this day, homes are washed with turmeric water, doors adorned with alpona and flowers, hearts opened with greetings of “Shubho Noboborsho!”.
In the Eco-Temple Village, Billamangal Dhaam, under the silent grace of His Holiness Sohamm Babajee, Poila Boishakh is not celebrated just as a Festival but as the Day for renewal of consciousness.
At dawn, devotees sweep the paths with neem leaves, paint thresholds with sacred motifs and gather under the banyan tree where Babajee blesses His disciples and devotees, distributes clothes and offers Bhandara — the auspicious food. Everybody in the Eco-Temple Village celebrates the new year with His Presence.
On this auspicious day, the Executive Committee of the
Eco-Temple Village organises Kirtan, Bhajan and Baul Songs to enthral the people.
Pous-Parvan
Pous Parvan (পৌষপর্ব) the sacred winter festival of Bengal in the month of Poush, the ninth month of the Bengali calendar (mid-December to mid-January).
It is a festival of harvest and gratitude, when rice, jaggery, sesame and song come together.
Homes fill with the fragrance of "Poush-er Pithe", a variety of traditional rice cakes such as : Patisapta, Dudh Puli, Bhapa Pithe and Gokul Pithe — made from freshly ground rice, coconut and date-palm jaggery as symbols of devotion and sharing.
Every year, the Executive Committee hosts "Pous Parvan" in the holy premises of the Eco-Temple Village.
Here, the entire Festival becomes the most joyful community celebration wherein all the people are warmed by Baul Songs, dance, firelight and handmade crafts.
The Festival reminding all — that in winter’s chill, hearts can still be full of spring.
When the "Self meets the Soul" — happens Pous Parvan.
